Category Robotics

[ad_1] I loved the Thundercats cartoon as a child, watching cat-like humanoids fighting the forces of evil. Whenever their leader was in trouble, he’d unleash the Sword of Omens to gain “sight beyond sight,” the ability to see events happening…

[ad_1] One major — and somewhat unexpected — theme at Microsoft’s Build developer conference this week is autonomous robots. After acquiring AI startup Bonsai, which specialized in reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, the company today announced the limited preview of…

[ad_1] Amazon has unveiled a new autonomous drone which it says will be delivering parcels to customers within months, as it doubles down on efforts to roll out the technology commercially.  At Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, the company…

[ad_1] Five years ago, MIT debuted a piece of furniture straight out of The Jetsons. It was a glowing robotic box that could transform a 200-square-foot apartment into a 600-square-foot apartment, expanding or contracting at the push of a button…

[ad_1] Brad Porter, vice president of robotics at Amazon, introduces new breeds of robots at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) LAS VEGAS — Amazon says there are now 200,000 robots working alongside 300,000 people…

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[ad_1] Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today open-sourced a new robotics framework called PyRobot. Developed alongside researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, PyRobot is meant to help AI researchers and students integrate deep learning models created using the PyTorch framework with…

[ad_1] To make a robot, be it a wheeled rover, flying drone, factory robot, or autonomous spacecraft, you will need common classes of components. We’ll discover what they are for, focusing on those needed for a wheeled robot. We’ll look…

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[ad_1] A customer uses an automatic teller machine (ATM) inside a Wells Fargo & Co. bank branch in New … [+] York, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Photographer: Daniel Tepper/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP According to a Wells…