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Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients' vital signs
Sep 01, 2020 (SPX)
The robots, which are controlled by a handheld device, can also carry a tablet that allows doctors to ask patients about their symptoms without being in the sam...
Toward a machine learning model that can reason about everyday actions
Sep 01, 2020 (SPX)
Organizing the world into abstract categories does not come easily to computers, but in recent years researchers have inched closer by training machine learning...
AlphaDogfight trials foreshadow future of human-machine symbiosis
Aug 27, 2020 (SPX)
Heron Systems' F-16 AI agent defeated seven other companies' F-16 AI agents and then went on to dominate the main event - a series of simulated dogfights agains...
Human Rights Watch eyes treaty banning 'killer robots'
Aug 10, 2020 (AFP)
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said 30 countries are now explicitly seeking a ban, after compiling an overview of 97 nations with a stated position on ...
Subterranean Challenge pivots to all-virtual competition for cave circuit
Jul 28, 2020 (SPX)
DARPA has made the difficult decision to proceed only with the Virtual Competition for the Cave Circuit, due to safety considerations surrounding COVID-19. The ...
Russia to create several space robots
Jul 28, 2020 (Sputnik)
"We will be producing two or three copies of Teledroid: the final one, which will go to space, its exact copy, which will stay on Earth, and several intermediat...
NUS researchers gives robots intelligent sensing abilities to carry out complex tasks
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
A team of computer scientists and materials engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently demonstrated an exciting approach to make rob...
Robot hotel gets its occupants
Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)
On Dec. 5, 2019, a protective storage unit for robotic tools called Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) was among the items launched to station as part of SpaceX's 19th...
AI robots for power network put into service in North China
Jul 16, 2020 (XNA)
The robots, developed by the State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company, are driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies including 3D reconstruction of t...
Alexa, go to the kitchen and fetch me a snack
Jul 16, 2020 (SPX)
To carry out such high-level tasks, researchers believe robots will have to be able to perceive their physical environment as humans do. "In order to make any d...
Amid reckoning on police racism, algorithm bias in focus
Jul 05, 2020 (AFP)
While the protests have focused on police misconduct, activists point out flaws that may lead to unfair applications of technologies for law enforcement, includ...
DLR and Mozilla are researching technologies for voice control of robots
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
In future, this technology could also be used by astronauts to command lunar rovers or other robotic systems. DLR has teamed up with the Mozilla Corporation to ...
Coordinating complex behaviors between hundreds of robots
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
In a building several stories tall with numerous rooms, hundreds of obstacles and thousands of places to inspect, the several dozen robots move as one cohesive ...
New jellyfish robots can outswim their inspiration
Jul 02, 2020 (UPI)
The jellyfish robots, described this week in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, were engineered with pre-stressed polymers, a new method that lends st...
Fugro partners with Australian Space Agency on new robotics control complex
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
Benefitting from additional funding support from the WA State Government, the new complex will support start-ups, small businesses and researchers in controllin...
This Hopping Robot Could Explore the Solar System's Icy Moons
Jun 25, 2020 (JPL)
A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy t...
Researchers discover unique material design for brain-like computations
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory say this may be changing as they endeavor to design computers in...
New control technique could improve accuracy of industrial robots
Jun 11, 2020 (SPX)
Most people will be familiar with 'feedback', where a machine such as a thermostat corrects itself after observing an error in performance: once the temperature...
Robot dog hounds Thai shoppers to keep hands virus-free
Jun 04, 2020 (AFP)
The hi-tech hound is controlled using 5G, a technology promising super-fast internet speeds with immediate reaction times that is still in the initial stages of...
Next-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can perform almost all of the feats of its larger-scale predecessor, making it one of the most dexterous microrobots to date....
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