Even as the scale of interaction between humans and technology increases, a new research has shown that people tend to take more risks when prodded by a robot.
The research, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, showed that robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours.
The researcher now believe that further studies are needed to see whether similar results would emerge from human interaction with other artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as digital assistants or on-screen avatars.
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Navigating Obstacles: Engineering Students Compete in Robot Challenge, Virtually | UVA Today
Nicola Bezzo, a University of Virginia assistant professor with joint appointments in the departments of Engineering Systems and Environment and Electrical and Computer Engineering, is used to getting around obstacles.
Bezzo has also been teaching future engineers, through a mobile robot competition, how to build the best autonomous systems since he joined UVA Engineering in 2016.
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The competition is the culminating event in Bezzo's "Autonomous Mobile Robots" course. Student teams collaborate to develop their challenger robots, applying the combination of mathematical models and sensors that give the robots their self-driving capabilities. The winning robot exhibits the fastest time while continuously re-evaluating and successfully navigating the competition track.
Scientists have created a new soft robot activated by light and magnetism
Flexible soft robots are a hot commodity in laboratories these days as researchers discover new and remarkable ways to devise bendable machines whose movements and agility take their cue from Mother Nature.
"Conventional robots are typically heavy machines with lots of hardware and electronics that are unable to interact safely with soft structures, including humans," explained Samuel I. Stupp , study co-author and director of the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science, a Northwestern-based Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Scientists Create Robot Powered by Lights and Magnets
(CN) — Scientists have developed a type of soft-bodied spongy robot that doesn't require any complex hardware or electricity to move about, as it's powered entirely by lights and magnets.
Their unique creation is comprised of 90% water and made by molding hydrogels over a ferromagnetic nano-wire skeleton without any of the heavy machinery typically found in robots.
Activated by light, a nearby rotating magnetic field determines the bot's movements, allowing it to climb hills and transport cargo at human speeds — a marked improvement over an earlier version.
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New ultraviolet robot helps Pulaski County Sheriff's Office combat the spread of COVID-19
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is turning to technology amid the pandemic.
The sheriff's office recently purchased a robot that can use ultraviolet light to combat the spread of COVID-19 and other viruses easily spread in close quarters.
The robot is capable of disinfecting the virus on surfaces within 1000 square feet in less than 10 minutes.
"Utilizing this robot, we can quickly, safely, and accurately disinfect a large area, reducing potential exposures to COVID-19 and other viruses, keeping our inmates, staff, and community safer," said the sheriff's office in a Facebook post .
Tiny water-based robot is powered by light and can walk, move cargo and even dance –
A new robot created by researchers at Northwestern University looks and behaves like a tiny aquatic animal, and could serve a variety of functions, including moving things place to place, catalyzing chemical reactions, delivering therapeutics and much more.
These robots are very small — only around the size of a dime — but they’re able to perform a range of tasks, including walking at the same speed as an average human, and picking up and carrying things. They work by either taking in or expelling water through their soft components, and can respond to light and magnetic fields thanks to their precise molecular design.
Hyundai Motor Buys 80% of Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics - Bloomberg
“The combination of the highly complementary technologies of Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics, and the continued partnership of SoftBank, will propel development and commercialization of advanced robots,” the companies said, helping to create a “robotics value chain ranging from robot component manufacturing to smart logistics solutions.”
A sale of Boston Dynamics would mark another twist in the trajectory of a company that spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1990s and operated independently until Google bought it in 2013. It was sold again in 2017, that time to SoftBank.
Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
From cultured meat to plant-based foods to robotic kitchen assistants , tech seems to be infiltrating every corner of our food system. And it's a good thing, because we're sorely in need of ways to make more and better-quality food using fewer resources.
One rapidly-spreading technology that's doing just that is vertical farming , which uses LED lights and a heavily-controlled indoor environment to grow produce with dramatically less water, space, or fertilizer than in traditional agriculture.
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