分類彙整: robotics
MIT Helps Delivery Robots Navigate to Your Front Door

Autonomous robots already roam sidewalks across the US, delivering packages and food to customers’ doorsteps—assuming they can find the front door. Traditionally, robotic navigation requires mapping an area in advance, then using algorithms […]
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NASA’s Shape-Shifting Robot Could One Day Explore Saturn’s Moons

Move over, Michael Bay: NASA is designing its own shape-shifting robots to investigate Saturn’s moons. The agency’s fleet of mini androids can roll, fly, float, and swim—then morph into a single machine capable […]
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Starship Robots Will Deliver Food, Groceries To More University Campuses

Starship Technologies announced plans to expand its autonomous delivery service to 100 university campuses in the next 24 months. The company, which recently completed 100,000 commercial deliveries, has scheduled autumn launches at Purdue […]
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Robot Dog Astro Can Sit, Lie Down, and Save Lives

Who’s a good boy? Astro, the four-legged seeing and hearing intelligent robodog. Using deep learning and artificial intelligence, scientists from Florida Atlantic University’s Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics (MPCR) Laboratory are bringing Astro […]
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You Can’t Squish This Cockroach-Inspired Robot

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, created an insect-sized robot that moves like a cockroach—and is nearly as robust. The tiny cyborg (about the size of a large postage stamp) can scurry […]
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AT&T Developing 5G Robots To Work in Retail Stores

AT&T and Badger Technologies are working on autonomous robots with 5G wireless networking capabilities. Designed for retail use, the androids would identify out-of-stock, mispriced, or misplaced products, as well as potential hazards. Fifth-generation […]
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AT&T Developing 5G Robots To Work in Retail Stores

AT&T and Badger Technologies are working on autonomous robots with 5G wireless networking capabilities. Designed for retail use, the androids would identify out-of-stock, mispriced, or misplaced products, as well as potential hazards. Fifth-generation […]
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Robot Social Engineering: Brittany Postnikoff at QCon New York

At QCon New York, Brittany Postnikoff presented “Robot Social Engineering: Social Engineering Using Physical Robots”. Quoting findings from academic research literature, she demonstrated that humans can often be manipulated via robots. A core message of the talk was the need for security and privacy to be part of any robot’s fundamental design.
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U.S. Army To Test Remote-Controlled Combat Vehicles

The U.S. Army will start testing robotic combat vehicles next year. Beginning in March 2020, soldiers in modified Bradley Fighting Vehicles will fire at targets using a platoon of remote-controlled androids. The month-long […]
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Nothin’ But Net for Toyota’s Guinness Record-Winning Basketball Bot

Toyota’s basketball-playing CUE3 humanoid robot has earned a Guinness World Record by sinking 2,020* consecutive free throws. CUE’s road to Guinness glory, however, was not paved in gold. The project dates back to […]
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