Top news of the week: 09.07.2022.
Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators
Wisy’s platform eases supply-chain issues by tracking inventory
Toward Benchmarking of Long-Term Spatio-Temporal Maps of Pedestrian Flows for Human-Aware Navigation
Despite the advances in mobile robotics, the introduction of autonomous robots in human-populated environments is rather slow. One of the fundamental reasons is the acceptance of robots by ...
Bio-Inspired Vision and Gesture-Based Robot-Robot Interaction for Human-Cooperative Package Delivery
This research presents a novel bio-inspired framework for two robots interacting together for a cooperative package delivery task with a human-in the-loop. It contributes to eliminating the ...
What B.C. researchers think robots can learn from therapists
According to British Columbia-based researchers, robots have a lot to learn from therapists.
Responsive soft robots inspired by sputtering ketchup bottle
A smartly designed pressure valve allows soft robots to respond to their environment without the need for computer control, reveal AMOLF researchers in their article in the journal Matter. ...
Developing Intelligent Robots that Grasp Affordance
Humans and robots operating in unstructured environments both need to classify objects through haptic exploration and use them in various tasks, but currently they differ greatly in their ...
Robotic lightning bugs take flight
Taking a cue from nature, they built electroluminescent soft artificial muscles for flying, insect-scale robots. The tiny artificial muscles that control the robots’ wings emit …
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Led by Yilun Zhou; published at CoRL (Conference on Robot Learning) 2021. Arxiv Paper, Code We look at how cognitive theories of human concept learning should inform human-robot …