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Curling robot able to beat some professional players
A combined team of researchers from Korea and Germany has built an AI-based curling robot that is able to compete at a professional level. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes how ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Robotics firm expands autonomous data collection drones from sea to air
Back in 2013, local Brooklyn papers were excitedly reporting on a new initiative aimed at getting residents involved in cleaning up the highly polluted Gowanus Canal. Brooklyn Atlantis, as the project was known, was the brainchild ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Guiding light: New technology puts a light-painting drone at your fingertips
Skoltech researchers have designed and developed an interface that allows a user to direct a small drone to light-paint patterns or letters through hand gestures. The new interface, DroneLight, can be used in distant communications, ...
Sep 23, 2020
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A three-agent robotic system for Mars exploration
Mars, also known as the red planet, has been the focus of numerous research studies, as some of its characteristics have sparked discussions about its possible inhabitability. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
Sep 22, 2020
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PufferBot: A flying robot with an expandable body
Researchers at University of Colorado Boulder's ATLAS Institute and University of Calgary have recently developed an actuated, expandable structure that can be used to fabricate shape-changing aerial robots. In a paper set ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Japanese grocery chain testing remotely controlled robot stockers
Japanese grocery chain FamilyMart has teamed up with Tokyo startup Telexistence to test the idea of using a remotely controlled shelf stocking robot named the Model-T to restock grocery shelves. On its website, Telexistence ...
Sep 21, 2020 report
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Helping robots avoid collisions
George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics.
Sep 18, 2020
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Medical robotic hand? Rubbery semiconductor makes it possible
A medical robotic hand could allow doctors to more accurately diagnose and treat people from halfway around the world, but currently available technologies aren't good enough to match the in-person experience.
Sep 16, 2020
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AI Robots serve restaurant customers in South Korea
A burger shop in the South Korean capital is a bit different from typical fast food restaurants: Its key staff are robots.
Sep 15, 2020
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Enabling remote whole-body control with 5G edge computing
There are many real-world—and, someday, off-world—applications for light-weight, energy-efficient, fully autonomous robots. Yet the more autonomous a robot is, the greater its computational requirements. Onboarding the ...
Sep 15, 2020
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Experiments reveal why human-like robots elicit uncanny feelings
Androids, or robots with humanlike features, are often more appealing to people than those that resemble machines—but only up to a certain point. Many people experience an uneasy feeling in response to robots that are nearly ...
Sep 10, 2020
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A robot that controls highly flexible tools
How do you calculate the coordinated movements of two robot arms so they can accurately guide a highly flexible tool? ETH researchers have integrated all aspects of the optimisation calculations into an algorithm. A hot-wire ...
Sep 08, 2020
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A technique allows robots to determine whether they are able to lift a heavy box
Humanoid robots, those with bodies that resemble humans, could soon help people to complete a wide variety of tasks. Many of the tasks that these robots are designed to complete involve picking up objects of different shapes, ...
Sep 07, 2020 feature
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Eyes on the world: Drones change our point of view and our truths
Drones have changed how we see the world. Even more profoundly, drones have transformed how we witness the world: how we decide the events that matter and create our shared "truth" of what happened.
Sep 07, 2020
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New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin
Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.
Sep 01, 2020
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