The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution

Boston Dynamics, a robotics company owned by Hyundai Motor Group, has equipped its Atlas humanoids with hands that have only three fingers. They can form a palm that allows the robot to lift boxes or ...
Inc

This Startup Raised $300 Million to Build a Better AI Brain for Robots

Skild is building a “general purpose” robot brain, essentially a prefabricated AI model that can go into pretty much any general purpose robot, for less cost than custom-built robot software. The ...
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AI model could boost robot intelligence via object recognition

Stanford researchers have developed an innovative computer vision model that recognizes the real-world functions of objects, ...
ExtremeTech

Researchers use Kinect to create precog robots that know when you want a beer

Researchers at Cornell University have been hard at work using Microsoft's Kinect to help robots predict human behavior. Thanks to the Kinect's ability to track human motion and identify objects in ...
Hackaday

3D Pen Used To Build Cleaning Robot That Picks Up Socks

Your average 3D printer is just a nozzle shooting out hot plastic while being moved around by a precise robotic mechanism. There’s nothing stopping you replacing the robot and moving around the ...
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Paper-thin magnetic muscles bring origami robots to life for medical use

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them ...
techtimes

Real-Life Gundam? Japanese Engineers Create Robot for Space Exploration, Disaster Relief

A Tokyo startup created ARCHAX, a $3 million robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the popular mecha-anime series. Bruce Tang from Unsplash Engineers in Japan have developed a colossal ...
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Study captures how humans touch unfamiliar objects, offering lessons for human–robot interaction

To estimate the weight of a rock, you pick it up. Is it rough, or smooth? You run a finger over it. We're constantly gathering information through our sense of touch, which is closely connected to how ...
Ars Technica

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot grows a set of hands, attempts construction work

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas—the world’s most advanced humanoid robot—is learning some new tricks. The company has finally given Atlas some proper hands, and in Boston Dynamics’ latest YouTube video, Atlas ...