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Robot Displays a Glimmer of Empathy to a Partner Robot

January 8, 2021 sarah Jonas Artificial Intelligence, Empathy, Robots, Theory of Mind

Like a longtime couple who can predict each other’s every move, a Columbia Engineering robot has learned to predict its partner robot’s future actions and goals based on just a few initial video frames. The study, conducted at Columbia Engineering’s Creative Machines Lab led by Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod Lipson, is part of a broader effort to endow robots with the ability to understand and anticipate the goals of other robots, purely from visual observations.

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Worm-like, soil-swimming robots to explore crop underworld

November 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Cops, Digital Agriculture, Horticulture, Plant Biology, Robotics, Robots, soil

A Cornell University project will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow.

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On the way to lifelike robots

November 11, 2020 sarah Jonas Artificial Intelligence, perception and cognition, Robots, Sensors

In order for robots to be able to achieve more than simple automated machines in the future, they must not only have their own “brain”. Empa researchers postulate that artificial intelligence must be expanded to include the capabilities of a Physical Artificial Intelligence, PAI. This will redefine the field of robotics and the relationship between man and machine.

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Future of digital ag could use robots to optimize apple yields, boost profits

November 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Apples, Digital Agriculture, Fruit, Horticulture, Robots, Technology

A Cornell University-led, multi-institution, interdisciplinary team seeks to use computer vision, automation and robotics to optimize per-tree apple production, which is currently a highly manual and imprecise process.

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Quantum Materials Quest Could Benefit From Graphene That Buckles

August 12, 2020 sarah Jonas 2D materials, Building Blocks, Crystals, Devices, Electricity, Electronic Devices, Electronics, Electrons, Energy, Graphene, Graphite, Health, health monitoring devices, Magnetic Fields, Magnetism, Materials, Materials Science, New Jersey, NJ, Physics, Power, Quantum Computers, quantum materials, Research, Robots, Rutgers, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Science, Sensors, Superconductivity, Superconductors, Tech, Technology

Graphene, an extremely thin two-dimensional layer of the graphite used in pencils, buckles when cooled while attached to a flat surface, resulting in beautiful pucker patterns that could benefit the search for novel quantum materials and superconductors, according to Rutgers-led research in the journal Nature. Quantum materials host strongly interacting electrons with special properties, such as entangled trajectories, that could provide building blocks for super-fast quantum computers. They also can become superconductors that could slash energy consumption by making power transmission and electronic devices more efficient.

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Welcome, Robin the AI robot

July 7, 2020 sarah Jonas AI, Pediatrics, Robots

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital launched an innovative project to support the emotional needs of children through a new AI powered robot. Robin’s technology enables the robot to build what is called associative memory — it recognizes a child’s emotions by interpreting his or her facial expressions and builds responsive dialogue by replicating patterns formed from previous experiences.

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Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robots Can Outswim Their Natural Counterparts

July 1, 2020 sarah Jonas Research, Robot, Robotics, Robots, soft robotics, soft robots, Technology

Engineering researchers have developed soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-life counterparts. More practically, the new jellyfish-bots highlight a technique that uses pre-stressed polymers to make soft robots more powerful.

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Robots armed with UV light fight grape mildew

June 3, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Digital Agriculture, Grapes, Plant Pathology, Robotics, Robots, ultraviolet light, Uv Light

Robots fitted with ultraviolet light lamps that roam vineyards at night are proving effective at killing powdery mildew, a devastating pathogen for many crops, including grapes.

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These flexible feet help robots walk faster

June 1, 2020 sarah Jonas Biomimicry, Jacobs School Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Robots, soft robotics, Uc San Diego, UCSD, University Of California San Diego

Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed flexible feet that can help robots walk up to 40 percent faster on uneven terrain such as pebbles and wood chips. The work has applications for search-and-rescue missions as well as space exploration.

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NUS researchers develop stretchable, self-healing and illuminating material for ‘invincible’ light-emitting devices

May 31, 2020 sarah Jonas Electronics, Robots, Self-Healing

Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new stretchable material that can self-heal and light up. The novel material has promising applications that include damage-proof flexible display screens and illuminating electronic skin for autonomous soft robots.

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Ocean explorer and filmmaker James Cameron to host virtual event on Extreme Ocean Machines

May 15, 2020 sarah Jonas Exploration, Ocean, Robots, Technology

On May 20, ocean explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron will host a special edition of Ocean Encounters, a popular virtual event series from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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People Think Robots Are Pretty Incompetent and Not Funny, New Study Says

May 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Gender, gender bias, Gender Equality, humanoid robot, Robot, Robots, Surveillance

Detecting gender bias against robots was the original intent of a study that revealed two surprises: The gender bias didn’t appear. In its place, people were predisposed to find robots mostly incompetent, regardless of gender.

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