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Company Six Unveils ‘Throwable’ Robot for First Responders
Curated from www.govtech.com - November 26th, 2020 by igor_X

The Boulder, Colo.-based company’s first product since launching in May is a portable, smartphone-controlled reconnaissance robot to give first responders enhanced situational awareness in dangerous conditions.

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Robot "makes you do push-ups" | Boing Boing
Curated from boingboing.net - November 26th, 2020 by igor_X

The “pushup robot” makes you do push-ups. See if you can deduce from the above photograph exactly how it does this. “This robot makes your life harder,” writes the apparent …

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The Original Jaws Shark Robot Has Been Restored, And It Looks Amazing - CINEMABLEND
Curated from www.cinemablend.com - November 26th, 2020 by igor_X

This. Is. Amazing.

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Boston Dynamics' Spot Is Helping Chernobyl Move Towards Safe Decommissioning
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - November 25th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Legged robots are uniquely qualified for sensing around what's left of Chernobyl's Reactor 4

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UC Riverside, Merced researchers build agbot to decide when to water
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - November 25th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Researchers at UC Riverside and Mercer are developing an autonomous mobile robot to take constant crop moisture samples to aid farmers.

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Magnetic spray turns objects into robots that walk, roll and crawl
Curated from newatlas.com - November 25th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

By combining magnetic materials with magnetic fields, robotics researchers continue to develop machines that can be remotely manipulated in all kinds of useful ways, such as somersault through the colon or crawl through blood vessels to deliver drugs. Scientists at the City University of Hong Kong h...

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Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion?
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - November 24th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Emotion AI, also known as affective computing, is rare in certain healthcare applications. Should emotion be included as a parameter?

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Picking With Purpose uses Berkshire Grey robots to feed families in need
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - November 24th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Berkshire Grey is working with City Harvest and the Greater Boston Food Bank and seeks more partners for the Picking With Purpose project.

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Turn a boring box into a sweet working robotic hand
Curated from www.popsci.com - November 24th, 2020 by igor_X

The human hand is a marvel of engineering. How close can you get with this recycled design?

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Waukegan factory churns out germ-zapping robots that kill COVID-19 virus in hospitals, hotels and on ‘Chicago Med’
Curated from www.chicagotribune.com - November 24th, 2020 by igor_X

The $125,000 germ-zapping LightStrike robot kills the virus that causes COVID-19 with powerful UV blasts. Because of overwhelming demand, the robots are being made in a Waukegan factory.

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this robot can autonomously transform its legs into wheels depending on the terrain
Curated from www.designboom.com - November 24th, 2020 by igor_X

 

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China calls launch a success as robotic spacecraft heads to moon
Curated from www.reuters.com - November 24th, 2020 by igor_X

China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s, a mission underscoring Chinese ambitions in space.

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Coronavirus: Commission to provide 200 disinfection robots to European hospitals - Shaping Europe’s digital future - European Commission
Curated from ec.europa.eu - November 24th, 2020 by pfabios

As part of its continued efforts to tackle the spread of coronavirus and provide Member States with necessary equipment, the Commission launched the purchase of 200 disinfection robots that will be delivered to hospitals across Europe.

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See the new STEM center and robotics facility at Hemlock Public Schools
Curated from www.mlive.com - November 23rd, 2020 by igor_X

Four other Saginaw County districts will make use of the robotics practice space.

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Artistic Robot Has Paints, Will Travel
Curated from hackaday.com - November 23rd, 2020 by igor_X

Creativity is a very human trait, and one that many try to emulate with robots. Some focus on the cerebral side of things, working with neural networks and machine learning to produce new artistic …

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Tank-like robot designed to autonomously tend gardens
Curated from newatlas.com - November 23rd, 2020 by igor_X

Gardening is very therapeutic for many people, but there are nonetheless some yard-related tasks that can be a hassle. The Yardroid robot was designed to autonomously handle those jobs, utilizing artificial intelligence.

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Non-profit raising money to build robotic garden to help homebound senior citizens
Curated from whnt.com - November 22nd, 2020 by igor_X

HUNTSVILLE, Ala – One non-profit is hoping to give back to another, as Mycelium starts fundraising to build a robotic garden for CASA, a non-profit that provides services for homebound senior…

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Robotics Startup With Ties to CS Wins International Innovation Award
Curated from cs.illinois.edu - November 22nd, 2020 by igor_X

Robotics Startup With Ties to CS Wins International Innovation Award

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Video Friday: Aquanaut Robot Takes to the Ocean
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - November 20th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

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This robot dispenses boba tea at this fully automated bar
Curated from gizmodo.com - November 20th, 2020 by igor_X

I’ll admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of boba tea even before the pandemic brought my social life to a grinding halt. Tapioca pearls just taste gross to me, as does bacon, avocado, and a slew of other oft-hyped food that the internet goes crazy over, so I realize I’m very much in the minority her...

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Robots Invade the Construction Site
Curated from www.wired.com - November 20th, 2020 by igor_X

Boosted by advances in sensors and artificial intelligence, a new generation of machines is automating a tech-averse industry.

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Wireless Charging for Robots on the Moon - EE Times Asia
Curated from www.eetasia.com - November 20th, 2020 by igor_X

WiBotic has announced a partnership with Astrobotic, Bosch, and the University of Washington to develop and market wireless charging solutions for robots on the Moon as part of a NASA ‘Tipping Point’ project...

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Google has created an AI-powered nightmare creature generator
Curated from techcrunch.com - November 19th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

Google has taken the wraps off Chimera Painter, a web-based tool that lets anyone generate terrifying cryptozoological entities in an interface that looks like MS Paint by way of Diablo. Why, you ask? Well, isn’t it obvious? No… no, I suppose it isn’t. Surely the strangest thing to hit Google’s AI b...

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Neural network plus motion planning equals more nimble robots
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - November 19th, 2020 by geraldinebc15

University of California, Berkeley, researchers found that integrating a neural network into motion control software yields smoother robots.

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