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Robot doesn't have to behave and look like a human (w/video)
The R2-D2 robot from Star Wars doesn't communicate in human language but is, nevertheless, capable of showing its intentions. For human-robot interaction, the robot does not have to be a true humanoid. Provided that it signals are designed in the right way.
September 22, 2016 Read more
What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030
A panel of academics and industry thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in AI might affect life in a typical North American city and spark discussion about how to ensure the safe, fair, and beneficial development of these rapidly developing technologies.
September 22, 2016 Read more
Machine learning in a quantum world
From self-driving cars and IBM's Watson to chess engines and AlphaGo, there is no shortage of news about machine learning, the field of artificial intelligence that studies how to make computers that can learn. Recently, parallel to these advances, scientists have started to ask how quantum devices and techniques might aid machine learning in the future.
September 17, 2016 Read more
Artificial limbs are becoming more like wearable robots (w/video)
Here's how to convince the brain that prosthetic legs are real.
September 12, 2016 Read more
World first for robot eye operation
Surgeons have performed the world's first operation inside the eye using a robot. They used the remotely controlled robot to lift a membrane 100th of a millimetre thick from the retina at the back of the right eye.
September 12, 2016 Read more
Teaching human values to artificial intelligences
A nationwide team in the U.S. is setting out to ensure that when computers are running the world, they will make decisions compatible with human values.
September 8, 2016 Read more
Team of robots learns to work together, without colliding (w/video)
When you have too many robots together, they get so focused on not colliding with each other that they eventually just stop moving. New algorithms are different: they allow any number of robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task - swapping locations on his lab floor.
September 7, 2016 Read more
How maggots are influencing the future of robotics
What can software designers and ICT specialists learn from maggots? Quite a lot, it would appear. Through understanding how complex learning processes in simple organisms work, scientists hope to usher in an era of self-learning robots and predictive computing.
September 2, 2016 Read more
Team develops world's first ciliary stroke motion microrobots
A Korean research team developed microrobots with high propulsion efficiency in highly-viscous fluid environments, applying propulsion techniques that mimic the ciliary stroke motion of paramecia.
September 1, 2016 Read more
Study examines how AI might affect urban life in 2030
This year-long exercise in scientific introspection yields a report meant to spur discussion about how the fruits of an AI-dominated economy should be shared.
September 1, 2016 Read more
A robot to zap 'Darwin's nightmare', the invasive lionfish (w/video)
A lionfish harvester robot would use a robot arm with two metal electrodes on the end to electrocute invasive lionfish.
August 30, 2016 Read more
Researchers discover machines can learn by simply observing
It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, according to new research.
August 30, 2016 Read more
The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Powered by a chemical reaction controlled by microfluidics, the 3D-printed 'octobot' has no electronics.
August 24, 2016 Read more
The robots are coming - and they are here to help
A new European network effort has put robot-assisted neurorehabilitation on the map.
August 24, 2016 Read more
Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light
Researchers using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, demonstrated a bioinspired micro-robot capable of mimicking caterpillar gaits in natural scale. The 15-millimeter long soft robot harvests energy from green light and is controlled by spatially modulated laser beam.
August 18, 2016 Read more
Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape (w/video)
By combining robotics with tissue engineering, researchers are starting to build robots powered by living muscle tissue or cells. These devices can be stimulated electrically or with light to make the cells contract to bend their skeletons, causing the robot to swim or crawl.
August 10, 2016 Read more
Robot companions are coming into our homes - so how human should they be?
Some see robots as a hypothetical future replacement for human carers. But a question roboticists are asking is: how human should these future robot companions be?
August 9, 2016 Read more
Dot-drawing with drones (w/video)
Flying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals.
August 4, 2016 Read more