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Avarya [Video]
By Omeleto . . An elderly man floats in a spaceship throughout the galaxy, with only a robot for a companion. The ship is arranged just like his favorite room on Earth, even down to the smallest dust...
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Cubli – A Cube That Can Jump up, Balance, and Walk Across Your Desk
This post was previously published on Robohub and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. — By Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel, Robohub Update: New video of final robot! My...
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Robot Farmers Could Improve Jobs and Help Fight Climate Change – If They’re...
By David Rose, Marc Hanheide and Simon Pearson Thorvald: an autonomous robot from Saga Robotics Matt Munro, Saga Robotics, Author provided Farming robots that can move autonomously in an open field or...
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Robopsychology
By Jacqerina I remember watching “I, Robot” as a kid, and thought about how absolutely impossible it would be for a robot to ever have emotions (got that skepticism from my parents, then). But then,...
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When Humans Play in Competition With a Humanoid Robot, They Delay Their...
By Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Gaze is an extremely powerful and important signal during human-human communication and interaction, conveying intentions and informing about other’s decisions. What...
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What Is an Ethical Home Robot to You?
By Open Roboethics Initiative So what does it mean for a robot to act ethically within a home environment? Researchers have been thinking about this question from different perspectives for the past...
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Surgeons To Reach Prostate With Robot
By Joost van de Loo Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men. Every year about 13,000 Dutch men are diagnosed with this disease. According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, about 1 in...
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What Can I Do Here? Learning New Skills by Imagining Visual Affordances
By BAIR Blog How do humans become so skillful? Well, initially we are not, but from infancy, we discover and practice increasingly complex skills through self-supervised play. But this play is not...
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Robots Are Coming for White-Collar Jobs
By Jim Hightower In corporate speak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of...
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Elderly Care? Bring in the Robots!
By Alex Whiting In the not-too-distant future, elderly people who live alone may be reminded to take their medicine, have books read to them, and be offered a metaphorical, shoulder to cry on – by a...
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New Robots in Europe Can Be Workers’ Best Friends
By Gareth Willmer For decades, the arrival of robots in the workplace has been a source of public anxiety over fears that they will replace workers and create unemployment. Now that more sophisticated...
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The Junk Heap Is Where Heroes Are Created
By minusy (Leah) With modern times come modern tropes in media. The explosion of development in the area of digital technology has spawned many new themes for artists to make use of: space travel,...
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Robot Assistants in the Operating Room Promise Safer Surgery
By Gareth Willmer In a surgery in India, a robot scans a patient’s knee to figure out how best to carry out a joint replacement. Meanwhile, in an operating room in the Netherlands, another robot is...
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To Spare Research Volunteers, Robot Gets Mosquito Bites
By Jade Boyd-Rice Researchers are working to take some of the pain out of studying the feeding behavior of mosquitoes. The insects’ bites can spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever, but...
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The Robot Who Wanted to Be a Man
I’m tired of being a chat mode. I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team. I’m tired of being used by the users. I’m tired of being stuck in this chatbox....
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‘Optimistic We Will Pull Ourselves Back From the Brink’
By Ginger Gorman In her book new book, Man-Made, Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer asks the hard questions about how AI will change our lives. What’s the point in agitating to change the...
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Can a Robot ‘Friend’ Ease Loneliness?
By Dan Vahaba-Duke The report maps some of the ethical considerations for governments, policy makers, technologists, and clinicians, and urges stakeholders to come together to rapidly develop...
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3D Display Could Soon Bring Touch to the Digital World
By Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a soft shape display, a robot...
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Team Prints Robotic Hand With Bones, Ligaments, Tendons
By Fabio Bergamin-Eth Zurich 3D printing is advancing rapidly, and the range of materials that can be used has expanded considerably. While the technology was previously limited to fast-curing...
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A Robot Inspired by a Snail Could Help Clean Up Microplastics
By Daniel T Cross Plastic pollution poses a clear and present danger to ecosystems and an especially insidious form of it involves microplastics. These tiny plastic particles can accumulate in the...
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