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Robotic 'exoskeleton' prevents elderly falls: study
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
Designed to limit stumbles among the elderly, the device has sensors that can discern in real time when a limb starts to buckle or flail, and lightweight motors...
3-D-printed 'bionic skin' could give robots the sense of touch
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
"This stretchable electronic fabric we developed has many practical uses," said Michael McAlpine, a University of Minnesota mechanical engineering associate pro...
Chefs, robotics engineers, sailboat racers team up to tackle lionfish problem
May 09, 2017 (UPI)
A variety of groups are working on curbing the spread of the invasive species, but a pair of conservation teams are taking a unique problem-solving approach -- ...
Amazon's new Alexa speaker has a screen too
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
The new device called Echo Show steps up efforts by Amazon to be part of the connected home, and potentially create a market for a new kind of computing device....
Computers learn to understand humans better by modelling them
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from Aalto University, University of Birmingham and University of Oslo present results paving the way for computers to learn psychologically plausib...
Your future surgery may use an automated, robotic drill
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Utah developed the drill that produces fast, clean, and safe cuts, reducing the time the wound is open and the patient is anest...
The rise of automated art
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Dr. Jean-Marc Deltorn, researcher at the Centre d'etudes internationales de la propriete intellectuelle in Strasbourg, argues that we must remain a responsive a...
Synthetic two-sided gecko's foot could enable underwater robotics
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
They say their development, reported in ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry C, could be useful in underwater robotics, sensors and other bionic devices. Inspired...
Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
Common machine learning programs, when trained with ordinary human language available online, can acquire cultural biases embedded in the patterns of wording, t...
Brane Craft Proposal Awarded Phase 2 by NASA
Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)
This award is one of 22 early-stage technical proposals that will transform the future of human and robotic exploration missions, introduce new exploration miss...
Lockheed Martin gets license for military exoskeleton tech
Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)
By securing legal permission to use the product for defense-related applications, the company said it can use the technology to supplement its FORTIS industrial...
Facebook launches digital assistant 'M' in US
Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)
Facebook on Thursday launched its digital assistant named "M" for US users of its Messenger application, ramping up the social network's efforts in artificial i...
Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from the CNRS, Thales, and the Universities of Bordeaux, Paris-Sud, and Evry have created an artificial synapse capable of learning autonomously. Th...
Robot epigenetics: Adding complexity to embodied robot evolution
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
Evolutionary robotics is a new exciting area of research which draws on Darwinian evolutionary principles to automatically develop autonomous robots. In a new r...
NASA Robotic Refueling Mission Departs Station
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
The International Space Station serves as an orbiting test and demonstration laboratory for scientific experiments to be performed inside and outside the space ...
NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools for Use on Ocean Worlds
Mar 31, 2017 (JPL)
Want to go ice fishing on Jupiter's moon Europa? There's no promising you'll catch anything, but a new set of robotic prototypes could help. Since 2015, NASA's ...
AM General, Army to test autonomous vehicle system
Mar 30, 2017 (UPI)
An autonomous vehicle for transporting personnel and equipment within U.S. military facilities is being developed by AM General and the Army. AM General said it...
Printable device points toward sensor-laden robot skin
Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)
In this age of smartphones and tablet computers, touch-sensitive surfaces are everywhere. They're also brittle, as people with cracked phone screens everywhere ...
Tech world debate on robots and jobs heats up
Mar 26, 2017 (AFP)
Are robots coming for your job? Although technology has long affected the labor force, recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are heightening c...
Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speed
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
The research group of Professor Akio Ishiguro and Assistant Professor Dai Owaki of Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated that by...
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