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Has a French firm finally achieved the holy grail of robotics?

10/04/17, 05:31 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Exoskeleton, Medical and Service, Technology Discussions

Greg Nichols for ZDNet: The biomechanics of bipedal walking are preposterously complex. A French firm claims to have built a robotic suit that can emulate the way we walk.

Don't Look Back: Autonomous Cars Require More Than Just Technology

10/03/17, 09:25 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, driverless cars, Technology Discussions

Unlike memory folks in the audience who like to keep their secrets secret, Hyundai/Kia and Bzeih have laid out their roadmap for the next decade with some autonomous systems by 2020 and mass production by 2022.

Engineers teach robots to understand emotion through touch

09/22/17, 05:33 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | deep learning, Personal and Recreational, soft robotics, Technology Discussions

Duncan Geere for Tech Radar: Now researchers from Universit© Paris-Saclay are attempting to bestow the same benefits onto robots. Adriana Tapus and her colleagues are aiming to develop a humanoid robot that's sensitive to tactile stimulation in the same way people are.

Starting a Robotics Company? Sell a Service, Not a Robot

09/20/17, 05:34 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Robotics Accelerator, service robots, Technology Discussions

Tekla S. Perry for IEEE Spectrum: "I'm a big fan of going out and doing a service with a robot, competing with other businesses that provide that service, rather than trying to sell a $100,000 robot,"

Self-folding electronics could enable advanced robotics

09/18/17, 05:27 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Technology Discussions

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: The development, reported in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, could lead to new ways for people to interact with machines and even create self-folding robots.

Germany's Siemens to Set up Robotics Research Center in China

09/15/17, 05:36 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | research, Technology Discussions

Reuters: The Siemens research center at Beijing's Tsinghua University would focus on combined mechanics and electronics, human-robot collaboration and the application of artificial intelligence in robotic controllers, the German firm said.

San Francisco City Supervisor proposes tax on Robots

09/06/17, 05:41 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | service robots, Technology Discussions

Janie Har, Associated Press: Jane Kim, the city supervisor who is pushing the robot tax, says it's important to think now about how people will earn a living as more U.S. jobs are lost to automation.

5 ways to advance robotics in manufacturing

09/04/17, 06:21 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Industry 4.0, Technology Discussions

Stephanie Condon for ZDNet: The maturity of automated technology used in manufacturing is all over the map, says Carnegie Mellon Prof. Howie Choset, but there are concrete ways to fix that.

Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely

07/26/17, 05:40 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, Technology Discussions, unmanned

Simon Parkin for MIT Technology Review: Drone delivery won't happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.

Human Locomotion, Robotic Exoskeleton and Prostheses

07/18/17, 08:29 AM | Personal & Service Robots | Exoskeleton, Technology Discussions

Why is it so difficult to make walking more efficient in humans? There are a few challenges. People are highly complex, in the dynamics of our movements, in our hundreds of muscles and tendons, and in our wildly complex nervous systems.

Teaching Robots to 'Feel with Their Eyes'

07/07/17, 05:54 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | soft robotics, Technology Discussions, Training and Education

Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science: Burka hopes to build up a database of one thousand surfaces to help coach robots on how to identify objects and also to know what they're made of and how best to handle them.

The one law of robotics: Humans must flourish

06/30/17, 06:20 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Research and Reports, service robots, Technology Discussions

Pallab Ghosh for BBC News: "The thriving of people and communities needs to be put first, and we think Asimov's principles can be subsumed into that."

Robot Inertia vs Payload

06/29/17, 08:14 AM | Industrial Robotics | arm, Technology Discussions | Motion Controls Robotics, Inc.

Payload and inertia are both important factors when designing End of Arm Tooling and selecting a robot. The differences between the two and how they affect choosing a robot is explained in this article.

A Job Plan for Robots and Humans

06/29/17, 05:30 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Jobs / Employment, Technology Discussions | Fetch Robotics

Tom Simonite for MIT Technology Review: Melonee Wise's of Fetch Robotics spoke with San Francisco bureau chief Tom Simonite.

Please and Thank You: How DARPA Is Teaching Robots Manners

06/19/17, 05:22 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Darpa, Technology Discussions

Kacey Deamer for Live Science: Researchers created a machine-learning algorithm that allowed robots to "intuit" how to behave like humans in certain situations, like being quiet in a library.

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