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Zurich-based startup Rivr announced a new partnership with New York City-based parcel delivery service Veho to launch its four-legged—or four-wheeled, rather—robots in Austin. The pilot program, which ...
A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made ...
Meet Sophia, a social robot created by former Disney Imagineer David Hanson. Modeled in part after Audrey Hepburn and Hanson's wife, the robot was built to mimic social behaviors and inspire ...
Let’s discuss what would be needed to achieve this. A robot is a complex machine with two main components: a body and an information processing unit. The body has a morphology that determines the ...
Well, the Goby robot will show you, as you remotely control it via a simple online dashboard. Named after a feisty little fish, the Goby was designed by software engineer Richard LeGrand and ...
Some of the robots fell in the first leg of the race, but they did complete the more than 21 km race. In one small step for robot-kind, almost two dozen humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans ...
Humanoid robots ran a half-marathon against humans for the first time on Saturday in Beijing. The race highlighted how far humanoid robots have advanced, and how far they still have to go.
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile ...
What if your next off-road ride wasn’t on a motorcycle or ATV but on a robot that moves like a wolf? Kawasaki Heavy Industries has introduced something that feels straight out of a video game ...
Robot vacuum cleaners have changed the way homes are cleaned. These compact, smart machines are designed to clean floors with little to no human effort. From tiles and hardwood to carpets and ...
Clever engineers at a Chinese video company called HTX Studio built a tiny, swiveling robot that can shoot pieces of gum right into your mouth. In a video that made the rounds on social media over ...
Robot backflips are becoming commonplace, but a front flip is significantly more difficult than a backflip, as any gymnast can attest. Unlike humans, robots rely on precise sensor data and motor ...