Apparently, you can teach an old robot dog very cool new tricks. Boston Dynamics unveiled a bunch of upgrades for their famed ‘Spot’, including a robot arm attachment and long-distance remote control. Mashable is your source for the latest in tech, culture, and entertainment. Subscribe to Mashable: https://bit.ly/2DR64oM Watch more episodes …
Read More »This Robot Will Clean Up After You
ETH Zurich is developing a robot dog that seems to be much friendlier than the Boston Dynamics one. It can genuinely cooperate with humans to perform tasks such as moving heavy stuff, and it will even clean up after them. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE …
Read More »This Robotic Arm Will Feed You Every Time You Smile
Researchers at RMIT University in Australia built a social eating system that uses a robotic arm and facial recognition to transfer food from a plate to a person’s mouth. Arm-a-Dine uses mobile phone cameras to sense people’s facial expressions and decide whom to feed next. The person who smiles the …
Read More »Researchers Built A Low-Cost Robotic Arm That Folds Towels
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley built a low-cost robotic arm that is safe for humans to work alongside. BLUE’s creators hope that its $5,000 price tag will make it affordable enough so that more and more labs and companies will be able to purchase it and experiment with …
Read More »You Can Control This Robot by Flexing Your Muscles
In a new paper published today, MIT CSAIL researchers Joseph DelPreto and Daniela Rus used electromyography sensors to make communication between a robot and a human a lot more intuitive without the need for verbal cues. Their system, dubbed RoboRaise, is able to mirror the user’s movements by detecting and …
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