(Credit: onurdongel/Getty Images)New work in robotics research at MIT suggests that long-term bottlenecks in robot responsiveness could be alleviated through the use of dedicated hardware accelerators. The research team also suggests it’s possible to develop a general methodology for programming robot responsiveness to create specific templates, which would …
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Boston Dynamics’ wheeled Handle robot received much fanfare earlier this month when DFJ partner Steve Jurvetson slipped us an early video from a company Keynote. Today we have more details on Handle in the form of a shiny HD video. We already knew Handle could manage some pretty sick hurdles …
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LAS VEGAS — Can R2-D2 do this? (Would R2-D2 want to do this?) CES 2017 brings us a robot that automatically folds your laundry. It’s Foldimate, the brainchild of a US-Israeli company of the same name. A typical laundry hamper of clothes can be folded in about three minutes. A …
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This past week saw an intriguing confluence of multiple disciplines, in the form a new artificial stingray model its creators call a “living robot,” and an unconventional means of studying the human heart. Driven by rat cells and modeled after a fish, it might seem like (and be) an odd …
Read More »BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the best of the week’s technology news, including a smart wristband to help people with Parkinson’s disease draw in a straight line by reducing tremors and a hopping mad bot developed at UC Berkeley that can jump a metre off the ground. …
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With next years CES 2017 technology show edging ever closer one company has already won a 2017 CES Innovation Award, and takes the form of the world’s smallest portable camera robot which has been created by Amaryllo. The pocket-sized camera is equipped with multicore processors and is equipped with …
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A new modular robot has been submitted for the 2016 Hackaday Prize which takes the form of DTTO a modular robot that is self-reconfigurable and is focused on all-terrain search and rescue operations using bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms, says its creator. Watch the video below to learn more about the Arduino …
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Minifab 3D based in Mexico has taken to Kickstarter this week to raise the funds they need to take their new robotic bartender into production, which is capable of mixing cocktails autonomously and can be controlled by the companion application on your smartphone. Learn more about the Barbot Bar Robotico …
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