To Catch Up In Humanoids, Embrace Intermediate Robotics Applications

Early humanoid deployments will often rely on teleoperation: humans controlling robots remotely to perform useful tasks while ...
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MIT Engineers Build Robot That Can Catch, Lift Seniors If They Fall

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Over 11,000 Americans turn 65 each day, and with each passing year comes more risk for one of the most dangerous threats of aging: falls. But have no fear! Researchers from the ...
Daily Journal

Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia. But they’re on a long road to catch up to AI

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they ...
ExtremeTech

Judgment Day update: Disney's grenade-catching robot, and the burger-flipping robot that could replace 2 million US workers

If a recent trio of robotics and AI announcements are anything to go by, Judgment Day-- the futuristic apocalypse in Terminator where computers and robots become self-aware and wage war on humans -- ...
Modesto Bee

AI hype? Caltrans robot dog gets credit for solving a crime that never happened

A semi-autonomous robot dog that uses artificial intelligence to perform actions such as walking filmed someone peering through a Caltrans fence — a move that one official equated with catching a ...
Newsday

Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia. But they're on a long road to catch up to AI

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled ...