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Soft Robot Skin Uses Air-Filled Cavities to Cushion Collisions

Much like Baymax, the robot star of the animated feature "Big Hero 6," a soft robot skin developed by Disney Research uses air-filled cavities to cushion collisions and to provide the pressure feedback necessary for grasping delicate objects.

29 Sep 2015

Researchers Develop Three-Fingered Soft Robotic Hand with Embedded Fiber Optic Sensors

Optical sensors may be uniquely suited for use in robotic hands, according to Carnegie Mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors. They also have created a new type of stretchable optical sensor.

29 Sep 2015

Researchers Use Robots to Better Understand Concept Behind Babies’ Smile

Why do babies smile when they interact with their parents? Could their smiles have a purpose? In the Sept. 23 issue of PLOS ONE, a team of computer scientists, roboticists and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: when babies smile, they do so with a purpose—to make the person they interact with smile in return.

25 Sep 2015

New Research Explores How Social Cues Affect Human-Robot Interaction

Robots are increasingly being considered for use in highly tense civilian encounters to minimize person-to-person contact and danger to peacekeeping personnel. Trust, along with physical qualities and cultural considerations, is an essential factor in the effectiveness of these robotic peacekeepers.

23 Sep 2015

New Research on Household Robots Could Lay Groundwork for Assistive Technologies

The use of household robots for healthcare or service needs could help thousands of people, but most of those people do not have the skills to program those robots.

23 Sep 2015

Call for Ban on Robots that could be used for Sex

A campaign has been launched by a De Montfort University researcher calling for a ban on the development of robots that can be used for sex, calling the trend “very disturbing indeed”.

16 Sep 2015

UW Professor Wins NSF CAREER Award to Develop Artificially Intelligent Robots

Jeff Clune studies how to harness the power of evolution to make artificially intelligent robots.

9 Sep 2015

Researchers Develop Autobiographical Memory for Humanoid Robot

A team of French researchers from the Institut cellule souche et cerveau (Inserm/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), led by CNRS senior researcher Peter Ford Dominey, has developed "an autobiographical memory"[1] for the robot Nao, which enables it to pass on knowledge learnt from humans to other, less knowledgable humans.

8 Sep 2015

First-Ever Robotic Butler Officially Reports for Duty at Aloft Silicon Valley

Aloft Hotels, the innovative hotel brand for today’s hyper-connected global traveler, today announced that its second robotic butler, or Botlr, is officially reporting for full-time duty at Aloft Silicon Valley, effective immediately.

19 Aug 2015

Scientists Develop Brain-Computer Control Interface for Lower Limb Exoskeleton

Scientists working at Korea University, Korea, and TU Berlin, Germany have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding specific signals from within the user's brain.

19 Aug 2015