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New Technology Uses UAVs and Insect Biobots to Map Disaster Areas

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University have created a combination of hardware and software that will enable them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots to map large, unfamiliar areas e.g., collapsed buildings following a disaster.

18 Nov 2016

Engineering Students Develop LARA Concierge Robot for UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center

Internationally renowned UCLA professor of engineering Dennis Hong gets excited about robots — downright giddy at times.

18 Nov 2016

Innovative Machine Learning Training Method Opens New Possibilities for Artificial Intelligence

As a result of a new machine learning algorithm formulated by engineering researchers Parham Aarabi (ECE) and Wenzhi Guo (ECE MASc 1T5) at University of Toronto, smartphones may soon be able to provide users with honest answers.

17 Nov 2016

Artificial Intelligence to Become Next Big Breakthrough in Highly Automated Driving

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is staged to become the next big breakthrough in automotive, particularly in the context of Highly Automated Driving (HAD), according to Vision Systems Intelligence (VSI).

16 Nov 2016

New AI-Based Computational Method Could Automatically Associate Images with Sounds

The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer vision system that can train itself isn't as simple.

16 Nov 2016

CTA to Testify Before House E&C Subcommittee on Future of Self-Driving Vehicles

Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, will testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on the future of self-driving vehicles.

15 Nov 2016

Banning ‘Killer Robots’ May be a Temporary Solution, Say Researchers

A UB research team has published a paper that implies that the rush to ban and demonize autonomous weapons, or “killer robots,” may be a temporary solution, but the actual problem is that society is entering into a situation where systems like these will and have become possible.

14 Nov 2016

Researchers Develop Persistent Interactive Personality that Can Translate Variables into Simple Narratives

People can find a hundred ways to say the same thing, which poses a challenge to robots that are expected to keep up their end of conversations.

14 Nov 2016

New Project Aims to Make Robots Persistently Autonomous

“I’m sorry, Dave. You told me to take out the trash, but there’s a big box blocking the door to the trash chute.” If the speaker were a human child, you might just say, “So go back and move the box.”

11 Nov 2016

Echodyne Successfully Tests Airbrone Detect and Avoid Radar on Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Echodyne Corp today announced the first ever successful test of an airborne Detect and Avoid (DAA) radar on a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (sUAV).

9 Nov 2016

Scooters Join the List of Autonomous Vehicles of Cars and Golf Carts

Over 100 visitors who attended MIT’s 2016 Open House rode on an autonomous mobility scooter.

8 Nov 2016

Researchers Use Robots to Measure Environmental Variables of Greenhouses

Researchers from UPM use a multi-robot team to measure environmental variables of greenhouses and to ease the continuous monitoring of crop conditions.

8 Nov 2016

Disney Research’s 360-Degree VR Application Helps Users Customize Haptic Effects

Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application that enables users to enhance their experience by adding customized haptic effects that can be triggered by user movements, biofeedback or timelines.

7 Nov 2016

Drones May Help Create Accurate 3D Model of Urban Environments and Design Wireless Networks

New technique provides an accurate 3D model, which improves the prediction of the propagation of radio waves at millimetre-wave frequencies.

7 Nov 2016

ASU Assistant Professor Creates Algorithms that Reduce Robots' Learning Time to a Matter of Hours

Engineering professor Heni Ben Amor creates algorithms that allow the device to program itself far faster than a human could

4 Nov 2016

Robotics News

New Technology Uses UAVs and Insect Biobots to Map Disaster Areas

Engineering Students Develop LARA Concierge Robot for UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center

Innovative Machine Learning Training Method Opens New Possibilities for Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence to Become Next Big Breakthrough in Highly Automated Driving

New AI-Based Computational Method Could Automatically Associate Images with Sounds

CTA to Testify Before House E&C Subcommittee on Future of Self-Driving Vehicles

Banning ‘Killer Robots’ May be a Temporary Solution, Say Researchers

Researchers Develop Persistent Interactive Personality that Can Translate Variables into Simple Narratives

New Project Aims to Make Robots Persistently Autonomous

Echodyne Successfully Tests Airbrone Detect and Avoid Radar on Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Scooters Join the List of Autonomous Vehicles of Cars and Golf Carts

Researchers Use Robots to Measure Environmental Variables of Greenhouses

Disney Research’s 360-Degree VR Application Helps Users Customize Haptic Effects

Drones May Help Create Accurate 3D Model of Urban Environments and Design Wireless Networks

ASU Assistant Professor Creates Algorithms that Reduce Robots' Learning Time to a Matter of Hours

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