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Flashy humanoid robots that have awed attendees at Web Summit in Lisbon this week are still far from revolutionizing physical labor in factories and warehouses, Amazon's chief roboticist told AFP.
XPeng is one of a growing number of companies keen to develop and deploy humanoid robots in the workplace and even in the home. Though the technology isn’t quite there, recent advancements in AI technologies have given the sector a boost as engineers work to perfect their designs.
AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.
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How can people hand over packages comfortably to delivery robots?
A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, investigated human behavior and comfort when handing over a package to an autonomous mobile delivery robot while walking—an interaction envisioned for logistics in future smart cities.
Doctors from Scotland and the US have completed what is thought to be a world-first stroke procedure using a robot. Prof Iris Grunwald, of the University of Dundee, performed the remote thrombectomy - the removal of blood clots after a stroke - on a human cadaver that had been donated to medical science.
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a research team led by Dr. Sona Kwak and Dr. Yoonseop Lim at the Center for Intelligence and Interaction Research Center won the Grand Prize in the Demonstration category for its outdoor-friendly modular robotic furniture system,
Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These machines, known as robots, are deployed across a broad ...
According to the company, the robot has 82 degrees of freedom, which enable smooth, flexible movements, and is powered by three custom AI chips that offer up to 3000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of computing power, making it one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots.