Month: February 2018

This donut-shaped drone, not technically known as a dronut, offers a tasty combination of safety and ease of use

Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone

The risks that a robot’s ethics might be compromised by unscrupulous actors are so great as to raise serious doubts over the wisdom of embedding ethical decision making in real-world safety critical robots

Why Ethical Robots Might Not Be Such a Good Idea After All

The usefulness of bumbly, bouncy microdrones

Drones That Smash Into Obstacles Can Be a Good and Useful Thing

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Video Friday: Waffle Robots, Laser vs. Drone, and TurtleBot Tutorials

Automation-intensive sectors such as the automotive industry are not the only ones to rely on robots. In more and more agricultural settings, automation systems are superseding strenuous manual labor. Scientists are now developing and testing a dual-arm robot for the automated harvesting of cucumbers.
Lightweight robots harvest cucumbers

Researchers have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a human instructor.
New algorithms to train robots

The National Football League’s pitch competition features new technologies to promote athlete safety and performance

In Super Bowl of Startups, NFL Looks to Tackle Football Safety