#439247 Drones and Sensors Could Spot Fires ...The speed at which a wildfire can rip through an area and wreak havoc is nothing short of awe-inspiring and terrifying. Early detection of these events is critical for fire management efforts, whether that involves calling in firefighters or evacuating nearby communities.
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#439243 Scientists Added a Sense of Touch to a ...Most people probably underestimate how much our sense of touch helps us navigate the world around us. New research has made it crystal clear after a robotic arm with the ability to feel was able to halve the time it took for the user to complete tasks.
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#439241 The MIT humanoid robot: A dynamic ...Creating robots that can perform acrobatic movements such as flips or spinning jumps can be highly challenging. Typically, in fact, these robots require sophisticated hardware designs, motion planners and control algorithms.[Read more…]
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#439237 Agility Robotics’ Cassie Is Now ...Bipedal robots are a huge hassle. They’re expensive, complicated, fragile, and they spend most of their time almost but not quite falling over. That said, bipeds are worth it because if you want a robot to go everywhere humans go, the conventional wisdom is that the best way to do so is to make robots that can walk on two legs like most humans do. And the most frequent, most annoying two-legged thing that humans do to get places? […] Continue Reading…
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#439235 Video Friday: Intelligent Drone SwarmsVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):
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