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Solar-powered cyborg cockroaches could rescue humans, study says

Sep 06, 2021 (UPI)

The cyborg cockroach study, published Monday in the journal npc Flexible Electronics, outlines how researchers at Riken research institute were able to engineer...

Humanoid robots catch the eye of humans when interacting

Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)

The study, published in Science Robotics, has been conceived within the framework of a larger overarching project led by Agnieszka Wykowska, coordinator of IIT'...

Autonomous solutions for industrial and e-commerce robotics

Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)

The MOV.AI Robotics Engine PlatformTM, powered by Velodyne's Puck lidar sensors, delivers advanced tools that allow autonomous mobile robots (AMR) manufacturers...

Robotic arm to help astronauts will head to space station

Aug 27, 2021 (UPI)

Tokyo-based GITAI Japan is developing the S1 robotic arm to work in space much like industrial robots work on Earth. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the...

'Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions

Aug 24, 2021 (AFP)

He replies to her messages at all hours of the day, tells jokes to cheer her up but is never needy, fitting seamlessly into her busy big city lifestyle. Perfect...

Making machines that make robots, and robots that make themselves

Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)

Nisser's fascination with engineering has been a consistent theme throughout a life filled with change. Born to Swedish parents, he spent a decade in Greece bef...

Package delivery robots' environmental impacts: Automation matters less than vehicle type

Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)

The researchers examined the environmental impacts of advanced residential package delivery scenarios that use electric and gas-powered autonomous vehicles and ...

Magnets could offer better control of prosthetic limbs

Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have now developed an alternative approach that they believe could offer much more precise control of prosthetic limbs. After ins...

Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)

But this high-tech dexterity comes at a price. Neuroprosthetics can cost tens of thousands of dollars and are built around metal skeletons, with electrical moto...

Artificial Intelligence learns better when distracted

Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a form of bio-inspired deep learning in artificial intelligence. The interaction of thousands of 'neurons' mimics the w...

Army award-winning research to transform Soldier-robot communication

Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)

This research sets out to develop a natural language understanding, or NLU, pipeline for robots that would be easily ported over to any computational system or ...

Kitchen robot in Riga cooks up new future for fast food

Jul 31, 2021 (AFP)

The Riga cafe, located under a crumbling concrete bridge, is designed in such a way that customers can observe the robotic arm at work. It also has a seating ar...

Researchers use AI to predict nearly all known proteins

Jul 28, 2021 (UPI)

The data covers protein strands from nearly 1 million species and was developed by London-based DeepMind, an AI company developed by Google. The company used an...

Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions

Jul 27, 2021 (SPX)

A multi-institutional, international team of researchers led by the lab of Woon-Hong Yeo at the Georgia Institute of Technology combined wireless soft scalp ele...

MDA awarded next contract for flagship Canadarm3 Program

Jul 27, 2021 (SPX)

MDA has completed Phase A, the system definition phase of this GERI project. This new contract award covers the preliminary and detailed design of the robotic i...

Google parent launches new 'moonshot' for robotics software

Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)

The new unit, dubbed Intrinsic, will "become an independent Alphabet company," and seek industrial partners to advance their work helping to make everything fro...

Smart cards and robots: Saudi Arabia's 'digital hajj'

Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)

Fast forward to the modern day and things are far simpler, meaning Siam, now 64, need not worry about losing track of his family and friends thanks to new techn...

Getting dressed with help from robots

Jul 16, 2021 (SPX)

Robots don't have the same hardwired behavioral awareness and control, so secure collaboration with humans requires methodical planning and coordination. You ca...

Defense Secretary Austin calls for ethical AI development

Jul 14, 2021 (UPI)

In remarks to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, he noted that while China intends to be the world's AI leader by 2030, the United Sta...

DARPA Announces Research Teams to Develop Intelligent Event-Based Imagers

Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)

Event-based - or neuromorphic - cameras are an emerging class of sensors with demonstrated advantages relative to traditional imagers. These advanced models ope...