Empowering household robots The implications of MIT’s groundbreaking method extend far beyond laboratory experiments. By ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about business, law, and technology policy. Research shows that people anthropomorphize robots (that is to say they attribute human ...
3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many ...
Hey, what if you could have a factory that makes robots that is run by… robots? This is hardly an original thought, but we are a long way from having an assembly line of C3POs self-replicating.
NOT that we’re looking to alarm you or anything but scientists have discovered that xenobots – synthetic lifeforms – have learned to reproduce. According to New Scientist, “swarms of tiny ...
As technology continues to advance, scientists and engineers are constantly searching for more efficient and effective ways to create new materials and devices. One increasingly popular method is self ...
As director of CSAIL and head of MIT’s Distributed Robotics Lab, Daniela Rus is dreaming up our robot-filled future. MIT computer scientist Daniela Rus is dreaming up our robot-filled future.
Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...
“This is the first meeting of its kind,” said Ulrich Betz, vice president of innovation at Merck Biopharma in Darmstadt, Germany, as he opened Curious2018 in July. The conference is one of a ...
We've all seen household robots in movies and TV shows, performing tasks ranging from simple cleanup to complex problem-solving, often equipped with a kind of "common sense" that makes them seem ...