#438286 Humanoids that’ll blow your mind!

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Android

Here, the PRO Robots Channel highlights five of the most advanced humanoid robots.

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#438921 Disney’s creepy humanoid ...

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Android

This video by Disney Research using a humanoid animatronic bust demonstrates a very realistic and interactive lifelike gaze in human-robot interactions, thus creating “the illusion of life”. Cool, but creepy as heck!

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#439187 Video Friday: Good Robots for Bad Knees

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Android

Video 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!):
ICRA 2021 – May 30-5, 2021 – [Online Event]
RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event]
DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA
WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, […] Continue Reading…

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#439183 This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From ...

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Android

ROBOTICS
The Robot Surgeon Will See You NowCade Metz | The New York Times“Real scalpels, artificial intelligence—what could go wrong? …The [Berkeley] project is a part of a much wider effort to bring artificial intelligence into the operating room. Using many of the same technologies that underpin self-driving cars, autonomous drones and warehouse robots, researchers are working to automate surgical robots too. These methods are still a long way from everyday use, but progress is accelerating.”
FUTURE
This Tech Was Science Fiction […] Continue Reading…

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#439178 Mechanical engineer offers perspective ...

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Android

The field of soft robotics has exploded in the past decade, as ever more researchers seek to make real the potential of these pliant, flexible automata in a variety of realms, including search and rescue, exploration and medicine.[Read more…]

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