Created by a team of researchers from IBM Japan, the University of Tokyo, and Yamaha Motors, this robot is the latest attempt to extend human creativity to machines. Instead of simply replicating images or photographs, this robot is given a concept that it then materializes with its paintbrush. The researchers …
Read More »Scrubbing Dishes Sucks But This Robot Will Do It For Us
Dishcraft is on a mission to automate dishrooms in commercial kitchens. Their robot solution uses AI and computer vision to check for dirt, rinse, and scrub dishes, and it’s already comparable to human employees. More than a hundred years after Josephine Cochrane invented the first dishwasher, Linda Pouliot, Dishcraft’s CEO, …
Read More »Soon You’ll Be Able to Lose to This Jenga-playing Robot
Robots, they might take your jobs tomorrow, and they could be beating you at Jenga sooner than that. MIT researchers have taught a robot the basics of the classic table-top game, and well it’s pretty impressive because they had to make it understand physics and the sense of touch. Bravo, …
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