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MATE-XT exoskeleton designed to be lightweight, adjustable, rugged
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - December 3rd, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Comau said its new MATE-XT exoskeleton is designed to be easy for workers to wear and use in industrial applications such as construction.

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Tiny, high-capacity "atomristor" stores data in single-atom switches
Curated from newatlas.com - December 3rd, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Engineers at the University of Texas have created one of the smallest memory storage devices ever, made out of a two-dimensional material measuring one nanometer square. Dubbed an “atomristor,” the device works on the movements of single atoms, which could pave the way for much smaller memory system...

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Rheinmetall's new armed reconnaissance robot also provides fire support
Curated from newatlas.com - December 3rd, 2020 by igor_X

Rheinmetall has unveiled its latest armed battlefield robot designed for tactical intelligence gathering and combat support. Part of the company's Mission Master Autonomous – Unmanned Ground Vehicle (A-UGV) family, the Mission Master – Armed Reconnaissance system is capable of not only carrying out ...

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How Easy Is it to Build a Robot Assassin?
Curated from www.lawfareblog.com - December 3rd, 2020 by igor_X

Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh reportedly may have been assassinated using a remote-controlled machine gun. Such devices are unfortunately easy to construct.

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Food robotics startup Karakuri unveils automated canteen, plus $8.4M investment led by firstminute
Curated from techcrunch.com - December 3rd, 2020 by igor_X

Last week I witnessed for myself how a new kind of robot really could — as sci-fi has been telling us for many years — create and serve us food. Today, Karakuri, a food robotics startup, unveils its first automated canteen to make meals: the “DK-One” robot. It’s also revealing a $8.4 million (£6.3mi...

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Curly the Curling Robot Becomes an Overnight Sensation
Curated from www.thomasnet.com - December 2nd, 2020 by igor_X

Korea University researchers Seong-Whan Lee and Dong-Ok Won along with Klaus-Robert Müller from the Berlin Institute of Technology have developed Curly, an Artificial-Intelligence-powered robot that’s become an overnight curling sensation.

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Video: China Lands Robotic Spacecraft on the Moon
Curated from www.nytimes.com - December 2nd, 2020 by igor_X

The Chang’e-5 spacecraft landed on Tuesday on the moon, where it will spend two days gathering rocks and soil from the lunar surface. This was the third successful uncrewed moon landing by China since 2013.

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Tencent robot dog navigates plum blossom pile like Kung Fu master
Curated from www.dailymail.co.uk - December 2nd, 2020 by igor_X

Jamoca, which has been created by Tencent's Robotics X Lab, can walk across a set of uneven poles spaced randomly apart, like 'plum blossom piles' used in Kung Fu to teach better balance.

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Vote for your most promising Field Robot Concept!
Curated from www.futurefarming.com - December 2nd, 2020 by igor_X

What is the most promising field robot concept? Take part in the poll and cast your vote!

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Quadriplegic Pilots Race for Gold in Cybathlon Brain Race
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - December 1st, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Close finish in the brain-computer interface race at world's second cyborg Olympics

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The ExoMy is a programmable $600 Mars rover you can build yourself
Curated from www.engadget.com - December 1st, 2020 by geraldinebc15

From Sojourner to the much bigger Curiosity, robotic rovers tend to come in all shapes and sizes, but few will go down as adorable as the European Space Agency’s new ExoMy rover.

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Metamaterials could lead to transforming robots, say U.S. Army, MIT
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - December 1st, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Reconfigurable mobile robots made of metamaterials and small robots could help soldiers by forming a bridge as needed, said Army scientists.

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Is 'Batbot 6000' a Real Baseball-Hitting Robot?
Curated from www.snopes.com - December 1st, 2020 by igor_X

Visual artist Tom Coben has created several realistic-looking robots.

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Utah farm using robotic vertical farming to feed their animals for less
Curated from www.fox13now.com - December 1st, 2020 by igor_X

A Utah tech company is working with a local farm to produce food for their cows more efficiently, using towers that handle the whole growing process from start to finish.

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New system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types
Curated from techxplore.com - December 1st, 2020 by igor_X

So you need a robot that climbs stairs. What shape should that robot be? Should it have two legs, like a person? Or six, like an ant?

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Yes, Tampa Bay, that’s a little Roomba-like robot mowing the lawn
Curated from www.tampabay.com - November 29th, 2020 by igor_X

A Madeira Beach couple is in the business of Mowbots, robot mowers that work with GPS to quietly cut the grass. And yes, some customers name their bots.

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Origami Structures Lead to Adjustable Stiffness in Robots
Curated from www.unite.ai - November 29th, 2020 by igor_X

New research out of Arizona State University demonstrates how curved origami structures can lead to tunable flexibility in robots. Tunable flexibility allows a robot to adjust its stiffness based on the task at hand, which in the past has proven to be difficult to implement with simple designs. Hanq...

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Thanks to Israeli robots, the future is here
Curated from www.jpost.com - November 29th, 2020 by igor_X

At the Jerusalem College of Technology, we expect to be an integral part of Israel’s path to becoming a major force in robotics around the world.

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Hate Crusts? This Smart Robot Will Slice Them Off a Sandwich
Curated from gizmodo.com - November 27th, 2020 by igor_X

You know you hate crusts when you design and build a smart robot that can automatically slice them off a sandwich.

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Robotics researchers propose AI that locates and safely moves items on shelves
Curated from venturebeat.com - November 27th, 2020 by igor_X

Robotics researchers at Google and the University of California, Berkeley propose methods that help robots move objects more accurately.

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Hyundai Wants to Buy the Robot Dog So It Can Make Its Cars Look Like This
Curated from www.popularmechanics.com - November 27th, 2020 by igor_X

And we're here for it.

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Why We Need a Robot Registry
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - November 26th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

At-a-glance identifiers will tell us who’s operating bots in public

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Curiosity rover finds evidence of ancient megafloods on Mars
Curated from www.engadget.com - November 26th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Previous images of large channels on Mars and giant wave-like features on its surface called “megaripples” indicate that the planet suffered from catastrophic floods in the past. Now, a team of scientists has used data gathered by the Curiosity rover to prove that megafloods swept across the Gale c...

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Will the physics add up for near-silent, ion-propelled cargo drones?
Curated from newatlas.com - November 26th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Florida's Undefined Technologies claims it has managed to increase the thrust levels of ion propulsion systems to "unprecedented levels" with its "Air Tantrum" technology, enabling very quiet drones with no moving parts in the propulsion system, that look like flying pallets.

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