Enlarge (credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii) The nearby volcano blackened the sky and swallowed the city in clouds of ash; centuries later, robot dogs now prowl the ruins, guarding the city’s dead against the ravages of time. That’s not a movie plot. It’s what’s actually happening at the 2, 000-year-old Roman ruins of Pompeii, in […]
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Enlarge / With extra-wide tracks and a bunch of other clever features, the Benthic Rover II can roam the seafloor for years at a time. (credit: Madison Pobis | MBARI) The Benthic Rover II is the size of a compact car, although it rocks fat treads, making it more like a scientific tank. That, along […]
Enlarge (credit: Piaggio Fast Forward) When Amazon introduced its home robot Astro earlier this year, it first showcased the robot following behind a person. It’s a simple idea that has captured people’s imaginations with depictions in science fiction, like R2-D2 and BB-8 from Star Wars, and in reality, with research projects like DARPA’s robotic pack […]
Enlarge / Not sure how those joints will work… (credit: Tesla ) Not content to be an automaker or even an energy company, Tesla now wants people to think of it as a robotics company}. At Tesla’s “AI Day” presentation yesterday, CEO Elon Musk made the surprise announcement that the company is working on a […]
Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ humanoid research platform, is all scratched up after some parkour practice. [credit: Boston Dynamics ] New Boston Dynamics video alert! The robot developer and YouTube sensation is giving us another peek at its robot-building efforts, this time by having its humanoid robotics research platform, Atlas, do some more parkour. Besides releasing a […]
Enlarge / Today, in robots-and-fireworks news. (credit: Getty Images ) Establishing human-robot harmony in the workplace isn’t always easy. Beyond the common fear of automation taking human jobs, robots sometimes simply mess up. When this happens, reestablishing trust between robots and their human colleagues can be a tricky affair. However, new research sheds some light […]
Enlarge / Ford is adding artificial intelligence to its robotic assembly lines. In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the first moving assembly line, an innovation that made piecing together new vehicles faster and more efficient. Some hundred years later, Ford is now using artificial intelligence to eke more speed out of today’s manufacturing lines. […]
Theresa Arevalo had been in high school when she {} completing shingles in her brother’s building firm. “it is a fine art,” she states of mudding–employing and smoothing drywall. “Like a cake, then you need to provide the illusion that the wall is level.” Fast-forward a couple of decades: Arevalo currently operates at Canvas, a […]
Ocado, the U.K. online grocer which has increasingly marketed its own automatic and ecommerce warehouse technologies to other niches across the globe , has obtained two U.S. robotics businesses. The acquisitions can probably reinforce its Ocado’s {} , letting the business and another supermarkets it functions to replace several present warehouse employees. Additionally, it indicates […]