The Human Support Robot (HSR) has been created several years ago but remained in the lab until the team has recently decided to try it in the real world, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Digital Trends. These robots are already ...
Read More »Mars Robot Curiosity Making Decisions on Its Own
In 2012, the Curiosity rover began its slow trek across the surface of Mars, listening for commands from Earth about where to go, what to photograph, which rocks to inspect. Then last year, something interesting happened: Curiosity started making decisions ...
Read More »In China, a robot has started delivering packages to people
Jingdong, or JD.com, China’s second-biggest e-commerce company after Alibaba, sent robots to deliver items for the first time yesterday (June 18), on the last day of a two-week-long shopping bonanza that recorded sales of around $17.6 billion, according to a ...
Read More »Japanese team develops snake-like robot to help in disasters
It is the first snake-shaped robot in the world that can move with its front tip off the ground, according to the team, which includes members from Tohoku University in Sendai, according to The Japan Times. The Tohoku region was ...
Read More »Soft 3D-Printed Robot Is Agile Even on Sand and Rocks
The robot’s ability to reliably walk across different types of surfaces is unique, and so is the fact that its elaborately shaped legs were created with a 3D printer, according to the engineers who developed the bio-inspired creature, Joinfo.com reports ...
Read More »Russia unveils Terminator-style robot amid World War 3 fears
Christened FEDOR – Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research – designers claim the futuristic sharpshooter would initially be deployed during search and rescue missions, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Star. “FEDOR was designed as an android able to replace humans ...
Read More »Genius human teaches robot to shoot lasers into his eyes
This robot was created by a 19-year-old university student Michael Reeves, according to The Verge. Reeves coded the software for the robot in C# using an off-the-shelf facial recognition database, and built the targeting apparatus from a webcam, a pair ...
Read More »Disney brings humanoid robots to park
Disney Enterprises Inc. announced it has filed a U.S. patent for a 3D printed, interactive, soft robot, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Fox News. The application describes the new “soft body” robot to be built specifically for “physical interaction with ...
Read More »Toyota Wants to Use Robots for Keeping Elderly Moving
Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move, Joinfo.com reports with reference to U.S. News. Toyota said it saw ...
Read More »Chinese AI engineer marries robot he created
31-year-old Zheng Jiajia married a robot he named “Yingying” in a traditional informal Chinese wedding ceremony, Joinfo.com reports with reference to South China Morning Post. A Chinese engineer has “married” a robot he created after failing to find a human ...
Read More »Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu ...
Read More »Domino’s and Starship Technologies will deliver pizza by robot in Europe this summer
If all goes well there, Domino’s and Starship intend to bring robot pizza delivery to the Netherlands as well, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Tech Crunch. Starship’s devices have the look of a self-driving food cart, rather than some science fiction humanoid. They travel on six wheels at ...
Read More »Robot police officers will soon replace humans in Dubai
People will be able to report crimes to the robot using a touchscreen on its chest, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Express. The robot, in the wealthy United Arab Emirates city, can salute and shake hands. It will be ...
Read More »Watch Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Control a Giant Mech Robot
Jeff Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot on Sunday, March 19, at his company’s private Machine Learning, Home Automation, Robotics and Space Exploration (MARS) conference, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Live Science. Video of the bot, developed by ...
Read More »High School Students Beat AI Robot in Math Test
An ‘exam-taking robot’ developed by China’s Chengdu Zhun Xing Yun Xue Technology Co. was defeated by a group of high school students in Chengdu in a test-taking competition, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Huffington Post. The four-year old robot took ...
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