ROBODAILY

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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Giving robots better moves
Jul 01, 2021 (SPX)
That's what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which combine unique gripper designs with artificial intelli...
Northrop Grumman building 'Justified Confidence' for Integrated Artificial Intelligence Systems
Jun 29, 2021 (SPX)
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's (NSCAI) Final Report highlights emerging consensus on the principles for using AI ethically and re...
Japan's SoftBank suspends production of chatty robot Pepper
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Pepper robots, used to greet people in stores and hotels in Japan and around the world, have become a symbol of SoftBank's strategy of pouring resources into ne...
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