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Pentagon's robot satellite repair system sued by aerospace company
Feb 10, 2017 (Sputnik)
American aerospace manufacturer Orbital ATK is leveling a lawsuit against the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to halt a robot-satellite repai...
Virtual assistant Cortana holds people to promises
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
Microsoft virtual assistant Cortana began holding people to their promises on Thursday. At least, to commitments made in email messages. "Now, Cortana can help ...
NASA Selects Top 20 Space Robotics Challenge Teams
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
NASA, in partnership with Space Center Houston - the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center, and NineSigma, a global innovation consultant organiz...
500 years of robots go on show in London
Feb 07, 2017 (AFP)
Why do humans build machines that resemble them -- and what does that say about us? A London exhibition opening on Tuesday is surveying 500 years of simple to s...
Switzerland orders Protector remote weapon stations
Feb 07, 2017 (UPI)
Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace of Norway is to deliver updated Protector remote weapon systems to the Swiss armaments procurement agency. The contract issued b...
MIT's wearable AI system can detect a conversation's tone
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
It's a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions such as Asperger's, this can m...
Transparent gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forcefu...
New wave of robots set to deliver the goods
Jan 29, 2017 (AFP)
The robots of the future will be coming soon, rolling along at a lumbering pace with those goods you just ordered. The six-wheeled, knee-high robots from startu...
Apple joins group devoted to keeping AI nice
Jan 27, 2017 (AFP)
A technology industry alliance devoted to making sure smart machines don't turn against humanity said Friday that Apple has signed on and will have a seat on th...
Over to you, automation
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Many recent human factors studies of takeover time in automated vehicles have looked at how long it takes a driver to switch out of automation mode, usually in ...
The French ponder 'joie de vivre' in a work-free future
Jan 27, 2017 (AFP)
What role will work play in our future lives populated with robots and driverless vehicles? As France prepares to elect a new president, it is wrangling with bi...
Swarm of underwater robots mimics ocean life
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer scientists an extraordinary ne...
NASA develops AI for future exploration of extraterrestrial subsurface oceans
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
NASA is developing technology which could enable autonomous navigation of future underwater drones studying subsurface oceans on icy moons like Jupiter's Europa...
Making AI systems that see the world as humans do
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
A Northwestern University team developed a new computational model that performs at human levels on a standard intelligence test. This work is an important step...
For white-collar staff, AI threatens new workplace revolution
Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)
If your job involves inputting reams of data for a company, you might want to think about retraining in a more specialised field. Or as a plumber. After industr...
Scientists proposed a novel regional path tracking scheme for autonomous ground vehicles
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
For autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs), one of the most important issues is path tracking. Conventionally, steering and velocity control are generally two typica...
NASA showcases spaceflight, robotics and autonomous systems technology at CES 2017
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Joining industry technology leaders, NASA hosted a booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 5-9, 2017, to display and discuss its advance...
Cheery robots may make creepy companions, but could be intelligent assistants
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Cheery robots may give people the creeps and serious robots may actually ease anxiety depending on how users perceive the robot''s role in their lives, accordin...
Robots need 'kill switches', warn Euro MPs
Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)
The unstoppable rise of robots in our everyday lives requires urgent EU rules such as "kill switches", European Parliament members warned Thursday as they passe...
China turns to robots as workers age
Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)
Flat, orange robots glide under stationary cars and ferry them to empty Chinese parking bays, using space more efficiently and, their creators say, reducing dri...
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