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Must-Have Golf Gear Of 2025: A Motorized Cart Or Robot Caddie
Walking the golf course is undoubtedly better for your health than riding in a cart. But it is probably better for your golf game too. That's why the must-have golf gear of 2025 is a motorized cart. There's a reason why the best players in the…
The Wild Robot' and 'Flow' are quietly revolutionary climate change movies
It's easy to read Chris Sanders' The Wild Robot and Gints Zilbalodis' Flow — two of the best films of 2024 — as companion pieces. Both are animated, both feature little to no human involvement, and both center on unlikely animal…
AI breakthroughs are speeding up the development of humanoid robots, but investors are still skeptical
Investors on the hunt for real-world applications of artificial intelligence may want to consider humanoid robots, which some analysts predict could begin replacing human workers at scale by the end of the decade. 'Breakthroughs in generative AI…
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first
Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 robots, aimed at providing emotional support for kids ages 5 to 10, would soon be bricked, the company said, because they…
Future robots could one day tell how you're feeling by measuring your sweat, scientists say
Future robots might be able to detect how you're feeling just by touching your skin. In a new study, scientists used skin conductance — a measure of how well skin conducts electricity — to assess the emotions of 33 participants who…
Modeling of Chatter Stability for the Robot Milling of Natural Marble
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Machines 2024, 12…
Falling Drones, Swarming Drones And Rolling Nightmare Robots In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup
Drone shows are meant to be the future of celebration as they're a cleaner alternative to fireworks that don't terrorize every animal within a five-mile radius. That's not quite true when these shows go wrong and thousands of drones start falling…
'The Wild Robot' Leads Annie Awards Nominations With 10 Nods
DreamWorks Animation leads the 2025 Annie Awards feature competition with 10 nominations, including for best feature, best FX and best character animation, it was announced on Friday. The top feature category saw nominations also handed out by the…
Moxie robot may be saved by a last-minute open-sourcing effort
Owners of Embodied's doomed Moxie robot may get a reprieve from the shutdown, thanks to an eleventh-hour open-source attempt to keep the robot running. Early in December, it was reported that Embodied, the company behind the child-centric Moxie…
Trajectory Tracking Control for Robotic Manipulator Based on Soft Actor-Critic and Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. School of Computer Science and Technology, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China Author to whom correspondence should be…
Genesis Project AI Makes It Possible to Train Robots 430,000x Faster
Have you ever wondered what it would take to train a robot to walk, grasp objects, or navigate a cluttered room with the same ease as a human? For many, the idea of teaching robots these complex tasks might conjure images of expensive labs, endless…
Top 7 must-read robotics stories of 2024
2024 witnessed tremendous innovations in robotics, from humanoids achieving human-like dexterity to giant robots working on train lines. Developers focused on problem-solving approaches to make these innovations. Tesla Optimus robot, Figure 02…
Researchers open-source Genesis simulation platform for training robots
A research group on Thursday released Genesis, an artificial intelligence simulation engine designed to ease robot development. The group included more than 50 researchers from about a dozen universities. Nvidia Corp. contributed as well along with…
The First Report on Liver Resection Using the Novel Japanese hinotori™ Surgical Robot System: First Case Series Report of 10 Cases
Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center, 1 Gotanda, Harisaki-cho, Okazaki 444-0827, Aichi, Japan Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake, Toyoake 470-1192, Aichi, Japan…
This Week in AI: Security Flaw Exposes AI Giants While Robot Workers Get Upgrade
This week in AI, security researchers stole artificial intelligence models with near-perfect accuracy by capturing electromagnetic signals, as MIT unveiled a robot system that can handle odd-shaped warehouse packages with 80% success. Meanwhile…
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