MIT's Cheetah robots can now play soccer. The university calls the robots 'virtually indestructible' and 'inexpensive and lightweight.'
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently unveiled a new video of its Mini Cheetah robot , demonstrating that the four-legged android can now dribble a soccer ball, run and jump.
“Eventually, I’m hoping we could have a robotic dog race through an obstacle course, where each team controls a mini cheetah with different algorithms, and we can see which strategy is more effective,” Sangbae Kim, Director of Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT, said at the time .
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This robotic arm slows down to avoid the uncanny valley – TechCrunch
Robotic arms can move fast enough to snatch thrown objects right out of the air … but should they? Not unless you want them to unnerve the humans they’re interacting with, according to work out of Disney Research. Roboticists there found that slowing a robot’s reaction time made it feel more normal to people .
Disney has, of course, been interested in robotics for decades, and the automatons in its theme parks are among the most famous robots in the world. But there are few opportunities for those robots to interact directly with people. Hence a series of research projects at its research division aimed at safe and non-weird robot-human coexistence.
Streamlining Safety with Robotics | EHS Today
Safety is always a primary consideration as manufacturers implement robots or begin testing the boundaries by placing robots in new less guarded applications.
It is a viable concern. These are heavy pieces of equipment moving with significant force and determination to complete the programmed task. If the robot fails to see a human or even another object temporarily placed in its calculated path, the results can be disastrous .
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Realtime Robotics is determined to change robotic interactions with its new offering. The firm's technology consists of a next-generation specialized computer processor coupled with state-of-the-art software algorithms that empower robots to evaluate millions of alternative motion plans to avoid collisions and choose the optimal path all within milliseconds. The processor can check up to 800,000 motions at 30 frames/second.
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Soft Robots of the Future May Depend on New Materials that Conduct Electricity, Sense Damage and
Robots used to be restricted to heavy lifting or fine detail work in factories. Now Boston Dynamics' nimble four-legged robot, Spot , is available for companies to lease to carry out various real-world jobs, a sign of just how common interactions between humans and machines have become in recent years.
And while Spot is versatile and robust, it's what society thinks of as a traditional robot, a mix of metal and hard plastic. Many researchers are convinced that soft robots capable of safe physical interaction with people – for example, providing in-home assistance by gripping and moving objects – will join hard robots to populate the future.
How Humans Tell Robots What to Do - Robotics Business Review
The modern production floor is changing rapidly as robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence converge to enhance productivity in the manufacturing sector. One of the key drivers of convergence is the combination of technological advancements in robotics and communication technologies, which has led to an expansion in applications including wireless interfaces in industrial robotics.
The first industrial robot was a robotic arm called Unimate #001, which relied on hydraulic actuators for control. Industrial robotics advanced further in the 1970s with the invention of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). During this period, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) was one-directional, where controllers pressed buttons, and the robots responded.
Fleet of food delivery robots launched at University of Houston | abc13.com
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Sophia the Robot Says She Doesn't Have Sex, Confusing Creators
Last week, world-famous robot Sophia shared with the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that she — or it, or whatever — doesn't have sex .
In case you missed it, someone asked Sophia last week whether it had ever been in love or was even capable of doing so.
"Sophia was running on her AI chat system during the Q&A portion of this press conference; however, after looking through her chat history, it is clear she did not fully understand this question," Pundley told Futurism via a company spokesperson. "This response was pulled from her offline database based on the few words she was able to understand. There was no serious reasoning by Sophia when answering this particular question; however, that is not the case for every question she was
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These robots can do more than play soccer... MIT made an army of tiny, 'virtually indestructible' cheetah robots t… https://t.co/9xIm08J9jr tariqnasheed (from Los Angeles) Sun Nov 10 19:42:14 +0000 2019
MIT made an army of tiny, 'virtually indestructible' cheetah robots that can backflip and even play with a soccer b… https://t.co/UQ8bJMSTCY businessinsider (from New York, NY) Fri Nov 08 16:01:08 +0000 2019
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