Robots can be used to assess children's mental well-being, study suggests
Robots can be better at detecting mental well-being issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.
Aug 31, 2022
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How a slender, snake-like robot could give doctors new ways to save lives
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, for use in ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Scientists craft living human skin for robots
From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today's robotic innovations. It's still a long way until ...
Jun 9, 2022
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Visiting the Venice Biennale exhibition remotely with the iCub3 robot
Over the past few decades, technological advances have opened new and exciting possibilities for both remote tourism and the teleoperation of robotic systems. This allowed computer scientists to develop increasingly sophisticated ...
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From remote tourism to metaverse, a new robotic avatar made in Italy
Feeling and moving in a place without being there is the main goal of the new iCub robot advanced telexistence system, also called the iCub3 avatar system, developed by researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Cyberdog and robo-barman: Spotted at Spain tech congress
Phone makers and telecoms firms unveiled a series of gadgets and innovations at one of the industry's biggest get-togethers this week in Barcelona.
Mar 4, 2022
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Moving toward the first flying humanoid robot
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have recently been exploring a fascinating idea, that of creating humanoid robots that can fly. To efficiently control the movements of flying robots, objects or vehicles, ...
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A wheeled car, quadruped and humanoid robot: Swiss-Mile Robot from ETH Zurich
A team at Swiss-Mile, a spinoff of ETH Zurich has improved upon its ANYmal robot by giving it wheels—the result is known as the Swiss-Mile Robot. And by giving it wheels, the robot is now classified as a car, a quadruped ...
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Social robots may be more persuasive if they project less authority
In the future, socially interactive robots could help seniors age in place or assist residents of long-term care facilities with their activities of daily living. But will people actually accept advice or instructions from ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Unease beyond the uncanny valley: How people react to the same faces
Increasingly, movies featuring humanoid robots, like Terminator or Ex Machina, are showing the titular "robot" akin to humans not only in intelligence but also appearance. What if Terminator-esque robots became the norm, ...
Aug 30, 2021
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