A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has built a bridge between large language models and robots that promises more humanlike gestures while dispensing with traditional hardware-dependent controls.
A science fiction/science fact review of Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove, the fictionalized version of the Hughes Glomar Explorer expedition 50 years before the OceanGate Titan tragedy....
VFX artists look at the robots in Automata. Read, learn, argue
A howling 'monster wolf' is scaring wild bears away from the city of Takikawa.
A 420-pound, 5-foot-2 robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD has announced.
The mayor says they are paying less per hour than the city's minimum wage to lease the robot
A first of its kind factory that will build humanoid robots is set to open in Salem, Oregon
The spherical device is able to remotely gauge hazards and plan an approach for these responders before they enter areas hit by disasters like wildfires, chemical spills, crashes and potentially even war zones.
NASA is eyeing a privately built 'Apollo' space robot for continued investment — and future space missions.
A new wormy robot could help with jet engine inspections at GE Aerospace, according to an announcement this week. Sensiworm, short for “Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm,” is the newest outgrowth in GE’s line of worm robots, which includes a “giant earthworm” for tunneling and the “Pipeworm” for...
While participants said they believed human preachers were more credible, it was still a close contest with the robots. On a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being most credible, the robot preachers received an average credibility rating of 3.12, compared with 3.51 for human preachers.
Spectrum News 1 got an exclusive look at “Spot,” a robotic dog that joined the workforce at the Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo for the first time, helping take on more time-consuming and repetitive tasks, freeing up its human workforce to do more specialized tasks.
A look back at some robotic inventions that didn't quite get there.
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A new ferroelectric polymer that efficiently converts electrical energy into mechanical strain has been developed by Penn State researchers. This material, showing potential for use in medical devices and robotics, overcomes traditional piezoelectric limitations.
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued Approval in Principle (AIP) certificates to Saildrone, including the first AIP for a 33-foot (10-meter) commercial uncrewed surface vehicle (USV), the Saildrone Voyager.
