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Boston Dynamics will start selling arms for its robodog Spot next year
Boston Dynamics has reportedly already sold more than 250 of its $75,000 Spot robots since starting commercial sales back in June. “The next thing on the future Spot is that we’re going to make it available with a robot arm in a few months,” Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert told the virtual crowd at the Collision from Home conference in June.
The LAFD just hired America's first firefighting robot
The RS3 is America's first firefighting robot. It was action earlier this week when it put out a fire in downtown LA.
Alphabet's Mineral moonshot wants to help farmers with robotic plant buggies
In 2018, Alphabet's X lab said it was in the process of exploring how it could use artificial intelligence to improve farming. The Mineral team has spent the last several years "developing and testing a range of software and hardware prototypes based on breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, simulation, sensors, robotics and more." Powered by solar panels, the machine makes its way across a farmer's field, examining every plant it passes along the way with an array of cameras and sensors.
Yale's smart robotic fabric is as flexible as you need it to be
Now a research team out of Yale University has taken the technology one step further with the invention of smart, robotic fabric that can change its shape and stiffness on the fly. The team, led by Dr. Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, spun epoxy into fibers that can vary their stiffness thanks to the particles of Field’s metal embedded within them. Field’s metal is novel in that it liquefies at very low temperatures.
NASA delays its Titan drone mission by another year
NASA is delaying the launch of its Dragonfly drone mission to Titan to 2027 due to the pandemic and other external setbacks.
'Disintegration' multiplayer shuts down after just six months
The developer behind Disintegration, the tactical shooter with transhuman characters, is ending the multiplayer mode that it launched early this year.
Electronic skin reacts to pain like a human
Scientists have developed electronic skin that reacts to pain like humans, potentially leading to smarter prosthetics and robots.
Cornell University's laser-activated robot is smaller than a paramecium
Researchers from Cornell University unveiled an entire robot that is teensy enough to fit most anywhere in the human body — yes, even in there — and inexpensive enough to produce on a mass scale. The walking robots are the creation of Cornell physics professor Itai Cohen, professor of physical science Paul McEuen, and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Marc Miskin.
Harvard and Sony built a tiny surgery robot inspired by origami
The mini-RCM is about the size of a tennis ball and weighs the same as a penny.
iRobot's Roomba gets a huge intelligence boost
iRobot is unveiling a new software platform that lets its Roombas and Braava mop work with other smart devices, and learn from your behavior.
This super strength body battery is made with discarded Kevlar
Today’s robot-mounted batteries provide electrical power but at the expense of added mass that in turn requires added power to move and use. Lithium-Ion batteries can go for around 500 cycles without noticeably degrading, however zinc batteries begin to decline after just 100.
AI helps drone swarms navigate through crowded, unfamiliar spaces
Researchers have developed AI that lets drone swarms navigate cluttered, unmapped spaces without collisions.
Your next White Castle slider could be cooked by a robot
The two companies have been collaborating for about a year to integrate Flippy’s ROAR (Robot on a Rail) system into White Castle’s existing kitchen layouts and workflows.
MIT researchers create robotic gripper that can untangle thin cables
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a robotic gripper with the dexterity to handle thin objects like ropes and cables, the university announced.
A life-size Gundam statue will be completed outside of Japan in 2021
A 59-foot-tall Gundam statue will be built outside of Japan in 2021 -- but you'll have to visit Shanghai to see it.
Spot and Pepper robots will perform at spectatorless baseball games in Japan
SoftBank, however, is taking things a step further in an effort to make its Japanese baseball team’s games a lot livelier.
AI robot 'Erica' will star in $70 million sci-fi movie 'b'
Erica will be Hollywood's first AI actor.
Sony's Aibo robot will now greet you at the front door
Sony’s robotic Aibo pup continues to learn new tricks. Thanks to a new software update, the android companion will now predict when you come home and sit patiently at the front door. Or that’s the idea, anyway.
A robot sloth will (very slowly) survey endangered species
A robot sloth will keep watch on animals and plants to protect them -- and its slowness is an advantage.
Researchers taught a robot to suture by showing it surgery videos
The UC Berkeley team, led by Dr. Ajay Tanwani, has developed a semi-supervised AI deep-learning system, dubbed Motion2Vec.