National smart robot competition held in Qingdao
Contestants take part in a robot fighting match during a national smart robot competition in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Oct. 12, 2019.
Robots are conducting job interviews now
Robots are conducting job interviews now .... Getting interviewed by a robot doesn't sound very fun, and there are definitely concerning outcomes that ...
A gentle robotic hand that won’t break eggs, pasta sticks
In a testing scenario at the University of Buffalo, a robotic gripper was recently launched into a fixed object while holding a dry spaghetti stick.
There’s a big difference between collaborative and cooperative robots
That's the advice from Ben Sagan and Adam Welch, two robotics experts at Mitsubishi Electric. “The first question we ask a customer is, what are you ...
Mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton lets paralysed man walk again
A mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton is being used to help a disabled man in France walk again. Advertisement. Advertisement. The remarkable creation reads the brain signals of 30-year-old Thibault, who became a tetraplegic in 2015, and converts them ...
Make Sure to Feed the Robots Plenty of Metadata
The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are no longer science fiction. Both provide metadata and require metadata to work, ...
A social robot to enhance children’s handwriting skills
During the child-robot tutoring session, the robot makes some of the most common handwriting mistakes observed in 4-8 year old children, associated ...
We may be closing in on the discovery of alien life. Are we prepared?
In the next decade or so, it's entirely possible that you'll see a headline announcing that NASA has found evidence of life in space. Would that news cause you to run screaming into the street? An article that appeared recently in Britain's Sunday Telegraph ...
4 nifty packaging robots doing amazing things
Packaging robotics advocate and changeover wizard John Henry didn't see everything he wanted to see at the recent Pack Expo Las Vegas 2019 ...
Toyota is using VR to train robots as in-home helpers
Home robots could make all of our lives easier, and perhaps most importantly, they could allow seniors to live more independently. But training robots ...