Why soft skills could power the rise of robot leaders
What would the world look like if socially skilled robots stepped into the roles normally reserved for humans?
Dec 3, 2020
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Robotics enter the COVID-19 fight
A decontamination robot funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and designed by several local universities was recently tested in Richmond Va. The robot—initially designed for shipboard firefighting and maintenance ...
Oct 19, 2020
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AIR-Act2Act: A dataset for training social robots to interact with the elderly
To interact with humans and assist them in their day-to-day life, robots should have both verbal and non-verbal communication capabilities. In other words, they should be able to understand both what a user is saying and ...
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Brain activity reveals individual attitudes toward humanoid robots
The way humans interpret the behavior of AI-endowed artificial agents, such as humanoid robots, depends on specific individual attitudes that can be detected from neural activity. Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ...
Sep 30, 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, ...
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A heuristic search algorithm to plan attacks in robotic football
Robots have gradually been making their way into a variety of fields and settings, including sports competitions. Robotic football, or soccer, is an innovative version of soccer in which human players are replaced by robots.
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From HAL 9000 to Westworld's Dolores: The pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants
Last year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on "Alexa" or "Siri." Now, with more time spent indoors due to COVID-19, smart voice assistants may be playing even bigger ...
Jun 22, 2020
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Teaching humanoid robots different locomotion behaviors using human demonstrations
In recent years, many research teams worldwide have been developing and evaluating techniques to enable different locomotion styles in legged robots. One way of training robots to walk like humans or animals is by having ...
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People think robots are pretty incompetent and not funny, new study says
Dang robots are crummy at so many jobs, and they tell lousy jokes to boot. In two new studies, these were common biases human participants held toward robots.
May 6, 2020
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'I'm cheering for you': Robot welcome at Tokyo quarantine
Coronavirus quarantine can be lonely, but at one Tokyo hotel converted to accept patients with mild symptoms, a humanoid robot will be there to offer support and encouragement—as well as admonishments and warnings.
May 1, 2020
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