#439136 Video Friday: Aquatic Snakebotics

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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#439132 This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021Charles Q. Choi | IEEE Spectrum“If you haven’t had time to read the AI Index Report for 2021, which clocks in at 222 pages, don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. The massive document, produced by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, is packed full of data and graphs, and we’ve plucked out 15 that provide a snapshot of the current state of AI.”
FUTURE
Geoffrey Hinton Has a Hunch About […] Continue Reading…

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#438745 Social robot from India

The Indian humanoid “SHALU” is able to speak in 9 Indian, and 38 foreign languages, can recognize faces, and identity people and objects!

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#439127 Cobots Act Like Puppies to Better ...

Human-robot interaction goes both ways. You’ve got robots understanding (or attempting to understand) humans, as well as humans understanding (or attempting to understand) robots. Humans, in my experience, are virtually impossible to understand even under the best of circumstances. But going the other way, robots have all kinds of communication tools at their disposal. Lights, sounds, screens, haptics—there are lots of options. That doesn’t mean that robot to human (RtH) communication is easy, though, because the ideal communication modality […] Continue Reading…

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#439125 Baubot comes out with two new robots to ...

Despite artificial intelligence and robotics adapting to many other areas of life and the work force, construction has long remained dominated by humans in neon caps and vests. Now, the robotics company Baubot has developed a Printstones robot, which they hope to supplement human construction workers onsite.[Read more…]

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