Top news of the week: 07.01.2023.
The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
Sidd Srinivasa, the Director of Amazon Robotics AI, described the problem of stowing items as “a nightmare... stow fundamentally breaks all existing industrial robotic thinking.” But over ...
Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01
On January 1st, 2018, I made predictions about self driving cars, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, and about progress in the space industry. In Q3 electric …
How Tesla, Google and Others Are Making Robots More Like Us
Tesla is making AI-powered humanoid robots. Google wants to give its AI brain a bot body. Robotics are moving fast, and every day, droids are becoming more like us.
A study of error diversity in robotic swarms for task partitioning in foraging tasks
Often in swarm robotics, an assumption is made that all robots in the swarm behave the same and will have a similar (if not the same) error model. However, in reality, this is not the case, ...
Mighty Morphin’ Turtle Robot Goes Amphibious by Shifting Leg Shape
A turtle-inspired robot can morph its legs to move from land to water and back
Fully-funded PhD studentship on social robots, consciousness and value-aware AI
We are still looking for one PhD student to join our team! The AIRO group (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, airo.ugent.be) of IDLab-imec (idlab.technology) at Ghent University are ...
Science Magazine robot videos 2022 (+ breakthrough of the year)
by Daniel Carrillo-Zapata Image generated by DALLE 2 using prompt Did you manage to watch all the holiday robot videos of 2022? If you did but are still hungry for more, I have a …
How to Combat The Great Resignation and Keep Talent with Robots
As the dust is settling on the 2020 global pandemic, many workers find themselves in a unique position. People are quitting their jobs at an alarming rate.