Robot Investments Weekly: Gripper Firms Grab Funding, Make Deals | Robotics
The final week of August saw a flurry of funding announcements across the robotics and artificial intelligence landscape, led by gripper firms offering…
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Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones | Robotics
Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with…
Students demonstrate “calculated imagination” in robot…
On Thursday evening, the Johnson Ice Rink was transformed into a world of pure imagination. Students taking 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) showcased their…
Robotel: Japan hotel staffed by robot dinosaurs | Robotics
Dinosaur robots wait to check in customers at the Henn na hotel
The reception at the Henn na Hotel east of Tokyo is eerily quiet until customers approach…
Kollmorgen to Present Next-Generation Motion Solutions for Robotic…
RADFORD, Va. — Attendees of the 2018 RoboBusiness expo are invited to visit Booth 505, where Kollmorgen will feature its newest motion solutions for…
Model can more naturally detect depression in conversations | Robotics
To diagnose depression, clinicians interview patients, asking specific questions — about, say, past mental illnesses, lifestyle, and mood — and identify the…
Chinese Automation Prospects: Tempering Western Expectations | Robotics
Source: iStock Editor’s Note: As with Japan in the 1970s and ’80s, many industry observers depict Chinese automation as an unstoppable rival to Western…
AI can deliver specialty-level diagnosis in primary care setting
A system designed by a University of Iowa ophthalmologist that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect diabetic retinopathy without a person interpreting…
Smallest medical robot for the Guinness World Records | Robotics
It can’t be seen with a human eye. It doesn’t look anything like C-3PO or R2-D2, or even BB-8. But, nevertheless, it is a robot (all 120nm of it) and its…
Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens | Robotics
Children watch a Keeko robot at the Yiswind Institute of Multicultural Education in Beijing, where the intelligent machines are telling stories and…