Delivery services may be able to overcome snow, rain, heat and the gloom of night, but a new class of legged robots is not far behind.
Their test robot successfully traversed sand, mud, hiking trails, tall grass and dirt piles without falling. It also outperformed alternative systems in adapting to a weighted backpack thrown onto its top or to slippery, oily slopes.
'We Don't Need Another Michelangelo': In Italy, It's Robots' Turn to Sculpt - The New York Times
CARRARA, Italy — For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of Italian sculptors like Michelangelo, Canova, Bernini and, most recently, ABB2.
Carving with pinpoint precision, and at least some of the artistic flair of its more celebrated (and human) predecessors, ABB2, a 13-foot, zinc-alloy robotic arm, extended its spinning wrist and diamond-coated finger toward a gleaming piece of white marble.
Robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster - 60 Minutes
More than 10 years have passed since a monster earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan and triggered what became, after Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
When three of its six reactors melted down, hot fuel turned to molten lava and burned through steel walls and concrete floors. To this day, no one knows exactly where inside the reactor buildings the fuel is. And it is so deadly, no human can go inside to look for it.
Facebook reveals AI development to help robots move in uncharted territory - The Washington Post
Facebook developed what it calls a foundational "breakthrough" in the race to create more humanlike robots: software that enables machines to learn to walk like toddlers.
Humans are very efficient at maneuvering. As kids, we figure out how to adjust our stride and cadence to trek through mud, water, and up and down hills with ease. Through trial and error, we adapt, figuring out the best ways to move our feet according to real-time situations.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Why Amazon is naming new warehouse robots after Muppets.
Shortly before Prime Day in June, Amazon announced it was developing two robots for its infamously demanding distribution centers.
Amazon wants us to see the Bert and Ernie robots in the context of Bezos's pledge to make the company "Earth's Best Employer.
As IEEE's Spectrum argues, these robots do not seem innovative and may even be outdated relative to those of other companies. What is new are the nicknames, which don't even line up to the Sesame Street characters' personalities.
Global Military Robots and Autonomous Systems Market Report 2021 - ResearchAndMarkets.com
Global Military Robots and Autonomous Systems Report 2021 examines, analyzes, and predicts the evolution of airborne military robot systems, technologies, markets, and outlays (expenditures) over the next 8 years
Military robots are autonomous robots or remote-controlled mobile robots created for military functions, from transport to search & rescue and strike mission. Some of these robotic systems are presently in use, and several such robots are under development.
Self-driving looking less like Elon Musk, more like Domino's pizza robots
As companies like Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk come to Austin, Texas, the booming city and new tech hub has grown so much it has struggled to make good on its "keep it weird" motto.
But since early June, when residents of the South Congress, Downtown, or Travis Heights neighborhoods order pizza from Southside Flying Pizza, their pies might arrive inside a three-wheeled robot — the REV-1. But it is no full self-driving Tesla.
Why Scientists Love Making Robots Build Ikea Furniture | WIRED
In recent years, roboticists have been finding that building Ikea furniture is actually a great way to teach robots how to handle the chaos of the real world. One group of researchers coded a simulator in which virtual robot arms used trial and error to put chairs together .
Nikolaidis and his colleagues began by studying how different people construct an Ikea bookcase. Instead of providing them that instruction sheet with pictographs, they had the subjects improvise the order in which they configured the supporting boards for the frame, as well as the shelf inserts.
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