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Latest Wingcopter delivery drone can haul three packages at once
Curated from newatlas.com - April 28th, 2021 by geraldinebc15

German drone maker Wingcopter has today introduced a new generation model, the Wingcopter 198. This all-electric tilt-rotor vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) fixed-wing drone is capable of delivering three packages to multiple locations during one flight.

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Okay, this EV charging robot is wicked!
Curated from thenextweb.com - April 28th, 2021 by igor_X

Envision Group uveiled the first mobile EV charging robot powered by 100% green electricity.

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The Useless Robots On TikTok Are Hard Not To Love
Curated from in.mashable.com - April 28th, 2021 by igor_X

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Apple harvesting robot plucks a piece of fruit every 7 seconds
Curated from newatlas.com - April 28th, 2021 by igor_X

Like many industries across the world, Australia's fruit-picking sector has been impacted heavily by the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a massive void in the labor market that would normally be filled by backpackers looking to make buck on the road. Local researchers have cooked up a creative partial s...

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Researchers develop a robotic guide dog to assist blind individuals
Curated from techxplore.com - April 28th, 2021 by igor_X

Guide dogs, dogs that are trained to help humans move through their environments, have played a critical role in society for many decades. These highly trained animals, in fact, have proved to be valuable ...

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Brain Signals Can Drive Exoskeleton Parts Better With Therapy
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - April 27th, 2021 by geraldinebc15

Training patients to use muscle electrodes for robotic limb control works better than previously thought possible

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Personal robot harnesses inner speech to talk itself through problems
Curated from newatlas.com - April 27th, 2021 by geraldinebc15

Robots made to serve as personal assistants are improving all the time, but the reasoning behind their decision-making is still something of a mystery to the everyday user. In an effort to improve communications between humans and their robotic counterparts, scientists in Italy have demonstrated the...

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Leonidas microwave energy weapon can disable swarms of drones at once
Curated from newatlas.com - April 27th, 2021 by geraldinebc15

Small consumer-grade drones offer some pretty frightening opportunities for terrorists; indeed, while they've been used in some assassination attempts, and explored by ISIL as a way to remotely attack opponents in Syria, it's really quite remarkable that we haven't seen a lot more of it.

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China launches robot prototype capable of catching space debris with net
Curated from www.reuters.com - April 27th, 2021 by igor_X

A Chinese space mining start-up launched into low Earth orbit on Tuesday a robot prototype that can scoop up debris left behind by other spacecraft with a big net.

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The truth about nano robots and why they are not in our vaccines -- yet
Curated from www.nbc4i.com - April 27th, 2021 by igor_X

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Ecoppia Robots Perform Automated Solar Panel Cleaning - Novus Light Today
Curated from www.novuslight.com - April 26th, 2021 by igor_X

Ecoppia's water-free robotic cleaning technology performs fully automated nightly cleaning of solar modules to ensure peak performance year round

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AI is getting more life-like by copying a trick from human children
Curated from www.inverse.com - April 26th, 2021 by igor_X

Roboticists from UC Berkeley have taught their bipedal robot Cassie how to walk through campus using child-like reinforcement learning instead of strict models.

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ManipulaTHOR training software from AI2 gives virtual robots a hand — and an arm
Curated from www.geekwire.com - April 25th, 2021 by igor_X

You can lead a virtual robot to a refrigerator, but you can’t make it pull out a drink. This is the problem that a new robotic agent is designed to address.

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Attack of the robotic SPACs
Curated from techcrunch.com - April 25th, 2021 by igor_X

That thing I said the other week about robotics SPACs being relatively few and far between is becoming less and less true. It’s like someone walked down to the local robotics club, explained the admittedly somewhat convoluted methods around robotics mergers and the rest of the industry decided that ...

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Simple robots, smart algorithms
Curated from techxplore.com - April 25th, 2021 by igor_X

Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots to work collectively can be equally challenging, unless ...

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Latest ANYmal walking robot gets ready for inspection
Curated from newatlas.com - April 24th, 2021 by geraldinebc15

The ANYmal walking robot has been around for a few years now, and even got some wheels last year. Now Switzerland's ANYbotics has announced a new fully autonomous four-legged robot coupled with inspection analytics software for complete end-to-end inspection of energy and industrial processing plant...

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Biohybrid soft robot with self-stimulating skeleton outswims other biobots
Curated from techxplore.com - April 23rd, 2021 by Mariane

A team of researchers working at Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology has developed a skeletal-muscle-based, biohybrid soft robot that can swim faster than other skeletal-muscle-based biobots. ...

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A robot that helps children in need of assistance walk
Curated from news.yahoo.com - April 23rd, 2021 by Mariane

Trexo Robotics created a robot aid that helps children walk. The system moves your legs and feet to imitate the walking movement. When the bottom of the feet makes contact with the surface of the ground friction occurs and movement is made. Trexo Robotics is aiming to allow people to play sports wit...

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Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is a free-walking robot that will make you believe in Groot
Curated from techcrunch.com - April 23rd, 2021 by Mariane

The black curtain pulls aside and a character straight out of the movies waves hello. This is not an uncommon occurrence when I’m around Imagineers, but this time is special. The character isn’t a costume, it’s a robot. And, unlike the m​any animatronic figures you’ve seen in the parks, it’s not stu...

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Video Friday: Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - April 23rd, 2021 by geraldinebc15

Robots are learning how not to fall over after stepping on your foot and kicking you in the shin.

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These Might Be the Fastest (and Most Efficient) AI Systems Around
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - April 23rd, 2021 by geraldinebc15

Almost 2000 entries ranked in MLPerf’s latest inferencing list

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Tusk-free ivory substitute can be 3D printed into complex shapes
Curated from newatlas.com - April 23rd, 2021 by geraldinebc15

The international ivory trade has been banned for over 30 years now, which means that technicians restoring ivory artifacts have to get creative in finding alternative materials. A new 3D-printable substance known as Digory appears to fit the bill nicely.

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You Can Finally Buy the Flatcat That Looks Like Someone Turned Roadkill Into a Robotic Pet
Curated from gizmodo.com - April 22nd, 2021 by igor_X

Does a robotic pet have to look and behave exactly like a real dog or cat to entice its owners to interact with it? With the Aibo Sony seems to think so, but the creators of the flatcat disagree. First revealed a couple of months ago, the robotic roadkill is finally available for sale through Kickst...

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500 robots heading into world's oceans in huge new study
Curated from thehill.com - April 22nd, 2021 by igor_X

The robotic floats are equipped with a range of sensors to collect data on the chemistry and biology of the ocean.

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