Hanson Robotics, the people who presented the world with the human-like robot Sophia have added a new member to their family. She’s called “Little Sophia,” and is a 14-inch robot meant to get kids hyped on STEM, coding and AI. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE …
Read More »Mowing Your Lawn Could Be Easier than Ever with This Little Robot
iRobot, the people who brought you the Roomba, are here again to solve another first-world problem – mowing the lawn. Their newest robot, Terra, can mow your green nice n’ easily after a pretty easy setup. If you’re in the U.S. though, you’re’ going to have to wait a bit …
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, …
Read More »This 3D Printed Robot Taught Itself To Ice Skate
Researchers at the Computational Robotics Lab of ETH Zurich have built a four-legged robot that taught itself how to ice skate. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE • Video – https://youtu.be/6ElleCub6uM • Video – https://youtu.be/jAu1ZsTCA64 • Video – https://youtu.be/W8T6fYt9-tA Subscribe to Mashable: http://on.mash.to/subscribe Best of playlist: https://on.mash.to/BestOf MASHABLE ACROSS THE WEB …
Read More »Boston Dynamics Robot is Now a Warehouse Worker
You might remember Boston Dynamics’ robot named Handle from 2017. Well, it looks a lot different today. Not only is it bigger and cooler looking, but now it can work in a warehouse, carrying boxes around seamlessly, putting us lazy humans to shame. Handle may not be the end of …
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 »The Robot that Recycles By Touch, Not by Sight
Developed by MIT CSAIL, RoCycle is a robot system that can automatically identify and sort recyclable materials using pressure sensors. The robot can differentiate between paper, metal, and plastic with an 85 per cent accuracy just by touching them. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture videos: http://on.mash.to/subscribe◄ MORE FROM MASHABLE • …
Read More »This Robot Helped Firefighters Extinguish the Notre-Dame Fire
One of the weapons that the Paris Fire Brigade used at its battle against the Notre-Dame blaze was a firefighting robot. Developed by Shark Robotics, Colossus is designed to be deployed in environments that are too hot and dangerous for human firefighters to operate. ► Subscribe for more tech & culture …
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 …
Read More »Boston Dynamics Robot Finally HAS A JOB | Mashable
Handle, one of Boston Dynamics’ fleet of humanoid and fairly frightening robots, is mature enough for a day job. In a partnership with OTTO Motors, Handle is seemingly happy to carry out the dullest of warehouse jobs – stacking and moving boxes. Mashable is your source for the latest in …
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