Top news of the week: 29.12.2021.
Robotics
Why the Air Force wants to put lidar on robot dogs
Putting lidar on robotic dogs or drones could give the Air Force a tool for mapping damaged buildings or the site of an aircraft accident.
How AI and robotics are reconstructing a 2,000-year-old fresco in Pompeii
Computer scientists and archeologists are working together to solve this ancient puzzle.
How to prevent mass extinction in the ocean using AI, robots and 3D printers
The ocean is the most defining physical feature of Earth, covering 71% of the surface of this planet. It is home to incredible biodiversity, ranging from microscopic bacteria and viruses to ...
Robot as Legal Person: Electronic Personhood in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
This paper seeks to investigate the proposal to create a legal (electronic) personhood for robots with artificial intelligence based on the European Parliament resolution with ...
Modeling a Controlled-Floating Space Robot for In-Space Services: A Beginner’s Tutorial
Ground-based applications of robotics and autonomous systems (RASs) are fast advancing, and there is a growing appetite for developing cost-effective RAS solutions for in situ servicing, ...
'A Quadrillion Mainframes On Your Lap' (ieee.org) 32
"Your laptop is way more powerful than you might realize," writes long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. "People often rhapsodize about how much more computer power we have now compared ...
Control of Thruster-Assisted, Bipedal Legged Locomotion of the Harpy Robot
Fast constraint satisfaction, frontal dynamics stabilization, and avoiding fallovers in dynamic, bipedal walkers can be pretty challenging. The challenges include underactuation, ...
Brain-computer interface startups augmenting human body
The brain-computer interface market is all-encompassing, but a major promise is connecting robotic parts to compensate for human frailties.