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Robot hand can detach from arm, crawl over to objects, and pick them up
The results can be a bit creepy. Designing a human-inspired hand that can bend backward to pick up a broad range of objects and detach itself to crawl over to another firmly plants it inside the uncanny valley. If it didn’t look so much like a human hand in the first place, it would probably be less unsettling.
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Robots plus generative AI: Everything you need to know when they work as one
We've had robots for decades, and in the next five years, autonomous robots will make real-time decisions in dynamic environments. Here's what can we expect from what AI and robots can do together.
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Archax is a $2.7 million pilotable robot for the ultra-wealthy
Japanese startup Tsubame has 5 units up for preorder.
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This insect-sized robot can carry 22 times its own weight
The four-legged miniature machine is powered by tiny explosions.
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Cordless Robotic Pool Cleaners - How do they work?
Cordless Robotic Pool Cleaners are easier to maintain and operate than corded pool cleaners. An ideal choice for your weekly pool maintenance schedule.
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This LiDAR-equipped, 30-pound robot dog can be yours for $1,600
It's not quite as good as a Boston Dynamics bot, but it is a lot cheaper.
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Fleet of robots could build human colony on the Moon and ‘talk to each other’
The latest advances in human advances to move into space has come from scientists who have developed a team of whizzy three-legged robots that might be able to work together as ‘teammates’
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Robot Tow Rigs Are Coming To Take Your Illegally Parked Car
Every day, the reality of a dystopian future becomes more real. Recently, it was Ford applying to patent a method for autonomous cars to repossess themselves if owners miss enough payments. Or it’s the fact that I can’t really modify my car in California. But in the United Kingdom, they’ve gone a step further by using robot towing dollies to pluck cars out of tight spaces.
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Chipotle is hiring a robot to do a task employees hate
Chiptole's robot "Autocado," designed to cut, core, and peel avocados, is expected to slice guacamole prep time in half.
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This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean you have to squish fewer bugs
Designed by undergraduate students, it uses machine learning to identify egg masses on trees, and a brush-like attachment to scrap them off.
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ChatGPT designs its first robot
Poems, essays and even books—is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL to dig a little deeper: For instance, can ChatGPT also design a robot? And is this a good thing for the design process, or are there risks? The researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence.
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Sanctuary rolls out Phoenix, a Carbon-based humanoid AI labor robot
Canada's Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the "world's first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR)." Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat "piloted" approach to training.
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Amazon Astro Leak Claims Home Robot Will Get A Massive AI Upgrade
Amazon is working on a big intelligence upgrade for its Astro home robot, at least according to internal documents that leaked. Here's what we know so far.
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A New Capitalism for the Robot Age
There has always been tension between technology and capitalism. On the one hand capitalism rewards innovation and efficiency. That’s why capitalism has always outperformed managed economies. If a company builds a better mousetrap for less money, then people will have a better mousetrap for less money. Without capitalism it’s unlikely we’d all have smartphones in our pockets that we can use to have pizza delivered to our door within the next 30 minutes. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t have pizza delivered to wherever I happen to be within 30 minutes.
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Uber Eats launching robot delivery option in Fairfax, Virginia, as part of partnership
A popular shopping and dining district in Northern Virginia will start to see sidewalk delivery robots carrying Uber Eats orders. Uber Technologies and robotics company Cartken on Thursday unveiled the new AI-powered robot deliveries in the Mosaic District of Fairfax, Virginia.
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Robots in the Big Apple: Robo-trash cans patrolling New York plaza make friends, creep out some
Two robotic trash cans collected refuse and recycling at Astor Place in Manhattan as part of Cornell University researchers' experiment.
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NYPD reboots robot police dog after backlash and, again, civil rights advocates warn against high-tech hound
The NYPD robot pooch Digidog got a new leash on life Tuesday — and police leaders insist it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it. Two years after the robot landed the NYPD in the doghouse with civil rights advocates, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell promised to keep New Yorkers abreast of how the operations of the cyber mutt and two other tech tools pilot tested.
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AI humanoid robot 'figure 01' assists people at work as an all-around handy helper
In March 2023, robotics company Figure emerged and suddenly introduced its master plan to build Figure 01, an artificial intelligence humanoid robot that can think, learn, interact, and help people at work on its own. The self-moving and autonomous humanoid robot that is yet to be built is aimed to rely on the power of artificial intelligence to learn and predict its movement without anyone’s help. No controls needed – Figure 01 can work for and on itself.
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Tiny hybrid robot can identify, capture a single cell
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture a single cell, opening the door to a vast array of applications.
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Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right
Researchers from the University of Cambridge conducted a study in a tech consultancy firm using two robot wellbeing coaches, where 26 employees participated in weekly robot-led wellbeing sessions for four weeks. Although the robots had identical voices, facial expressions, and scripts for the sessions, the physical appearance of the robot affected how participants interacted with it.
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