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Object recognition for robots
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
Giving robots a more nimble grasp
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an o...
Brain-controlled prosthesis nearly as good as one-finger typing
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
When we type or perform other precise tasks, our brains and muscles usually work together effortlessly. But when a neurological disease or spinal cord injury se...
Bio-inspired robots jump on water
Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)
By studying how water striders jump on water, Je-Sung Koh and colleagues have created a robot that can successfully launch itself from the surface of water. As ...
The growing fear of killer robot armies
Jul 29, 2015 (Sputnik)
Years of artificial intelligence (AI) gone wrong prompted more than a thousand scholars and public figures - including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Sp...
Tiny mechanical wrist gives new dexterity to needlescopic surgery
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
With the flick of a tiny mechanical wrist, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University's Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory hope to give ...
No sci-fi joke: 'killer robots' strike fear into tech leaders
Jul 28, 2015 (AFP)
It sounds like a science-fiction nightmare. But "killer robots" have the likes of British scientist Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak fretting,...
Software program recognises sketches more accurately than a human
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
Known as Sketch-a-Net, the program is capable of correctly identifying the subject of sketches 74.9 per cent of the time compared to humans that only managed a ...
US team beats Iranians in Robocup football final
Jul 22, 2015 (AFP)
A team of American humanoid robots defeated foes from Iran on Wednesday in the final of an annual football tournament for intelligent sporting machines held in ...
Scientist develops model for robots with bacteria-controlled brains
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
Forget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation -- as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is the next frontier. In a paper published in Scientif...
Hitchhiking robot begins journey across U.S.
Jul 18, 2015 (UPI)
Canada's first hitchhiking robot began its journey across the U.S. Friday and has already landed its first ride. HitchBOT, a bucket-shaped robot from Ontario, i...
Robots under test for oil and gas rig duty
Jul 14, 2015 (ESA)
A robot building on ESA's ExoMars rover is bidding to win a place on oil and gas production rigs around the world, to work in remote and hazardous environments....
Pinterest CEO sees site's future in its 'catalog of ideas'
Jul 14, 2015 (AFP)
Pinterest is not a social network but a "catalog of ideas" to help people discover and try new things in their lives, founder and chief executive Ben Silbermann...
3-D-printed robot is hard at heart, soft on the outside
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first robot with a 3D-printed body that transitions from a rigid c...
Hopping towards a better soft robot
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Traditional industrial robots are rigid - mostly metal - and are fast, precise and powerful. Their speed and precision comes at the cost of complexity and can o...
Advances in Robots Needed to Explore Icy Moons
Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)
In December 2013, researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced they had found evidence of a water plume emanating from Europa's surface. The finding e...
Elon Musk funds major research grants on dangers of artificial intelligence
Jul 07, 2015 (Sputnik)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have never been more quick in development - or more threatening, according to SpaceX founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon M...
Seahorse tails could inspire new generation of robots
Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)
Inspiration for the next big technological breakthrough in robotics, defense systems and biomedicine could come from a seahorse's tail, according to a new study...
Engineers develop micro-tentacles so tiny robots can handle delicate objects
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
The tiny tube circled an ant's thorax, gently trapping the insect and demonstrating the utility of a microrobotic tentacle developed by Iowa State University en...
IBM's Chef Watson shares his culinary artifcial intelligence
Jun 24, 2015 (UPI)
Watson is IBM's super-smart computer that out-competed human champion Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!. Chef Watson has the same artificial intelligence, but with a fo...
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