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Disney Research Makes Robotic Gaze Interaction Eerily Lifelike
A team of researchers is imbuing animatronic robots with lifelike eye gaze.
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Throwable Robot Car Always Lands on Four Wheels
Researchers at the U.S. Military Academy have developed robot that can be thrown or dropped and always lands the right way up.
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Here Comes the Internet of Plastic Things, No Batteries or Electronics Required
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a technique for three-dimensionally printing plastic objects that communicate with Wi-Fi devices without...
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Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron
Analog computing with neuron-like devices could efficiently solve problems traditional computers struggle to solve.
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An Open Source Bionic Leg
University of Michigan researchers have released details online of the design of an open source bionic leg, and the results of its clinical tests.
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Tree-Climbing Robot Can Safely Harvest Coconuts
Researchers at India's Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University have designed a robot to climb trees and safely harvest coconuts.
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Robotic Tank Is Designed to Crawl Through Your Intestine
Researchers at the University of Colorado's Advanced Medical Technologies Lab have created a tank robot that can actively drive through a person's intestines.
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Japanese Town to Test Autonomous Amphibious Bus
The Japanese town of Naganohara will test a consortium's autonomous amphibious bus in a trial beginning in December and running through March 2021.
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AI Seeks ET: Machine Learning Powers Hunt for Life in the Solar System
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is testing a pilot artificial intelligence system for use on a future Mars mission.
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Bio-Ink for 3-D Printing Inside the Body
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a bio-ink that can be three-dimensionally printed at human body temperature, and solidified using visible...
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Preventing AI From Divulging Its Own Secrets
Researchers have demonstrated the first countermeasure for shielding artificial intelligence from differential power analysis attacks.
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Annealing Processor Excels at Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Researchers in Japan have developed a new annealer architecture to handle combinatorial optimization problems.
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Optical Labs Set Terabit Transmission Records
Researchers were able to send 172 terabits per second of data through a single multicore fiber.
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UC Berkeley's AI-Powered Robot Teaches Itself to Drive Off-Road
A new robot learning system can learn about the environment through its own experiences in the real world.
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Iran Unveils Its Most Advanced Humanoid Robot Yet
A team of researchers at the University of Tehran in Iran has developed a fourth version of the Surena humanoid robotic system.
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Reconfigurable Robot Can Climb Up Its Own Track
Researchers in Israel have developed a mobile robot that can change its entire body shape on a link-by-link basis, using an extra actuator to "build its own track...
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Hand-Tracking Tech Watches Riders in Self-Driving Cars to See If They're Ready to Take the Wheel
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
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The Bioacoustic Signatures of Our Bodies Can Reveal Our Identities
Researchers in South Korea have developed a biometric system that uses a transducer to generate vibrations and sound waves that can be used to identify individuals...
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Astrobee Performs First Autonomous Flight on the International Space Station
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobee robot is now up and running on the International Space Station (ISS).
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