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“The Wild Robot” is animation veteran Chris Sander’s adaptation of Peter Brown’s book about a sentient robot stranded on a remote island. Sound work involved creating the sonic world of ...
Medical robots controlled by edible computer chips could deliver drugs inside the body, say researchers. Similar robots could also be used to deliver drugs or vital nutrients to at-risk animals ...
A fleet of giant 3D-printing robots is now working on the largest community of 3D-printed homes in the world, with reservations for the houses being scheduled to begin soon.
The operator can even hear the robot work, with microphones located near the surgical instruments. And a touch-screen allows a 3D graphic picture of the arms to be manipulated in any direction.
Elon Musk said Thursday night at Tesla’s AI Day that the company is building a humanoid robot, and will probably have a prototype next year. “It’s basically going to start dealing with work ...
More than a decade later, Amazon now has more than 16,000 people working on robotics as its technology has become more sophisticated, including Proteus, a mobile robot that can move autonomously.
Instead of replacing people, however, as some earlier industrial robots have, Sawyer is built to work alongside them. For Sawyer is a collaborative robot, also known as a “cobot”.
Robots are going to play an integral role in hospital care soon. At least that's what Julie Shah — an MIT professor who leads the Interactive Robotics Group at the university's Computer Science ...
Computer scientist Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science in Purdue University’s College of Science, is working to make sure the future is a little more “Big Hero 6” and a little less ...
According to the International Federation of Robotics, unit sales of industrial robots grew 15% in 2015, while revenues increased 9% to $11bn. In 2016 turnover in North America rose by 14%, to $1.8bn.
Cable channel USA Network postponed the season finale of its computer hacker thriller "Mr. Robot" for a week because of a "graphic scene" similar to the fatal shootings on live television of two ...
Alexandra Lange writes on Susan Kare, who designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures.