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This article is brought to you by VicOne. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears…
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Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding. There are some good reasons for this: A humanoid robot needs to be…
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Why is a humanoid robot learning kung fu if its real job is supposed to be in hotels, factories, and warehouses? AGIBOT’s A3 can dodge strikes, perform high-speed spins, and interact with a human martial artist in real time. But behind the spectacular demo is something much more…
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 Sept…
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Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting to change as academic labs and startups…
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Humanoid robots are getting faster, smarter, and cheaper — but are they actually ready for the real world? At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, robots broke records, cleared obstacle courses… and sometimes crashed spectacularly seconds later. That contrast perfectly cap…
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If you think that cockroaches are creepy and useless, we can prove you wrong. Well, at least the “useless” part. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Engineering Tags: University of Queensland, Cyborg, Insect, Rescue, Disasters
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Few things make the career jump from regional cuisine delicacy to robotics actuator. Yet, in research vaguely reminiscent of RoboCop, scientists have used skeletal muscle from a literal frog leg as an actuator to control a tiny robotic manta ray. Continue Reading Category: Robot…
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Nature is undoubtedly the smartest engineer. Scientists have borrowed ideas from armadillos, elephants and birds to build robots capable of doing things that conventional man-made machines struggle with. Now, researchers at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have…
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You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and…
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