Robotics

Croatian robot maker Gideon Brothers today unveiled its first commercial product, an autonomous logistics robot designed to move safely around people, equipment, and other mobile machines. The company also announced its investors, who have…
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Farmers are turning to technology to address a number of pressing problems, such as the growing global shortage of food and labor. Artificial intelligence, field sensors, and data analytics are some of the advanced systems used in that…
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Industrial automation could perform more efficiently if the risks associated with centralization could be eliminated. This is particularly true for “lights-out” factories, the first appearance of which we are seeing in Japan and the…
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A KiwiBot robot in action on the UC Berkelet campus.   KiwiBot One of the robots used to deliver food around the UC Berkeley campus caught fire Friday, an issue the company blamed on a faulty battery replacement. The KiwiBot robot — one of…
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By Chelsea Finn∗, Frederik Ebert∗, Sudeep Dasari, Annie Xie, Alex Lee, and Sergey Levine With very little explicit supervision and feedback, humans are able to learn a wide range of motor skills by simply interacting with and observing the…
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In a world first, an undersea robot has dispersed microscopic baby corals (coral larvae) to help scientists working to repopulate parts of the Great Barrier Reef during this year’s mass coral spawning event. Six weeks after winning the…
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Small imperfections in a wine glass or tiny creases in a contact lens can be tricky to make out, even in good light. In almost total darkness, images of such transparent features or objects are nearly impossible to decipher. But now,…
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Artistic photo taken by Jerry H. Wright showing a hand-made shape generated following an emergent Turing pattern (displayed using the LEDs). The trajectory of one of the moving robots can be seen through long exposure. Jerry also used a…
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If artificial intelligence (AI) agents are to become real players in society, using their machine abilities to complement our human strengths, they must first become players in the video game of Minecraft. And to prove themselves in…
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Rice University scientists have created a rubbery, shape-shifting material that morphs from one sophisticated form to another on demand. The shapes programmed into a polymer by materials scientist Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan…
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