You hear EVA before you see it. A whirring and whizzing noise greets you as you enter the offices of Automata, a start-up robotics company based in London.
To one side a robotic arm is going through an intricate set of moves: six joints twisting and turning in a sequence which, in the real world, would place a label on a parcel.
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Around the office and workshop there are more than a dozen other EVA units, some being dismantled by the engineers, others awaiting testing.
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Watch a Boston Dynamics robot dog pull a rickshaw - CNET
In a new video posted on Feb. 13, with help from Zach Radding from Build Cool Stuff , Savage constructs a custom-made carriage with wheels for Spot to pull.
Spoiler alert: Robot uprising aside, you'll be rooting for Spot. New Spot video, featuring a rickshaw @donttrythis built, here: https://t.co/O6O37g594N pic.twitter.com/eoHODebSvu
Considering Savage and the carriage aren't light cargo, it's impressive to see Spot pull the rickshaw along a paved road and uphill at the same time.
Robots, Clocks and Computers: How Ancient Greeks Got There First - The New York Times
The robot is a recreation of the automatic servant of Philon, designed more than 2,200 years ago by a Greek engineer and operating though a complex mechanism of springs, weights and air pressure that also allowed it to dilute the alcohol with water.
It is the focal point of an exhibition of more than 100 inventions that highlight the vast extent of Ancient Greece's technological legacy and also features an analogue computer, an alarm clock and automatic fire doors.
A Growing Presence on the Farm: Robots - The New York Times
FARMER CITY, Illinois — In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40-feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bent to place a small white robot at the edge of a row marked 103. The robot, named TerraSentia, resembled a souped up version of a lawn mower, with all-terrain wheels and a high-resolution camera on each side.
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Traditionally, plant breeders have measured these phenotypes by hand, and used them to select plants with the very best characteristics for creating hybrids. The advent of DNA sequencing has helped, enabling breeders to isolate genes for some desirable traits, but it still takes a human to assess whether the genes isolated from the previous generation actually led to improvements in the next one.
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Virginia team earns spot in international robotics competition | EurekAlert! Science News
IMAGE: Students from the UVA Engineering-VA Tech robotics team test their aerial drones in preparation for an international competition. view more
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Within the next decade, travelers checking into hotels might hand their luggage to robot bellhops. Drivers riding down a street might see human construction foremen managing groups of robots laying bricks or pouring building foundations.
This is the future Tomonari Furukawa , robotics researcher, Zinn Faculty Scholar and new professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia, is bringing closer to reality.
Artificial Human Beings: The Amazing Examples Of Robotic Humanoids And Digital Humans
Even though the earliest form of humanoid was created by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1495 (a mechanical armored suit that could sit, stand and walk), today's humanoid robots are powered by artificial intelligence and can listen, talk, move and respond. They use sensors and actuators (motors that control movement) and have features that are modeled after human parts.
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Digital human beings are photorealistic digitized virtual versions of humans. Consider them avatars. While they don't necessarily have to be created in the likeness of a specific individual (they can be entirely unique), they do look and act like humans. Unlike digital assistants such as Alexa or Siri, these AI-powered virtual beings are designed to interact, sympathize, and have conversations just like a fellow human would.
Machine Learning Robots Who Cook Perfect Hot Dogs | The Brink | Boston University
In this video, systems engineering graduate researcher Guang Yang and mechanical engineering graduate researcher Zachary Serlin teach robots Jaco and Baxter to work together to safely cook, assemble, and serve a hot dog to a human.
Researchers still don't fully understand exactly how machine-learning algorithms—well, learn. That blind spot makes it difficult to apply the technique to complex, high-risk tasks such as autonomous driving, where safety is a concern. In a step forward published in Science Robotics , Calin Belta, a BU College of Engineering professor, and researchers in his lab taught two robots to cook, assemble, and serve hot dogs together.
Australia Wants to Help NASA Build Space Station Using Robots
The Western Australian government has announced the opening of a brand new nationally-funded space robotics center as part of a partnership with NASA, in Perth, Australia.
Technology developed there could pave the way for remotely operated robots that are capable of constructing a new space station orbiting the Moon, according to WAtoday .
"Almost everything in the new missions to the Moon and Mars will be operated remotely so launching things into space is just one part of it," Science, Innovation and ICT Minister Dave Kelly told WA Today .
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