Social robots are designed to interact with humans in a meaningful manner and play an increasing role within the field of human-computer interaction. They have several potential societal applications, ...

RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms with ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to TrendForce research, the global smart manufacturing market will reach US$620 billion by 2026. Amongst the new technologies used in the burgeoning smart ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a preprint paper, a Google and MIT team investigate whether pretrained ...

So, you need a robot that climbs stairs. What shape should that robot be? Should it have two legs, like a person? Or six, like an ant? Choosing the right shape will be vital for your robot's ability ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category has gone in this sixteenth edition to Professor Takeo Kanade for developing mathematical ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter ...

Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the agricultural industry. Some benefits they have over outdoor farms include the ...

Chinese cloud giant Alibaba Cloud has developed a thin-client PC that will alleviate the need for powerful desktop hardware to perform compute-intensive tasks. Dubbed the cloud computer, the ...