Source: Tracy Staedter, Seeker.com, April 18, 2018 A pair of stationary robotic arms successfully executed the roughly 50 steps required to put together an IKEA STEFAN chair. Anyone who’s ever assembled furniture from IKEA understands the daunting task at hand. The pile of loose parts, wonky shapes, and pages of instructions that are both rudimentary… Continue reading This Robot Assembled an IKEA Chair in 20 Minutes
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MIT’s Biomimetic Soft Robot Swims With the Fishes
Source: Glenn McDonald, Seeker.com, March 22, 2018 The lifelike movements of the robot mean it can navigate aquatic environments without triggering any discernible alarm among marine life. As the old saying goes, there are indeed plenty of fish in the sea. But not many have servo motors, a lithium polymer battery, and a 3D-printed silicone… Continue reading MIT’s Biomimetic Soft Robot Swims With the Fishes
Scientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot… and It MOVED
Source: Seeker.com, January 11, 2018 This robot has the digitized brain of a worm in it and it functions autonomously. Here’s what it means for the future of AI. Worms are weird, primitive creatures that seem to just squirm around senselessly. However, this simplistic behavior is exactly what we are looking for in our endeavours… Continue reading Scientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot… and It MOVED
Harry Potter Written By A Robot
While some jobs are being replaced at a rapid rate by robots, it is fair to say that the job of best selling author is safe from our modern day technology. After training an algorithmic tool on all seven of JK Rowling’s original wizarding novels, the bot came up with the chapter, titled ‘The Handsome… Continue reading Harry Potter Written By A Robot
One small backflip for a robot is one giant leaping backflip for humankind
Source: Paul Miller, TheVerge.com, November 17, 2017 It’s a barely-believable jump forward for the state of the art. It’s astonishing. It’s a moon landing, basically, except instead of all of the people of Earth gathering around tube televisions to witness it, it just popped up on our social feeds yesterday afternoon without warning. Read full… Continue reading One small backflip for a robot is one giant leaping backflip for humankind
New and Improved RoboBee Flies, Dives, Swims, Then Flies Again
Source: Glenn McDonald, Seeker.com, November 1, 2017 A Harvard engineering lab has been building a robotic bee for more than 25 years, and it can now do things that even real bees can’t manage. For more than 25 years now, a quiet little design lab at Harvard has been working on a unique robotics project… Continue reading New and Improved RoboBee Flies, Dives, Swims, Then Flies Again
Boston Dynamics’ latest robot dog is slightly less terrifying
Source: Nick Statt, TheVerge.com, November 13, 2017 Robot maker Boston Dynamics, now owned by Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank, just published a short YouTube clip featuring a new, more advanced version of its SpotMini robot. SpotMini, first unveiled in June 2016, started out as a giraffe-looking chore bot that was pretty terrible at performing tasks around… Continue reading Boston Dynamics’ latest robot dog is slightly less terrifying