Robotics Toyota’s humanoid robot will rock in action mode Dec 2, 2018 Credit: ToyotaGood things happen when Toyota cozies up to the next generation 5G technology. The news is not about self-driving cars but rather…
Robotics A new approach to achieve efficient and fluent human-robot interaction Dec 1, 2018 Credit: Chand Gudi et al.Researchers at the Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory (The Magic Lab) of the University of Technology Sydney…
Robotics Robots in the field: farms embracing autonomous technology Dec 1, 2018 Joe Allnutt, lead roboticist at British startup company the Small Robot Company, inspects a farming robot named Tom as part of a trial in East…
Robotics Flexible electronic skin aids human-machine interactions Nov 30, 2018 Human skin contains sensitive nerve cells that detect pressure, temperature and other sensations that allow tactile interactions with the environment.…
Robotics Could ‘Iron Man’ style suit be the answer to the world’s biggest nuclear challenge? Nov 29, 2018 Credit: University of Bristol If wearable technologies are the future, a radioactive-busting robotic suit could represent yet one more dramatic…
Robotics Computer graphics researchers make drone navigation easier Nov 29, 2018 Credit: CC0 Public DomainDrone operators struggling to fly the multi-propeller device and take pictures simultaneously could soon have a much…
Robotics Image: Robotic hopper Nov 29, 2018 Credit: European Space Agency This walking and hopping robot is currently being tested in ESA’s Mars Yard.SpaceBok is a quadruped robot designed…
Robotics North Sea Deployment Shows How Quadruped Robots Can Be Commercially Useful Nov 28, 2018 Photo: ANYbotics As much as we like writing about quadrupedal robots, it’s always been a little bit tricky to see how they might be commercially…
Robotics Robot-waiters remotely controlled by differently abled people serve at a cafe in Japan Nov 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018 16:18 PM IST It’s no secret that humans have been obsessed with the concept of robots serving them. Now a cafe called Dawn ver.β (Beta)…
Robotics End-to-end learning of co-speech gesture generation for humanoid robots Nov 27, 2018 Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea have recently developed a neural network model that…