What does Google's parent company Alphabet want with robots? Well, it would like them to clean up around the office, for a start.
The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating "a general-purpose learning robot" — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google's Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
Sky's the limit for Sky Ridge robots | Highlandsranchherald.net
Already serving as one of the state's leaders in robot-assisted surgery, Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree is making a major investment in the future by building a special robotics unit.
Sky Ridge CEO Kirk McCarty said robot-assisted surgery allows doctors to perform a variety of procedures with more precision, flexibility and control than is possible with conventional techniques.
MIT Scientist Taught Robots How To Sabotage or Help
MIT scientists say that " for the first time ever " they have taught robots social skills. Robotic advancement is on the rise and automation continues to spread in all sectors from health to shipping, and everything in between.
Despite the many advances made in robotics, AI, and machine learning, even the most complex of robots can not go beyond their programming and perform basic social interactions. Social skills in humans are tricky to code into a robot.
Record Number of Assembly Line Robots Ordered in 2021
For the first nine months of 2021, orders for industrial robots climbed 37% as compared to the same period in 2020, according to Reuters . A total of 29,000 robots were ordered to fulfill roles. Companies have cited shortages of human workers as well as high demands.
The implementation of robots in a factory or factory-like setting to this extent has been a long time coming. In his video series Robotics , Dr. John Long , Professor of Cognitive Science on the John Guy Vassar Chair of Natural History at Vassar College, said it’s taken more than 80 years.
Robots can use their own noises for echolocation | New Scientist
Most robots, whether they walk, roll or fly create some sort of background noise. Flying drones, in particular, are extremely noisy. Jesper Rindom Jensen at Aalborg University in Denmark and his colleagues suggest robots …
Hundreds of Tiny Robots Link To Do What One Robot Alone Cannot
Nature engineers everything to the highest standards on the planet. That’s why it has inspired many inventions and designs, a procedure that is known as biomimicry. Some of these creations are used often, and you may not even realize they are nature-inspired technologies, for example,
A natural history writer named Janine Benyus coined the term “biomimicry” in 1998. In her book “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature,” she writes:
Self-driving robots key to future of our food | ZDNet
"Many people think that autonomous tractors are some magic solution, but at the end of the day, they're just machinery -- your autonomous farm can only be as good as your farm management data, and that's why this acquisition is driving the autonomous farming revolution forward," says Boaz Bachar,
A soft magnetic pixel robot that can be programmed to take different shapes
Magnetic soft robots are systems that can change shape or perform different actions when a magnetic field is applied to them. These robots have numerous advantageous characteristics, including a wireless drive, high flexibility and infinite endurance.
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently devised a new technique for creating shape-programmable magnetic soft robots.
The Next Robots on the Moon | airspacemag.com | Air & Space Magazine
Dawn has just broken when a handful of vehicles leave the hangar doors of the Intuitive Machines (IM) production facility, ease their way into traffic, and drive to Ellington Field, an air and space facility outside Houston where the young company tests engines for a spacecraft that will land on
Happening on Twitter
Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google's offices https://t.co/7jmqjPaXPS https://t.co/EF9oKnnWq7 verge (from New York) Fri Nov 19 15:54:18 +0000 2021
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