Robots to the rescue
Robots were big and clunky. Humans were kept away from them. Today, that's rapidly changing. New robot systems are soft and safe to be around, and even can be wearable. Robotics has never looked so people-friendly. In keeping with the changing times …
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Swimming robot hunts overpopulated jellyfish and shreds them
As jellyfish populations explode due to warming waters and overfishing, researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have worked to combat them by developing an unmanned robot that can patrol the seas and destroy …
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Your Child Already Knows How To Program This Robot
It's a pretty insane claim, given that professional engineers spend weeks programming sophisticated robots to pick up and carry a cup on its own. But then again, Bo and Yana aren't your average bots. Play-i's first two offerings are robots that …
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War of robots: Student teams vie for Colorado supremacy
Collaborating with classmates to construct a robot is Licia Lamb's bailiwick. "I get to work on robots — not many kids get to do that — and I get to just do what I do best and rock it," said the freshman from STEM High and Academy in Highlands Ranch.
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Beyond Terminator: Robots Deserve Ethical Treatment Too (Op-Ed)
So what is our relationship to robots and how do our attitudes toward them – whether that's a pervading fear of the singularity or a fond affection – affect the sort of robots we create? A dancing robot poses shyly for the camera during Robotronica …
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Mishaps and deaths caused by surgical robots going underreported to FDA
Photo by Getty Images. The use of robotic surgical systems is expanding rapidly, but hospitals, patients and regulators may not be getting enough information to determine whether the high tech approach is worth its cost. Problems resulting from surgery …
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