Damasio’s paper, coauthored with BCI researcher Kingson Man, is a model based on philosophy and science of mind paired with accumulating research into robotics technology. They published the paper in Nature Machine Intelligence , a title usually meant as “ Nature ’s [Journal of] Machine Intelligence” but in this case, strangely prescient.
A robot with a sense of its own “health” isn’t the most novel thing—when a car tells you the oil is low or the engine is overheating, that’s a direct self-preservation behavior. There’s just no in-between layer of circuitry to model thinking or prioritizing. Instead, the car has sensors only, and those sensors flag errors in order for the vehicle’s operator to address them.
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Watch a swarm of robots build a timber tower from scratch
Students at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have developed a system of robots that communicate to jointly construct complex timber structures.
Their paper, entitled Distributed Robotic Assembly System for In-Situ Timber Construction , envisions such robotic systems as a low-cost, faster alternative to current construction methods.
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From flavored fireworks to 50-ton jellies, these 'experience designers' will explode your senses
Growing Number of AI Robots Take On Waste Processing and Recycling - Karma
AMP Robotics has developed Artificial Intelligence-powered robots that can identify, sort and process waste. The company is the latest in a growing number of startups that are looking to automate, cut costs and improve efficiencies in the waste processing and recycling system.
Founded in 2015, the Denver, Colorado-based company raised $16 million in series A on Thursday led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total funding to $22.6 million.
The AI-powered system can process municipal solid waste, waste from electronics and construction debris at a speed of 80 items per minute, twice as fast as humans, the company claims .
Robots rush in where humans fear to tread | Financial Times
Unlike their Soviet predecessors, though, today’s engineers have access to a growing army of helpful robots that can help with everything from decommissioning to disaster recovery, keeping humans out of harm’s way.
“Robotics in this context is about exploration, to access different areas and get a better understanding of what is inside them, what the [radiation] dose rates are, and exactly where the melted fuel is, so you can define the clean-up operation better,” says Professor Barry Lennox, a nuclear decommissioning expert at Manchester’s robotics department.
Not to change the topic here:
Two-thirds of employees would trust a robot boss more than a real one | World Economic Forum
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7 Heart-Melting Robots That Hopefully Won't End Humanity
Have a look at these 7 incredibly cute robots that wouldn't be out of place in the Star Wars universe — a place where robots are designed to be so cute they sell a crazy amount of toys.
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Look at this little fella go. The Primer V2 robot, developed by Japanese roboticist Masahiko Yamaguchi, is able to ride a bicycle in much the same way as a human.
As Design Boom explains, Yamaguchi attached a gyroscope to the robot, which allows it to calculate how sharply it needs to turn in order to compensate and remain balanced.
Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog is finally doing useful work
For years, people have joked that Boston Dynamics is more a maker of viral videos than of robots. The company has dazzled (and sometimes creeped out) the internet with clips of its robotic dog Spot walking, climbing stairs, jumping, dancing, and gyrating— but not doing any real work.
In September, though, the company (which was previously part of Alphabet’s X research arm) started leasing Spots to companies that want to put it to work, at least in pilot projects. (It reportedly plans to build 1,000 Spots for customers by mid-2020.) The first to debut a full application using Spot is a German-American firm called HoloBuilder .
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