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Amazon beefs up Echo line-up and Alexa skills
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
The US tech giant unveiled upgrades to its Echo speakers which showcase the company's digital assistant. The freshened line-up of Echo devices included a redesi...
Click beetles inspire design of self-righting robots
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers presented their findings at Living Machines 2017: The 6th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems at Stanford University, a...
Creative use of noise brings bio-inspired electronic improvement
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
But, what if there were a way to exploit this effect to enhance signal transmission for a new generation of devices, such as bio-inspired sensors and computing ...
Robotic fashion: Wear your heartbeat on your sleeve
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Her creations, which combine digital technology with haute couture, play with social norms and aim to engineer a cold-turkey solution to our dearest deceptions,...
From self-folding robots to computer vision
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
"IROS is one of the premier conferences in robotics," said Henrik Christensen, director of the Contextual Robotics Institute and a professor of computer science...
Quantum machine learning
Sep 22, 2017 (SPX)
Machine learning techniques use mathematical algorithms and tools to search for patterns in data. These techniques have become powerful tools for many different...
Sorting molecules with DNA robots
Sep 22, 2017 (SPX)
The work was done in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering. It appears in a paper in the September 15 issue of Science. "Just like ...
Scientists create world's first 'molecular robot' capable of building molecules
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm. Each individual r...
Artificial 'skin' gives robotic hand a sense of touch
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The work, reported in the journal Science Advances, describes a new mechanism for producing stretchable electronics, a process that relies upon readily availabl...
Orbital ATK Begins Assembly of Industry's First Commercial In-Space Satellite Servicing System
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
The spacecraft will begin system-level testing in spring 2018 with launch planned late next year. MEV-1 will provide satellite life extension services to its an...
NASA awards SSL new funding for Dragonfly on-orbit assembly program
Sep 12, 2017 (SPX)
The contract modification to move forward with the detailed design of a semi-autonomous robotic system for in-space satellite assembly confirms NASA's confidenc...
Robot 'conductor' steals the show from Italy's top tenor
Sep 12, 2017 (AFP)
The concert in the heart of Pisa is a world first, with two mechanical "arms" conducting live music at the grand finale of the first International Festival of R...
New Japanese sniffs out smelly feet
Sep 08, 2017 (AFP)
If you don't dare to ask a friend, one Japanese start-up might have the answer with a new robot dog that will sniff your feet and give you a pitilessly honest v...
Chinese robotics artist makes real-life 'Transformers'
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
Sun Shiqian's roomy warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing houses a hulking menagerie, from a sleepy cow to a fiery metal dragon that stands 4.9 metres (16 feet)...
Voice assistants promise a light-fingered future
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
Tiny speakers visible at every stand at Berlin's IFA electronics fair, most of them endowed with a feminine voice, are the ears and mouths of the new artificial...
New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
Now engineers at MIT have designed an autonomous robot with "socially aware navigation," that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing these general code...
Illinois researchers develop origami-inspired robot
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Assistant professors Aimy Wissa and Sameh Tawfick, along with graduate student Alexander Pagano and undergraduates Tongxi Yan, and Brian Chien, used origami pap...
Designing custom robots in a matter of minutes
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
But what if there was a way to let non-experts craft different robotic designs - in one sitting? Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intellig...
Tech leaders warn against 'Pandora's box' of robotic weapons
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX joined more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence entrepreneurs in signing a letter to the United Nations calling for action...
Engineer's model lays groundwork for machine-learning device
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Elijah Thimsen, assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and his collaborators ha...
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