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Inspecting a damaged building after an earthquake or during a fire is exactly the kind of job that human rescuers would like drones to do for them. A flying robot could look for people trapped inside and guide the rescue ...
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In recent years, an entirely new class of robot—inspired by natural forms and built using soft, flexible elastomers—has taken the field by storm, with designs capable of gripping objects, walking, and even jumping.
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Researchers at Pennsylvania State University, MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology have recently developed a conceptual framework to model the human-robot trust phenomenon. Their framework, outlined in a paper published ...
Dec 06, 2018 feature
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The rapid growth of logistics businesses has generated a need for more evolved and efficient warehouse systems. Advances in robotics could help to meet these needs by automating tasks that are currently completed by humans, ...
Dec 05, 2018 feature
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Communication is key for any team trying to collaboratively complete a task, whether it is comprised of people or autonomous robots. But while people can use intuition and experience to manage unforeseen circumstances, a ...
Dec 05, 2018
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A team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab built a cyborg that combines a plant with electronics and ultimately allows the plant to choose when it would like to move to a brighter spot. The cyborg is the brainchild of team ...
Dec 05, 2018 report
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So far, robots have primarily been developed to fulfill utilitarian purposes, assisting humans or serving as tools to facilitate the completion of particular tasks. As robots become more human-like, however, this could pose ...
Dec 03, 2018 feature
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Good things happen when Toyota cozies up to the next generation 5G technology. The news is not about self-driving cars but rather another "tomorrow" topic, in the name of robotics. Toyota has turned to 5G to remotely control ...
Dec 02, 2018 weblog
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Researchers at the Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory (The Magic Lab) of the University of Technology Sydney have proposed a new robotics architecture called fog robotics (FR). Their approach, outlined in a paper ...
Nov 30, 2018 feature
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Swimming is a form of locomotion employed by many organisms across a wide range of scales in nature. Microorganisms with small mass that encounter dominance of viscous forces in the medium require a change in shape that does ...
Nov 28, 2018 feature
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