Consider a search-and-rescue mission to find a hiker lost in the woods. Rescuers might want to deploy a squad of wheeled robots to roam the forest, perhaps with the aid of drones scouring the scene from above. The benefits of a robot team are clear. But orchestrating that team is no simple matter. How to ensure the robots aren't duplicating each other's efforts or wasting energy on a convoluted search trajectory?
MIT researchers have designed an algorithm to ensure the fruitful cooperation of information-gathering robot teams. Their approach relies on balancing a tradeoff between data collected and energy expended — which eliminates the chance that a robot might execute a wasteful maneuver to gain just a smidgeon of information. The researchers say this assurance is vital for robot teams' success in complex, unpredictable environments.
A wave of robots are hitting the kitchen
They can't instantly whip up an Earl Grey or pasta al fiorella like the "Star Trek" replicator, but robot chefs are having a moment.
Chef Robotics — a startup creating a robot to handle commercial kitchen tasks — just raised $7.7m , per TechCrunch .
Though the actual bot has yet to be revealed, Chef Robotics promises it will increase production and consistency, waste less food, and save restaurants money.
… are struggling to find workers. Demand for robot chefs also increased during the pandemic as businesses looked to decrease human contact.
Autonomous food delivery robots from Russia's Yandex take to the sidewalks in Ann Arbor,
Two Yandex Rovers await their next delivery mission outside Amer's Deli in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Russian tech company aims to add to its roster of local food delivery offerings by fall.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — On a recent Friday afternoon, a delivery robot made its way along a crowded sidewalk on State Street. It made an abrupt stop in front of Amer's Deli, spun itself 90 degrees and backed into a parking space with the precise movements of a Revolutionary War soldier.
Robots are the new normal - Humans should embrace, rather than fear, robot co-workers |
According to a recent report from the World Economic Forum, 85 million jobs could be lost and displaced by new technologies in the next five years. It’s no surprise that workers, particularly in manufacturing, worry how these developments will affect their jobs. Here, Nigel Smith, President and CEO of TM Robotics , explains why humans workers shouldn’t fear industrial robots, but rather see them as a bringer of new opportunities.
The robot revolution has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with manufacturers opting for automation, rather than crowded factory floors. As technology continues to evolve, and many industries try to keep up with the latest developments, a common fear looms over many workers — will robots take our jobs?
Ultra-tiny nanomachines are redefining how we think of robots | New Scientist
BACK in the early 2000s, an awesome thing happened in the New X-Men comics. Our mutant heroes had been battling giant robots called Sentinels for years, but suddenly these mechanical overlords spawned a new threat: Nano-Sentinels! Not content to rule Earth with their metal fists, these tiny robots invaded our bodies at the microscopic level . Infected humans were slowly converted into machines, cell by cell.
Now, a new wave of extremely odd robots is making at least part of the Nano-Sentinels story come true. Using exotic fabrication materials like squishy hydrogels and elastic polymers, researchers are …
Boston Dynamics: Dancing Robots are Grooving to Different Genres
We are used to watching the usual robotic walk or the traditional robotic dance steps on television for many years. Now with the enhancement of AI-based technologies, we are excited to watch dancing robots grooving to different genres with humanistic moves. Yes, Boston Dynamics has once again surprised the audience with their three favorite AI robots having the best robot dance in recent years.
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 specialized in a series of three mobile AI robots popularly known as Spot, Atlas, and Handle. These three robots have shot less than three minutes of robot dance video grooving to the 1962 hit "Do you love me?" by The Contours. It is unbelievable that this mesmerizing video has attracted more than 30 million views in the first week.
The Arroyo Bridge was designed by students, built by robots
Perched over a ravine in the mountains of Los Angeles is an innovative new pedestrian bridge designed by architecture students and built with the help of new robotic technology. The bridge is an example of how the construction of bridges and buildings can be rapidly accelerated and pushed to new limits of design.
Originally the subject of a design studio at the University of Southern California School of Architecture seven years ago, the project evolved from a speculative exercise into an actual piece of urban infrastructure. Construction on the project was completed just before the pandemic, and images are now being released publicly for the first time.
Robots helping Lexington Two students learn in the classroom | wltx.com
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — One Lexington Two school is helping students learn by using robots in the classroom.
Savannah Kelly is a second grade teacher at Saluda River Academy of the Arts . She says around March, they introduced ABII to the classroom.
"This robot helps kids with reading, and it goes through different lessons with the child, and it kind of monitors that they're getting the answers correct or incorrect and kind of leads them and helps them so it's kind of like another teacher in the classroom," said Kelly.
Happening on Twitter
Robots are replacing wheelchairs, and helping people living with disabilities walk again. Watch the full video here… https://t.co/dS5yBlOI65 CNBC (from Englewood Cliffs, NJ) Thu May 13 09:12:00 +0000 2021
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