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EPFL Students Design Faster, More Powerful Table Football Playing Robots

EPFL students have developed a robot that is capable of competing against human players with average skills in table football.

12 Aug 2016

Newly Developed Ourobot can Detect, Overcome Obstacles

As part of a research project, students at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences have successfully developed "Ourobot". This research project was administered by a CITEC researcher and a professor at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.

2 Aug 2016

Baidu Selects Inspur Heterogeneous Supercomputing Server for Unmanned Auto Road Condition Model Training

Artificial intelligence has advanced through the years and voice recognition, intelligent hardware, and driverless cars are all technologies that influence our lives.

22 Jul 2016

Igus Receives the Ten Thousandth Readycable Order from Robotics Company

20 Jul 2016

Ford Employees Use Collaborative Robots to Fit Shock Absorbers to Fiesta Cars in Germany

More than 100 years after the first cars rolled off Henry Ford’s pioneering assembly line, Ford Motor Company is breaking new ground in the way workers and robots are collaborating to manufacture vehicles.

15 Jul 2016

Researchers Describe a New Approach to Advance Semi-Autonomous Systems

University of Massachusetts Amherst computer science graduate students Kyle Wray and Luis Pineda, with their professor Shlomo Zilberstein, today described a new approach to managing the challenge of transferring control between a human and an autonomous system, in a paper they presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in New York City.

13 Jul 2016

MIT Study Finds Inconsistent Public Opinion on Driverless Cars

Driverless cars pose a quandary when it comes to safety. These autonomous vehicles are programmed with a set of safety rules, and it is not hard to construct a scenario in which those rules come into conflict with each other.

27 Jun 2016

Maker Faire Bay Area 2016: Makeblock to Debut DIY Robotics for Makers & Stem Learners

Makeblock (Shenzhen Maker Works Technology Co., Ltd), a leading DIY robotics construction platform founded in 2012, was largely recognized as "Lego for adults" after first launched its robot kits on Kickstarter.

18 May 2016

Can Robots Be Trusted to Provide Split Second Response When Safety is at Stake?

Self-driving cars, interactive children’s toys, and automated package delivery systems are entering the market rapidly, increasing the interaction between humans and robots on a greater scale. Movies such as Wall-E, Star Wars, and Ex-Machina reveal the growing fascination for sci-fi and robots.

27 Apr 2016

New Goliath Crane to be Equipped with Konecranes TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring

Konecranes will deliver a new 1,200 ton Goliath gantry crane to Meyer Turku Oy. The design, precision drive components, electrical installation and automation system and structural components will be supplied by Konecranes, while Meyer Turku will manufacture the main girder in its own hull production.

25 Apr 2016