#429937 “Walk This Way” – An ...

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Android

The NABiRoS (Non-Anthropomorphic Bipedal Robotic System) novel approach to an efficient “walking” system for humanoids places the legs in the sagittal plane and adds compliance to the feet, reducing the actuated degrees of freedom to just four! This drastically reduces complexity (thus, cost), and – perhaps, more importantly – weight.

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#430020 How Robots Will Win Your Trust

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Android

What images come to mind when you think of robots?
The lifelike replicas of Blade Runner? A favorite video game character or perhaps Aldebaran and SoftBank's quirky robot named Pepper?
Although researchers have made astounding advances in robotics, robots have yet to approach their fictionalized counterparts in many areas. The greatest of these is their ability to gain our trust.
Trust is a foundation of our society. Whether implicit or explicit, our trust in one another forms the very basis of how […] Continue Reading…

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#430009 Draper’s Genetically Modified ...

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Android

A live dragonfly with a cybernetic backpack and optical implants is now airborne[Read more…]

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#430007 ‘Harder, better, faster, ...

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Android

What if running the 26.2 miles of a marathon only felt like running 24.9 miles, or if you could improve your average running pace from 9:14 minutes/mile to 8:49 minutes/mile without weeks of training? Researchers at the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University have demonstrated that a tethered soft exosuit can reduce the metabolic cost of running on a treadmill by 5.4% compared to not wearing the exosuit, bringing […] Continue Reading…

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#429999 Human-level AI Is Right Around the ...

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Android

Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, and others weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence[Read more…]

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