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Hi, Robot: Japan's android pets ease virus isolation
Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)
Smart home assistants such as Amazon's Alexa have found success worldwide, but tech firms in Japan are reporting huge demand for more humanlike alternatives, as...
Chatty robot Franzi cheers up German patients
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
"Can you move out the way, please? I need to clean," trills the robot in German when people block her pre-programmed cleaning route. "You need to move! I really...
This robot doesn't need any electronics
Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)
The team, led by Michael T. Tolley, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, details its findings in the Feb. ...
Robots sense human touch using camera and shadows
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
The group's paper, "ShadowSense: Detecting Human Touch in a Social Robot Using Shadow Image Classification," published in the Proceedings of the Association for...
Collective worm and robot 'blobs' protect individuals, swarm together
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
While other organisms form collective flocks, schools, or swarms for such purposes as mating, predation, and protection, the Lumbriculus variegatus worms are un...
Emerging robotics technology may lead to better buildings in less time
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
Purdue University innovators developed and are testing a novel construction robotic system that uses an innovative mechanical design with advances in computer v...
How modern robots are developed
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Robots are interesting to neuroscience and neuroscience is interesting to robots - this is what the article 'Neuroengineering challenges of fusing robotics and ...
Machine-learning program imagines a protein's many possible structures
Feb 04, 2021 (UPI)
Unfortunately, many proteins can assume a variety of shapes, complicating bio-molecular surveys. Thanks to a new machine-learning algorithm, however, scientists...
Artificial skin brings robots closer to 'touching' human lives
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Robots have come a long way since their original inception for high-speed automation. Today, robots can be found in a wide variety of roles in medicine, rehabil...
New AI system uses radio signals to detect a person's emotions
Feb 03, 2021 (UPI)
The novel system -- described in a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One -- can identify heart rate and breathing patterns associated with ange...
AI startup Databricks valued at $28 bn, tech giants join funding
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
The startup, which develops technology that delivers improved analytics to cloud computing platforms, has some 5,000 customers, including 40 percent of Fortune ...
Motiv Space Systems and JPL to develop robotic arm for extreme cold environments
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
COLDArm (short for Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm) is a vital component of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) a NASA program to send small robotic...
How will seafarers fare once automated ships take over
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
The maritime shipping industry is no different. Ships are now increasingly automated (called maritime autonomous surface ships or MASSs), reducing the need for ...
US leading race in artificial intelligence, China rising: survey
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
The study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation assessed AI using 30 separate metrics including human talent, research activity, commercial de...
AI: ensuring that humans remain in the center
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
Energy transition, declining income, increasing competitive pressure: The energy sector is facing big challenges. Companies of this branch are working in a comp...
Squid-inspired robot swims with nature's most efficient marine animals
Jan 21, 2021 (SPX)
The findings, published in Science Robotics, demonstrate that the new underwater robot can swim as quickly and efficiently as the squid and jellyfish which insp...
Designing customized brains for robots
Jan 21, 2021 (SPX)
Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from...
Teams crack code, qualify for final stage of NASA Space Robotics
Jan 18, 2021 (SPX)
Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge, a NASA Centennial Challenge, is a $1 million prize competition to advance autonomous robotic operations for space explo...
Using light to revolutionize artificial intelligence
Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)
Artificial neural networks, layers of interconnected artificial neurons, are of great interest for machine learning tasks such as speech recognition and medical...
Pandemic's robot 'heroes' highlight their value at tech show
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
The Consumer Electronics Show, which is being held online this year due to the global crisis, includes robots that have become "heroes" for many during the coro...
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