Robotic face makes eye contact, uses AI to anticipate and replicate a person's smile before it occurs
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1d ago
What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a robot know how to do this? Or a better question, how does it know to get you to smile back ..read more
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New study finds invisible 'human work' allows robots to make deliveries
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2d ago
A new study has shown that people modify their behavior to accommodate autonomous delivery robots, and it is this invisible "human work" that allows robots to run smoothly on the streets and needs to be considered when designing their routes ..read more
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Future robots to stay one step ahead of bushfires
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4d ago
Bushfires can move at astonishing speeds. The land, amount of vegetation, and the weather all have a big impact on how a fire spreads. Staying one step ahead is no easy task, but our bushfire researchers are working on it ..read more
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Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
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4d ago
From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the motions that a human physically guides them through ..read more
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A method to enhance the planning of missions completed by multiple UAVs
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1w ago
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have already proved to be valuable tools for tackling a wide range of real-world problems, ranging from the monitoring of natural environments and agricultural plots to search and rescue missions and the filming of movie scenes from above. So far, most of these problems have been tackled using one drone at a time, rather than teams of multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous UAVs ..read more
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Using drone swarms to fight forest fires
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1w ago
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are using multiple swarms of drones to tackle natural disasters like forest fires. Forest fires are becoming increasingly catastrophic across the world, accelerated by climate change ..read more
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A model that could broaden the manipulation skills of four-legged robots
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1w ago
Robotic systems have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decades, evolving from rudimental stiff robots to a wide range of soft, humanoid, animal-inspired robots. Legged robots, particularly quadrupeds, have been found to be particularly promising for tackling simple tasks at ground level, such as exploring environments and carrying objects ..read more
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Researchers design a spring-assisted actuator that could enhance next-gen robots
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1w ago
Whether it's a powered prosthesis to assist a person who has lost a limb or an independent robot navigating the outside world, we are asking machines to perform increasingly complex, dynamic tasks. But the standard electric motor was designed for steady, ongoing activities like running a compressor or spinning a conveyor belt—even updated designs waste a lot of energy when making more complicated movements ..read more
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Universal controller could push robotic prostheses, exoskeletons into real-world use
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1w ago
Robotic exoskeletons designed to help humans with walking or physically demanding work have been the stuff of sci-fi lore for decades. Remember Ellen Ripley in that Power Loader in "Alien"? Or the crazy mobile platform George McFly wore in 2015 in "Back to the Future, Part II" because he threw his back out ..read more
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A snake-like robot designed to look for life on Saturn's moon
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1w ago
A team of roboticists at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with a colleague from Carnegie Mellon University's, Robotic Institute, has developed a snake-like robot to investigate the terrain on Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon ..read more
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