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MIT to test autonomous robot boats in Amsterdam
While much of the world seems crazed by the idea of autonomous cars, in Netherlands, something else floats their boat.[…]
Read moreAssistant robots are not just bipedal. They could do even more as an accessory.
Many new robots look less like the metal humanoids of pop culture and more like high-tech extensions of ourselves and our capabilities. In the same way eyeglasses, wheelchairs, pacemakers and other items enable people to see and move more easily in the world, so will many cutting-edge robotic systems.
Read moreAdvanced exoskeleton puts children with spinal muscular atrophy on their feet
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most serious degenerative neuromuscular disesases in children, with very high mortality rates in the affected population. We don’t have a cure for this condition and there is no treatment in sight, but this world’s first exoskeleton for children could make a world of difference for a non-negligible number of them…
Read morePulling the plug on disobedient AI is a real concern even for Google
Uprising of super-intelligent robots is something to worry about – at least according to people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk. It seems that Google takes the matter no less seriously according to the recently published research by their DeepMind lab…
Read moreSuper stretchy and self-healing polymer could be suitable for artificial skin and muscles
Testing the stretchiness of a newly synthesized rubberlike polymer in one of the Stanford University labs has yielded surprising results. Cheng-Hui Li, a member of a research group led by chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao, has developed a type of elastomer – the kind of plastic…
Read moreHumanoid robots lend a helping hand to people with social disorders
Researchers from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Exeter, Montpellier, and Naples Federico II, have found that humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from serious social disorders, such as schizophrenia or social phobia…
Read moreA formal approach to modeling self-adaptive behavior for swarm robotics
Two researchers from the Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, (Limerick, Ireland) presented a formal approach to[…]
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