Top news of the week: 26.01.2022.
Robotics
Electric Sheep Robotics Brings Automation to America’s Biggest Crop
Electric Sheep Robotics Secures Tiger Global-Led Series A Funding to Meet Property Management and Landscape Industry Demands
Robot science fiction books of 2021
Termination Shock Machinehood Stupid Machine Day Zero Fugitive Telemetry Fan Fiction A Psalm for the Wild-Built Let’s start with the scifi book I most frequently recommended to …
An inside look at how one person can control a swarm of 130 robots
Usually, one person controls one drone. In this case, virtual reality and artificial intelligence allowed one person to direct a large swarm.
Legged Robots Learn to Hike Harsh Terrain
The research that the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zürich has published showcases a control system for a legged robot to evaluate how reliable the exteroceptive information that it's getting ...
Pay Misty for me
I’ve met with Misty’s founders a number of times over the years, often in hotel suites at CES where the company was showing off their humanoid robot’s latest capability. The firm started ...
Do Robotic Tutors Compromise the Social-Emotional Development of Children?
Social robots are reported to hold great potential for education. However, both scholars and key stakeholders worry about children’s social-emotional development being compromised. ...
Hitting the Books: What autonomous vehicles mean for tomorrow's workforce
In "The Work of the Future," an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers exam the disconnect between improvements in technology and the benefits derived by workers from those advancements.
