by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | News
Outside Bujumbura International Airport in the capital city of Burundi, six teenagers bound for Washington D.C. to compete in an international robotics competition locked hands with parents and relatives to pray one last time before boarding their flight. In Kirundi,...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
It’s called a fulfillment centre, built to ship thousands of Amazon orders a day. But what it is really fulfilling is the dream of the future. The robot carrying bins of product stands in line and zips forward, waiting for the Amazon associate to dig through its...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | News
At the last minute, the Afghan team did get visas. They waved their country’s flag during the parade of nations at the event’s opening ceremonies. And they showed off their robot. Like all the entries, it was designed to separate balls representing water...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Locomotion
Salto will let roboticists study jumping locomotion and could one day participate in search and rescue missions, too. If someone built a robot whose locomotion was modeled on that of a three-year-old kid hopped up on too much candy, it would probably act a whole lot...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Locomotion
Why is it so difficult to make walking more efficient in humans? There are a few challenges. People are highly complex, in the dynamics of our movements, in our hundreds of muscles and tendons, and in our wildly complex nervous systems. More on this...
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