For us humans, a healthy brain handles all the minute details of bodily motion without demanding conscious attention. Not so for brainless robots — in fact, calculating robotic movement is its own scientific subfield. My colleagues here at the ...
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Robot Is Tiny and Scary Fast. By Evan Ackerman. Posted 17 Jan 2018 | 19:00 GMT. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Hacker News Share to Reddit Share to Email.
Miniaturized origami-inspired robot combines micrometer precision with high speedTech XploreA tiny, origami-inspired robot designed to operate on human eyeXinhuaPenny-sized robot that could carry out surgeries developed by scientistsInternational Business Times UK
BEIJING – China's Transport Ministry says preparations are underway to send a
robot submarine possibly followed by divers to explore and plug holes in a sunken Iranian oil tanker whose 32 crew members are all believed to have died. The Shanghai
...China planning to send robot sub down to sunken oil tankerIndependent.ie
The so-called ARMAR-6
robot prototype was developed by engineers through the EU funded SecondHands project – an initiative involving a number of partners including Ocado, French research institute EPFL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Sapienza
...Robots are set to join Ocado's human factory workersIT PRO
Alibaba has already put the technology to work on Singles Day, the world's biggest shopping bonanza, by using computers to answer a large number of customer service questions. In a tweet, Pranav Rajpurkar, one of the Stanford researchers who developed ...
Today’s e-commerce spurs demand for reduced response times in fulfillment centers; generally has fewer products per order; and is constantly changing — increasing system complexity and the need for flexibility in automation. Today’s warehouses and distribution centers are far more complex than they were 10 years ago and employee turnover remains high; with complexity comes higher wages…
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In a lot of ways, CES 2018 was the year of the unexpected. Nobody expected the torrential downpour that flooded the convention center. Nobody expected the power outage that left thousands of attendees in the dark. And personally, I never expected to ...
A very clever robot unveiled at the annual consumer electronics expo in Las Vegas has brought humanity one step closer to either a delightful futuristic wonderland of household ease, or a kind of terrible dystopian future, depending your perspective ...
Scientists are one step closer to artificial muscles. Orthotics have come a long way since their initial wood and strap designs, yet innovation lapsed when it came to compensating for muscle power—until now. A collaborative research team has designed a wearable robot to support a person's hip joint while walking. The team, led by Minoru Hashimoto, a professor of textile science and technology at Shinshu University in Japan, published the details of their prototype in Smart Materials and Structures, a journal published by the Institute of Physics.
There are approximately one million toy
robots on shelves right now that can teach kids to code. But how many let programmers control a “real”
robot, without requiring them to become roboticists? Not quite enough, according to Misty Robotics, a spin
...Misty Robotics' first home robot is betting on the far futureCNETA peek at Misty, an advanced, programmable home robot that makes facesFast CompanyBoulder's Misty Robotics unveils its first personal robot, but not anyone can buy itThe Denver PostBoulder Daily Camera