ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Robotics in the Second Machine Age
We are entering an age of robots that are infiltrating many areas of work and life in general – robots are everywhere. This department is following the development of robotics, from the nanorobotics being developed in the health sector to humanoid robots that some hope will evolve to be a new sub-servient species for our comfort, safety and prosperity. There are both huge technical challenges, social and ethical concerns, and even the fear that we may be creating something that will one day supersede us.
Latest robotics technology news
How robots learn to hike
ETH Zurich researchers led by Marco Hutter have developed a new control approach that enables a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain. Thanks to machine learning, the robot can combine its visual perception of the environment...
Lyro Robotics Gets Packing!
We (the Perfekt Studios arm of our company) recently did a video shoot for Brisbane local robotics company Lyro Robotics and their picking and packing robotic system. Using and advanced vision system developed by the group, Lyro Robotics are aiming at industry where...
Helpful, engineered ‘living’ machines in the future?
Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villain like the Cylons in the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot, creatures composed of biological and engineered materials. But what...
How Tiny Machines Become Capable of Learning
Living organisms, from bacteria to animals and humans, can perceive their environment and process, store and retrieve this information. They learn how to react to later situations using appropriate actions. A team of physicists at Leipzig University led by Professor...
Soft Robotic Dragonfly Signals Environmental Disruptions
Electronics-free DraBot uses air pressure, microarchitectures and self-healing hydrogels to watch for changes in pH, temperature and oil Engineers at Duke University have developed an electronics-free, entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly that can skim across...
AI algorithm designs soft robot
Using a specifically designed deep learning neural network, researchers were able to develop a new type of soft robot - one with optimised sensor placement resulting in superior efficiency. The majority of work we see handed off to robots are technically complex or...
Reading Minds with Ultrasound: A Less-Invasive Technique to Decode the Brain’s Intentions
What is happening in your brain as you are scrolling through this page? In other words, which areas of your brain are active, which neurons are talking to which others, and what signals are they sending to your muscles? Mapping neural activity to corresponding...
More transparency and understanding into machine behaviors
A new tool helps humans better understand and develop artificial intelligence models by searching and highlighting representative scenarios. Explaining, interpreting, and understanding the human mind presents a unique set of challenges. Doing the same for the...
Artificial Neuron Device Could Shrink Energy Use and Size of Neural Network Hardware
Training neural networks to perform tasks, such as recognizing images or navigating self-driving cars, could one day require less computing power and hardware thanks to a new artificial neuron device developed by researchers at the University of California San Diego....
