Just What Soldiers Need: A Bigger Robotic Dog
A next-generation robotic dog will help soldiers.After BigDog, LittleDog, and Petman, we now have a glimpse of the newest intimidating robot from Boston Dynamics: AlphaDog.
View ArticleAmoeboid Robot Navigates Without a Brain
A Japanese researcher draws inspiration from slime mold cognition
View ArticleFive Reasons Robot Sex Partners Won't End Human Trafficking
Power, economics and the Uncanny Valley.
View ArticleA Robot Takes Stock
Image-processing and machine-learning algorithms could help stores to manage inventory.The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't...
View ArticleThe Avatar Economy
Are remote workers the brains inside tomorrow's robots?In our economy, many of the jobs most resistant to automation are those with the least economic value. Just consider the diversity of tasks,...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Factory Robots
Robots designed to work safely alongside humans could change the way we think of manufacturing.Ever since General Motors first put “Unimate” on an assembly line in 1961, most manufacturing robots have...
View ArticleThese Robots Install Solar Panels
Reducing labor costs could help make solar power more affordable.As the price of solar panels has plummeted, the amount of solar power being generated worldwide is soaring. Yet solar still accounts for...
View ArticleiRobot Puts Telemedicine on Auto Pilot
"The doctor's robot will see you now" may become a new refrain in hospitals.
View ArticleThis Robot Could Transform Manufacturing
A smarter, safer new industrial robot could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge.About two months ago, a new employee arrived on the...
View ArticleRebooting Manufacturing
Smarter, safer robots could expand automation to new areas of production work and help many manufacturers regain a competitive edge against those using low-cost labor.Photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg
View ArticleMeet Atlas, the Robot Designed to Save the Day
New humanoid robots will compete in a contest designed to test the ability of machines to take on extremely dangerous and high-stakes human jobs.The latest innovation from the U.S. Defense Department’s...
View ArticleRise of the More Human Robot
Atlas is meant to assist in emergencies, but it could also inspire other machines to walk in our footsteps.
View ArticleSmart Robots Can Now Work Right Next to Auto Workers
It used to be too dangerous to have a person work alongside a robot. But at a South Carolina BMW plant, next-generation robots are changing that.BMW has taken a huge step toward revolutionizing the...
View ArticleWhy Is Google Buying So Many Robot Startups?
Forget robotic product delivery. I suspect that as usual for Google, it’s all about the data.Google has quietly bought seven robotics companies, and has given Andy Rubin, the man who originally led the...
View ArticleIntel Robot Puts Touch Screens through Their Paces
A robot able to play touch screen games like Cut the Rope can judge whether humans will find a new device responsive.In a compact lab at Intel’s Silicon Valley headquarters, Oculus the robot is playing...
View ArticleA Telepresence Machine to Watch the Kids or Visit Grandma
Startup offers $995 remotely steered video-chat device for people to check up on kids and elderly relatives.When Scott Hassan went to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show last...
View ArticleThree Questions for iRobot’s CTO Paolo Pirjanian
The Roomba maker is working on technology that could enable robots to help with more household chores.Thanks to iRobot, the idea of having a robot vacuum your floors no longer seems futuristic—the...
View ArticleIncreasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates
Even conventional industrial robots are becoming safer to work around, making them more likely to collaborate with humans.Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum...
View ArticleThe Robot Revolution Is Here, and Growing
Robots already surround us, and they’re about to do much more than work on assembly lines and pick up dust bunnies.If you have been following technology news, you might be wondering if robots are about...
View ArticleJibo the Family Robot Might be Oddly Charming, or Just Plain Odd
The “world’s first family robot” is based on efforts to elicit emotional response in humans—a powerful idea, but one fraught with challenges.The roboticist Cynthia Breazeal has announced a product...
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