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Study Compares Simulation and Reality to Learn Robot Swarm Behavior

Neuro-evolutionary robotics is considered to be an impressive method to achieve the collective behaviors of swarms of robots. Several studies have investigated this area and various methods and concepts have been suggested but there have been very few empirical evaluations and comparative analyses.

19 Jul 2021

Pepper the Robot Joins School to Support Autistic Young People

A socially intelligent robot is lending a helping hand to pupils at a special needs school in Somerset, England, as part of a project led by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) researchers.

25 Jun 2021

People Patted by Robot While Conversing Report Better Emotional State

A small study has discovered that people who were touched by a humanoid robot while talking with it later reported an improved emotional state and more probably comply with a request from the robot.

6 May 2021

KIT's Real-World Lab "Robotic Artificial Intelligence" Aims to Make AI Tangible Through Experiments

Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is subject of imagination, films, and stories, but it also is reality. Superhuman capacity of AI is obvious in games as well as in image and language processing, in autonomous driving, in digital language assistants, and chatbots.

27 Jan 2021

Why Soft Skills Could Power the Rise of Robot Leaders

What would the world look like if socially-skilled robots stepped into the roles normally reserved for humans?

2 Dec 2020

Research Reveals Why Robots with Humanlike Features Elicit Uncanny Feelings

Androids, or robots with humanlike features, are often more appealing to people than those that resemble machines -- but only up to a certain point.

11 Sep 2020

New Patent Granted to Innovative Robotic Joint

An innovative robotic joint was granted a new patent by the German Patent Office on July 23rd, 2020.

31 Aug 2020

Study Shows Children are Skeptical Toward Humanoid Robots

A new study focused on the interactions between children and robots was performed at the Norwegian research fair held in all major cities.

13 Aug 2020

ERC Proof of Concept Project Focuses on Empowering Robots with Artificial Intelligence Methods

Present-day robots are made for the purpose of repeating several tasks thousands of times. To make robots more widely applicable, future robots need to be able to do thousands of tasks just a few times.

29 Jul 2020

Robot with Built-in Humanoid Jaws Could Help Develop Medicated Chewing Gum

Researchers have recognized that medicated chewing gum is a novel, sophisticated drug delivery approach. However, at present, there is no gold standard for in vitro testing of drug release from chewing gum.

15 Jul 2020

Humanoids News

Study Compares Simulation and Reality to Learn Robot Swarm Behavior

Pepper the Robot Joins School to Support Autistic Young People

People Patted by Robot While Conversing Report Better Emotional State

KIT's Real-World Lab "Robotic Artificial Intelligence" Aims to Make AI Tangible Through Experiments

Why Soft Skills Could Power the Rise of Robot Leaders

Research Reveals Why Robots with Humanlike Features Elicit Uncanny Feelings

New Patent Granted to Innovative Robotic Joint

Study Shows Children are Skeptical Toward Humanoid Robots

ERC Proof of Concept Project Focuses on Empowering Robots with Artificial Intelligence Methods

Robot with Built-in Humanoid Jaws Could Help Develop Medicated Chewing Gum

The Robotic System Combating the Soft Plastic Recycling Crisis

The Development of an Algorithm that Helps Soft Robots Understand Their Surroundings

How a Team from MIT is Using an AI Tool to Detect Melanoma

Capitan Series Servo Drives

Single- and Multi-Pixel Capability in One Sensor - TeraRanger Evo Mini

High-Speed Automated Photonics Alignment System F-712 FMPA by PI

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The Robotic System Combating the Soft Plastic Recycling Crisis

The Development of an Algorithm that Helps Soft Robots Understand Their Surroundings

How a Team from MIT is Using an AI Tool to Detect Melanoma

Humanoids News

1 AI Uses Human-Like Capabilities to Imagine the Unseen

2 New Artificial Swimmers Developed Using Oil and Water

3 Novel Algorithm to Fly Autonomous Drones Faster than Human Pilots

4 Study Compares Simulation and Reality to Learn Robot Swarm Behavior

5 AI Helps Model Performance of Metal Additive Manufacturing

6 New Way to Customize the Mechanical Properties of Soft Robots

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