New this season at Virginia Tech football games: the machines we all fear will one day take over the world.
Hokies cheerleaders once did a push-up for each point scored by the home team. This season, they've been replaced by a dog-like robot meant to show off the university's top-notch engineering program! Videos for Virginia Tech ' s Touchdown Robot Virginia Tech now has a pushup robot NBC Sports!! It's a little creepy, a little cool and definitely unique.
The quadrupedal machine, made by Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics, gets carried into the end zone after each score on a wooden platform, and with a PhD student manning the controls nearby, twitches its animatronic legs in what can charitably be described as a push-up. (To be fair, the Hokies this season can charitably be described as a football team.)
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"We would like to make robots that can walk or run like animals or like humans," said Kaveh Akbari Hamed, a Virginia Tech assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
Not to change the topic here:
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Humanoid robots have come a long, long way since Honda's Asimo took a nasty tumble down the stairs . Heck, we're seeing full gymnastics routines from the Boston Dynamics Atlas now.
But why should robots be limited by their legs, even if that's their primary propulsion? That's a question Caltech is toying with on its new LEONARDO robot , short for "LEgs ONboARD drOne," and this is the first real video of it in action (via BoingBoing ).
Simply put, it's a relatively lightweight walking robot that balances more like a drone than a typical bipedal bot — because it's literally got a set of drone propellers instead of arms. (It reminds us of this University of Tokyo bot with a quadcopter for a head.) Perhaps it's not as impressive as Disney's flying robotic stuntmen , but how often do you see a robot ballerina stand on one leg and twirl?
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The Mabu robot, with its small yellow body and friendly expression, serves, literally, as the face of the care management startup Catalia Health! Britain' s Gatwick Airport Is Experimenting With Robot Valets to Park Cars jalopnik.com!! The most innovative part of the company's solution, however, lies behind Mabu's large blue eyes.
Catalia Health's software incorporates expertise in psychology, artificial intelligence, and medical treatment plans to help patients manage their chronic conditions! Flipboard: Virginia Tech's terrifying touchdown robot ...flipboard.com/@WashPost/ virginia - tech '...touchdown - ...to...Virginia Tech's terrifying touchdown robot wants to do push-ups, not take over the world The Washington Post - By Jacob Bogage New this season at Virginia Tech football games: the machines we all fear will one day take over the world. Hokies cheerleaders once did a push-up for each point scored by the home team.!! The result is a sophisticated robot companion that uses daily conversations to give patients tips, medication reminders, and information on their condition while relaying relevant data to care providers! Duke vs. Virginia Tech - Game Videos - September 27, 2019 ...Duke runs double pass for touchdown (0:21) ...Virginia Tech has robot do pushups on scoring plays (0:21) Virginia Tech shows off its pushup robot during its loss vs. Duke. (0:21)!! The information exchange can also take place on patients' mobile phones.
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"The way we deliver health care doesn't scale to the needs we have, so I was looking for technologies that might help with that," Kidd says.
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“A common theme emerging in all of these applications is the need for reliability; now that people are seriously such autonomous systems, we are keen to understand how and when they fail.
“This has been trickier than one would have imagined, in part due to the ways in which we have come to this level of technical ability - through the use of data-driven learning, online adaptation, and combination of complex pieces that have to parallel the infinite richness of the world in which the robot operates.”
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"Personally, a direction I am very excited by is the use of robots in the operating theatre, to help surgeons with tasks where sensor-guided motion can help them achieve improved outcomes.
Mr Ramamoorthy said in order to achieve a “useful level of safety”, it would be necessary to weave together many threads of research activity.
Quite a lot has been going on:
ABB Says This Mobile Autonomous Laboratory Robot Can Work Alongside Humans
Through a press release, the company said that robots could work 24 hours a day, and repetitive tasks could be completed up to 50% faster with automation.
Segura added this would leave skilled medical workers able to focus on other, more valuable roles in the laboratory.
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STUTTGART, Germany — The rectangular gray boxes arrayed around the floor at the gymnastics world championships this week are easy enough to ignore.
But these little boxes, 30 of them in all, hold outsize significance: According to Morinari Watanabe, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, their presence at the worlds signals "the beginning of the new history of gymnastics."
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Amid the displays of athleticism and artistry at this week's championships, there also has emerged a development in technology that could hint at the trajectory of officiating across the sports landscape.
Each of the gray boxes keeping watch in Stuttgart, designed by the Japanese company Fujitsu and about the size and shape of a Wi-Fi router, contained a set of three-dimensional laser sensors that tracked the movements of each of the 547 gymnasts from 92 nations participating this week. That data was fed to an artificial intelligence system, accessible to the human judges, that measured and analyzed skeletal positions, speeds and angles — some of them unavailable or simply missed by the judges — as the athletes went through their movements.
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