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There's No Cure for Covid-19 Loneliness, but Robots Can Help | WIRED
"These people who supposedly had little short-term memory began interacting with Paro. As the study progressed, they'd see the Paro coming and recognize it," Petersen says. "One lady who had been nonverbal for eight years, per her family's report, started talking. And her first words were I love you —to the Paro."
Is there something disconcerting about a woman who is unable to communicate with her family being able to form a bond with a robot? Maybe. But for humans who are able to look past the weirdness of developing emotional ties with robots, those connections can result in real benefits.
Soft biogel robot material made of completely food-safe ingredients
Watching out for the environment is certainly something humans should take seriously. And as Wall-E proved, so should robots.
Soft robotics is the new frontier behind the grippers, sensors, and even artificial limbs of the future. The problem is that producing the stretchy yet strong materials needed for this type of equipment usually requires using fossil fuels that are not only toxic, but just keep getting dumped in landfills with other disposable tech.
"Despite being entirely degradable when disposed in wastewater, our gels maintain their mechanical properties for more than one year under ambient conditions and enable soft actuators that operate for more than 330,000 cycles without failure," the team notes in a recently published study in Nature Materials .
AI-Powered Agricultural Robots: A Revolution in Affordable Ultra-Precision, Says IDTechEx
BOSTON , June 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The developments in agricultural robotics, machine vision, and AI will drive a deep and far-reaching transformation of the way farming is carried out. Yes, today the fleet sizes and the total area covered by new robots are still vanishingly small compared to the global agricultural industry. However, this should not lull the players into a false sense of security because the ground is slowly but surely shifting.
This development frontier has the wind in its sails, pushed by rapidly advancing and sustainable hardware and software technology trends and pulled by structural and growing challenges and needs. In the IDTechEx assessment, these technology developments can no longer be dismissed as gimmicks or too futuristic. They are here to stay and will only grow in significance.
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Robots that can learn? Watson professor is working on it | Binghamton News
When Shiqi Zhang wants to test his latest theories about artificial intelligence (AI), he and his students dispatch their army of robots to explore the Engineering Building.
Knee-high with laptop computers mounted on the top, the tiny automatons may not look that smart. Slowly but surely, however, they are learning to wheel their way around the building's third floor and figuring out how to get back to Zhang's lab. When they arrive, they sit patiently at the door like obedient dogs waiting to be let inside.
Video: This new robotic dog promises to be the robot of the people
The most cutting edge robots today can open doors, dance to music, and perform acts of remarkable dexterity. They are also very, very expensive.
Tha's why NYU Tandon School of Engineering has designed a budget-friendly robot dog that has many of the same capabilities and agility of its pricier counterparts for only a fraction of the cost. The design is completely free and open-source on GitHub and can be easily 3D printed by labs across the world and assembled using off-the-shelf components.
From HAL 9000 to Westworld's Dolores: The pop culture robots that influenced smart voice
The warm and solicitous female voices of smart assistants contrast with cinematic robot archetypes of the "menacing male" or "monstrous mother", with their highly synthesized voices and dangerous surveillant personalities.
Instead, smart assistants voices have been strategically adapted by companies like Google, Apple and Amazon to sound helpful and sympathetic.
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In the early 20th century, robots were marvels of futuristic technology. The first voice given to a robot was Bell Labs' " the Voder " in 1938. This was a complex device (typically played by Bell's female telephone operators) that could generate slow and deliberate speech, composed of various manipulations of generated waveforms.
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