A sweaty robot may help humans understand impact of soaring heat

Pores that bead sweat like humans are displayed on ANDI, an Advanced Newton Dynamic Instrument, as researchers prepare to learn more about the effect of heat exposure on the human…

Teaching robots to teach other robots

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new USC study finds that by sharing knowledge with each other at the same time, AI agents can quickly learn a wider range of tasks,…

Deep-learning-assisted underwater 3D tactile tensegrity

A revolutionary, nature-inspired soft embracing robotic gripper

ROSE can pick up a wide variety of objects with ease. The top-left image shows it grasping a coffee can, whereas the bottom images show it successfully picking up a…

Global metric developed for the design of dexterous robots

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A collaborative project by researchers from Kings College London (KCL), University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Hospital has defined the design and application of robots…

Could AI-powered robot ‘companions’ combat human loneliness?

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Companion robots enhanced with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate the loneliness epidemic, suggests a new report from researchers at Auckland, Duke, and Cornell Universities.…

What is a strike in baseball? Robots, rule book and umpires view it differently

A radar device is mounted on the roof behind home plate at PeoplesBank Park during the third inning of the Atlantic League All-Star minor league baseball game in York, Pa.,…

UN tech agency rolls out human-looking robots for questions at a Geneva news conference

Robots are presented during a press conference with a panel of AI-enabled humanoid social robots as part of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ‘AI for Good’ global summit in Geneva, Switzerland,…

Training robots how to learn, make decisions on the fly

by University of Illinois Dept. of Aerospace Engineering The proposed deep Gaussian process model is trained on the offline database with deep meta-learning with controlled deployment gaps, which repeatedly splits…

Concept and disturbance resistance evaluation

Three-dimensional computer-aided design image of integrated pneumatic-electromagnetic hybrid linear actuator, an example of one realization of the fusion hybrid linear actuator. Note that the part of the model is sectioned.…