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Our favorite jumping robot is hoping for a trip to Saturn’s icy moon
Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots
Wandercraft's pioneering exoskeleton, the Atlante X, has entered a rehabilitation trial in Germany.
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.
For elderly Americans, social isolation is especially perilous. Will machine companions fill the void?
In 1970 robotics professor Masahiro Mori observed, "Bbukimi no tani genshō," which was later translated into "uncanny valley". This refers to an observed phenomenon (first in robots, but also applies to digital recreations) that the more human-like the robot the greater the emotional affinity of people. However, as imitation approaches complete imitation it takes a
The startup Realtime Robotics, co-founded by former MIT postdoc George Konidaris, is helping robots solve the motion planning problem by giving them collision avoidance capabilities.
Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually 20-years away -more…
New approach to meta-reinforcement learning minimizes the need for costly interactions with the environment.
CMU and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to create an autonomous trauma care system that fits in a backpack — or, as shown here, a folded stretcher.
An innovation you'd completely expect from a Hollywood spy flick, Rolls-Royce has designed tiny robots called SWARM that get deployed within their jet engines to run reconnaissance and inspections. A part of RR's IntelligentEngine program, the SWARM get deployed into intricate parts of the engine, giving engineers real-time feedback on performance, wear-tear, etc. The visual
Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines that succeed in failing. In her TED talk, Giertz talks about her path from “useless” things to e…
How the best robot, "Little Sunfish," helped Japanese scientists understand the scope of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.