Conventional robots navigate much like humans do, relying on detailed maps of the area they are in to get around. This allows the robot to maintain an accurate estimate of its own location, but comes ...

Abstract: Existing approaches often operate poorly in noisy or occluded conditions, rely on cloud-based inference subject to latency and privacy issues, and do not take emotional context into ...

In test automation, practical experience will always matter most. Nobody becomes a strong Robot Framework developer just by passing an exam. But at the same time, one question has always been ...

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Toyota’s CUE7 robot uses AI to learn basketball shooting through trial and error instead of fixed programming. The 7-foot-2 robot is lighter, faster and more agile ...

As AI seeps ever deeper into our judicial system, boosters insist it will bring fairness and efficiency. The way AI is being developed suggests otherwise. Justice is often depicted as a blindfolded ...

Pedicle screw placement (PSP) consists of implanting a plurality of screws into vertebral pedicles for spinal stabilization (Ledonio et al., 2013). Considering the proximity of the surgical field ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Monday that Ukraine had captured a Russian position using an entirely unmanned robot ground force. "For the first time in the history of this war, ...

Abstract: In human–robot interaction (HRI), detecting a human’s gaze helps robots interpret user attention and intent. However, most gaze detection approaches rely on specialized eye-tracking hardware ...

Researchers in China have developed a new system that significantly improves how humanoid robots learn to play tennis, marking a step forward in robotic athletic performance. The project, created with ...

When you get an email saying Olaf is in town for one day only, you drop what you’re doing and make plans to meet him. That’s what happened last week, as io9/Gizmodo was invited to the research and ...

Oil spills are a major source of marine pollution, threatening wildlife, contaminating coastlines, and incurring high economic costs. In response, engineers in Australia have developed a robotic ...