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Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)

Bender is one of the robot arms that a team of Stanford researchers is using to test two frameworks that, together, could make it faster and easier to teach rob...

Elephant trunks form joints to pick up small objects

Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)

RIT scientist Scott Franklin collaborated with David Hu at Georgia Institute of Technology to understand how elephants apply force with their trunk to manipulat...

Small flying robots haul heavy loads

Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)

Developed in the labs of Mark Cutkosky, the Fletcher Jones Chair in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and Dario Floreano at the Ecole Polytechni...

How to mass produce cell-sized robots

Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)

The key to making such tiny devices in large quantities lies in a method the team developed for controlling the natural fracturing process of atomically-thin, b...

Understanding the building blocks for an electronic brain

Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)

University of Groningen (UG) physicists are working on memristors, resistors with a memory, made from niobium-doped strontium titanate, which mimic how neurons ...

Invention of ionic decision-maker capable of self-learning

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

This device is capable of making decisions while efficiently adapting to changing situations by a means unrelated to the storage of past experiences in computer...

Sound, vibration recognition boost context-aware computing

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

"A smart speaker sitting on a kitchen countertop cannot figure out if it is in a kitchen, let alone know what a person is doing in a kitchen," said Chris Harris...

Postman, shopper, builder: In Japan, there's a robot for that

Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)

Introducing CarriRo, a delivery robot shaped a bit like a toy London bus with bright, friendly "eyes" on its front that can zip around the streets delivering pa...

Teaching machines common sense reasoning

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

Defined as "the basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things that are shared by nearly all people and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people...

MIT unveils new $1 bn college for artificial intelligence

Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)

The prestigious university said it would add 50 new faculty members and create an interdisciplinary hub for work in computer science, AI, data science, and rela...

No more Iron Man: submarines now have soft, robotic arms

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

Previously, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and collaborators developed a range of soft robotic grippers to more ...

Model helps robots navigate more like humans do

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

MIT researchers have now devised a way to help robots navigate environments more like humans do. Their novel motion-planning model lets robots determine how to ...

Increasingly human-like robots spark fascination and fear

Oct 06, 2018 (AFP)

She and others like her are a prime focus of robotic research, as their uncanny human form could be key to integrating such machines into our lives, said resear...

Machine learning could help regulators identify environmental violations

Oct 01, 2018 (UPI)

The Environmental Protection Agency and partnering state agencies are responsible for monitoring the regulatory compliance of 300,000 facilities. Regulators, ho...

Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once

Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)

Unlike current speech-recognition technologies, the model doesn't require manual transcriptions and annotations of the examples it's trained on. Instead, it lea...

Spray coated tactile sensor on a 3D surface for robotic skin

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

The solution-based process is easily scalable to accommodate for large areas and can be coated as a thin-film on 3-dimensional irregularly shaped objects via sp...

'Robotic skins' turn everyday objects into robots

Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)

Developed in the lab of Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, robotic skins enable users to design thei...

Russian scientists send FEDOR robot to Roscosmos for launch

Sep 21, 2018 (Sputnik)

"The board of trustees decided to transfer scientific and technical products created within the framework of the fund's projects for their further use in the in...

Amazon aims to make Alexa assistant bigger part of users' lives

Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)

Updates to the internet giant's Alexa-infused Echo smart speakers will allow them to tend to microwave cooking and even have "hunches" regarding what users may ...

Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

Conor Walsh's team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and A...