The robots in the DARPA Robotics Challenge can open doors and drive cars. But developing machines that can think for themselves is more tricky.
- Reader in Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, University of Birmingham
Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications giant, is selling what it is calling “the world’s first personal robot that reads emotions”. Pepper is designed to be a highly interactive household companion and…
James Dyson’s decision to fund a robotics laboratory at Imperial College London may not lead to the super advanced robot friends of our dreams, but what he has planned could make robotic domestic appliances…
January is a time when many of us seek to better ourselves. We want to learn a new skill or improve an existing one. A network designed especially for robots, RoboEarth, is being tested in the Netherlands…
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