MIT researchers have developed a new way of customising chip sets for robots. Called "robomorphic computing", the method can speed up a robot's response time and enable it to think faster.
The method helps build chips by using a robot's physical layout and its intended application. The hardware design is based on user inputs, like a robot's limb layout and how its various joints can move. It then translates these physical properties into mathematical matrices corresponding to a robot's movements.
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You're Hired: Recruiting Mobile Robots | Automation World
There's a new workforce out there, made up of highly intelligent, semi-autonomous robots. Here's some advice for picking the best candidate.
Say hello to the next-generation robot workforce—a diverse group of highly intelligent mobile robots capable of performing tasks not possible with older robot technology and doing so in direct and safe collaboration with humans.
Challenges raised by the COVID-19 global pandemic have also buttressed interest in integrating mobile robot talent into the existing workforce. Some manufacturers are turning to mobile robots because operations are not safe for their human employees.
In a first, most North American robots last year didn't go to automotive plants | Reuters
(Reuters) - For the first time last year, most of the robots ordered by companies in North America weren't destined for automotive factories.
The shift is part of a long-term trend of automation spreading into more corners of the economy which was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Online retailers have scrambled to expand capacity as more people buy goods online, while food and other types of factories have seen automation as a tool to keep lines running and workers safely separated.
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On the 100th Anniversary of 'Robot,' They're Finally Taking Over - WSJ
On Jan. 25, 1921, Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R."—short for "Rossum's Universal Robots"— premiered in Prague . It was a sensation. Within two years it had been translated into 30 languages, including English, to which it introduced the word "robot." Čapek's vision of unwilling slaves of humanity destined to rise up and destroy their makers has shaped our view of both automation and ourselves ever since.
In a century-long dialogue between inventors of fictional and actual robots, engineers have for the most part been forced to play catch-up, either realizing or subverting the vision of robots first expounded in books, movies and television.
Undergrad's first novel, optioned for a movie, features big robots and even bigger feelings |
In his 36 years of teaching, some of the best writing UW English Professor Shawn Wong has seen came out of English 302, his class on narrative storytelling. Still, he was taken aback by Zoe Mikuta's essay in winter 2019.
Mikuta, a sophomore at the time, had been unassuming in class. But, at just 19, she had already secured a two-book deal with MacMillan Publishers, one of the "Big Five" publishers of English-language books.
Mikuta was born in the Washington, D.C., area to a Korean mother and white father. The family moved to Boulder, Colorado, when she was 12. In D.C., she enjoyed gatherings with her mom's family. In mostly white Boulder, she was cut off from her Korean heritage.
Package delivery robots could make their way to Indiana with this bill
Your latest online purchase could show up on your doorstep in a robot if House Bill 1072 becomes law.
The bill written by Rep. Holli Sullivan, R-Evansville, opens the door to autonomous delivery robots if companies meet certain requirements.
The technology, referred to in the bill as a "personal delivery device," has already become a staple on campus at Purdue University, and representatives from both FedEx and Amazon spoke in favor of the bill.
The Team Behind the 'Dancing Robots' that Went Viral
Boston Dynamics is an American technology company that has developed a series of robots designed to move in ways similar to humans and animals.
The company has spent years building robots with useful abilities like walking, moving through rough terrain and picking things up with their hands. The machines are designed to be used in work settings to perform a number of different tasks .
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Videos of some of the robots – especially those that look like animals when they move – have been popular on the internet in the past.
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