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DeepMind's breakthrough demonstrates deep learning's potential to dramatically accelerate scientific discovery

Tiny quadcopter drones, or micro air vehicles (MAVs), have notoriously short battery lives. So, if they can "perch" somewhere instead of hovering in mid-air, more power to them. A new gripper mechanism has been designed with that in mind.

A new robot created by researchers at Northwestern University looks and behaves like a tiny aquatic animal, and could serve a variety of functions, including moving things place to place, catalyzing chemical reactions, delivering therapeutics and much more. This new soft robot honestly looks a heck ...

(FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – There is a new employee scooting around the COCOCO Home showroom. “We have multiple scheduled appointments with Chester. That’s what we call our robot,” said COCOCO found…

The models assess a person’s choice of words to determine their stance on five key principles of morality

Monarch Tractor has developed a small tractor that it said is the world's first fully integrated, fully electric, driver-optional tractor.

No matter how good we humans have made something, chances are nature did it better millions of years ago. Rather than compete, it’s often better to tap into the natural version – and that’s exactly what scientists have done with the Smellicopter, a drone that uses an antenna from a live moth to snif...

Ghost’s quadruped bots are the scary older brother of every other dog robot you’ve ever seen. And with good reason. They’re shipping off to join the military.

The marketing contract, which will be for up to $10,000, will be to manage the school’s reputation and social media presence.

Yesterday, China’s Chang’e-5 robotic lunar lander successfully set down on the lunar surface marking, for the first time in four decades, that humans have travelled to the moon to collect soil samples. Today, the Chang’e-5 reported back to Earth, transmitting a full-color recording of its descent.

Machines ranging from simple devices to complex equipment make use of brushless DC motors that convert electrical energy into rotational motion.

What if, instead of hard-coding road rules into self-driving algorithms, AI agents were free to come up with their own ways of safely and…

The more time you spend at home, the more trash accumulates, resulting in unpleasant smells. What if there was a trash can that could do everything but take itself out? Townew, the world's first self-sealing and changing trash can, will help take care of yet one more task while at home.

An explosion-proof fire-fighting robot with excellent off-road performance as well as detection and analysis capabilities has been developed by a research institute in central China's Henan Province. Using a remote control system to operate the robot, firefighters can quickly detect the source of fi...

The contactless kiosk uses a robotic arm to retrieve the ingredients and make the smoothie. It's one of Blendid's five kiosks in California.

Cows meet the 21st century at Georgia dairy farm as robots take over the milking.

The drone network expects to significantly improve the timeliness and efficiency of Labor Berlin’s diagnostics services by providing an option to avoid roadway delays, which will improve patient experience with potentially life-saving benefits and lower costs.

Central California farmers continue to deal with a labor shortage. Bear Flag Robotics steps in to take their tractors and upgrade them with autonomous technology, allowing a farmer's staff to be redeployed in other areas. In the long term, farmers will be able to produce more food, with less land an...

Honda has designed a tiny robot to perch on kids’ shoulders and help them avoid road accidents, with the Ropot tapping ADAS tech and ideas from the automaker’s cars. Described as a &#82…

The driving range picker is one of the most thankless jobs in golf. Nowadays, they'll get even less credit as robotic pickers have arrived on the scene.

Over the past decade or so, roboticists and computer scientists have tried to use reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to train robots to efficiently navigate their environment and complete a variety ...

Deep-learning robot Shimon writes and rhymes in real time

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