Age of Robots

Why Soft Robots?

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 22, 2020 | Hardware |

Traditional Robots Versus Soft Robots When we think about robots, we usually imagine smart and...

How Secure is Your Password Today?

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 19, 2020 | Society |

A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?...

Can robots write?

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 19, 2020 | AI and Society |

Can robots write? Machine learning produces dazzling results, but some assembly is still required...

Interview with Valiant Space founders

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 16, 2020 | Space |

We sat down with Bryan Greenham and Andrew Uscinski to find out a bit about the space start up...

Dr Rafael Felix Alves on Generalised Zero-Shot Learning

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 12, 2020 | Machine Learning |

Today I talk to Rafa Felix about his work at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning on...

Gilmour Space to launch Space Machines Company on first Eris rocket

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 9, 2020 | Space |

“This could well be the first Australian payload to be launched to orbit on an Australian rocket,...

No signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 8, 2020 | Space |

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at...

Colourising 3D maps of the world based on lidar data

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 7, 2020 | Computing |

PaintCloud is a solution that enables the colourisation of otherwise colourless 3D representations...

Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 28, 2020 | Space |

In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team...

New $115 Million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies for Discovery Science

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 27, 2020 | Quantum |

Berkeley Lab-led center to catalyze U.S. leadership in quantum information science, and strengthen...

Army robo-teammate can detect & share 3-D changes in real-time

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 26, 2020 | Military |

Something is different, and you can’t quite put your finger on it. But your robot can. Even small...

Researchers create a contagion model to predict flooding in urban areas

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 26, 2020 | Environment |

Inspired by the same modeling and mathematical laws used to predict the spread of pandemics,...

Robotics Roadmap of Australia Workshops 2020

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 24, 2020 | Robotics |

The following are the twelve 2020 workshops led by Sue Keay for the development of the Australian...

Tracing Pilots’ Situation Assessment by Neuroadaptive Cognitive Modeling

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 21, 2020 | Human-Machine |

A new study in Frontiers in Neuroscience presents an integration of a passive brain-computer...

A Conversation With the Brain: Can We Speak Its Language?

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 21, 2020 | Neuroscience |

For a number of centuries, scientists, engineers, psychologists or philosophers have tried to...

Novel method of heat conduction could be a game changer for server farms and aircraft

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 19, 2020 | Computing |

(Top Image: Lab member Mojtaba Edalatpour shows the thermal diode developed by Boreyko’s...

Closest Asteroid Flyby on Record

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 19, 2020 | Space |

An SUV-size space rock flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded...

ARES Security Partners with Ghost Robotics for large US contract.

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 18, 2020 | Military |

ARES Security has been awarded a contract ($950M ceiling) for the maturation, demonstration, and...

Soldiers could teach future robots how to outperform humans

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 13, 2020 | Military |

In the future, a Soldier and a game controller may be all that’s needed to teach robots how to...

Long-range coherent LiDAR is sped up

Posted by Age of Robots | May 28, 2020 | Transport |

LiDAR is a technique used for measuring distances with laser light. In a study published in Nature, researchers at EPFL show a new way to speed up a type of LiDAR engine by using photonic circuits.

Is addiction to video games real?

Posted by Age of Robots | May 26, 2020 | Gaming |

A recent six-year study, the longest study ever done on video game addiction, found that about 90% of gamers do not play in a way that is harmful or causes negative long-term consequences. A significant minority, though, can become truly addicted to video games and as a result can suffer mentally, socially and behaviorally.