When Tina Sorg first saw the robot rolling through her Giant supermarket in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she said to herself, "That thing is a little weird."
Programmed to detect spills and debris in the aisles, the robot looked like an inkjet printer with a long neck.
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So, during one overnight shift, she went out to a nearby arts and craft store, brought back a large pair of googly eyes and, when no one was looking, affixed them on the top of the robot.
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Soft Robotics Vs Hard Robotics: How Are They Different?
• Where on one hand soft robot-systems are made of flexible, stretchable materials with reversible and variable properties, on the other hand, hard robotics systems are made of hard materials with invariable properties.
• In soft robotics systems, inherent compliance matches its environment whereas in hard robot-systems smooth contact with its environment facilitated by advanced feedback control strategies and sensors.
• The report suggests that the continuum topology with infinite degrees of freedom (DoF) seamlessly housing all of soft robotics systems' essential elements. Contrary to that, in hard robotics systems, discrete topology with a finite degrees of freedom consisting of rigid elements connected to each other with single DoF joints.
A New Study Finds People Prefer Robots That Explain Themselves | Innovation | Smithsonian
Explainable AI (XAI) is a branch of A.I. research that examines how artificial agents can be made more transparent and trustworthy to their human users. Trustworthiness is essential if robots and people are to work together. XAI seeks to develop A.I. systems that human beings find trustworthy – while also performing well to fulfill designed tasks.
At the Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning, and Autonomy at UCLA, we and our colleagues are interested in what factors make machines more trustworthy, and how well different learning algorithms enable trust. Our lab uses a type of knowledge representation – a model of the world that an A.I. uses to interpret its surroundings and make decisions – that can be more easily understood by humans.
Coronavirus is the first test for AI, robots, and drones that can prevent pandemics - Vox
The coronavirus is putting a lot of new tech, including robots and artificial intelligence, on display.
For now, most of this tech has been deployed in China, though it's worth keeping an eye out for it elsewhere. Like the virus, the deployment of this next-generation tech is bound to spread.
Near Seattle, for instance, a robot helped doctors treat an American man diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. The robot, which carried a stethoscope, helped the patient communicate with medical staff while limiting their own exposure to the illness.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The yellow robot is entertaining. It knocks over a series of tiles that spell "Welcome." Then, as if it has eyes, its robotic arm sorts through the scrabbled tiles and reassembles them on a stand to again spell "Welcome."
Robots inch closer to 'feeling' pain | Science News
SEATTLE — A robot with a sense of touch may one day "feel" pain, both its own physical pain and empathy for the pain of its human companions. Such touchy-feely robots are still far off, but advances in robotic touch-sensing are bringing that possibility closer to reality.
Asada, an engineer at Osaka University in Japan, and his colleagues have designed touch sensors that reliably pick up a range of touches. In a robot system named Affetto, an unsettlingly realistic-looking child's head, these touch and pain signals can be converted to emotional facial expressions ( SN: 7/2/19 ).
Area high schools compete in 'robot wars' | Merrimack Valley | eagletribune.com
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