Piano Playing Robot
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SAIT provides support for distracted walkers
Robots on campus help students and staff increase productivity between classes Calgary, AB (April 1, 2015) — SAIT Polytechnic has taken steps to ensure students and staff can safely navigate around campus without looking up from their cell phones and other devices. The Walk-a-Bot program began as a pilot project last month with six robots […]
Autonomous Drones by startups
See the post on theverge, about navigating drones.
AI to replace jobs or make lives better?
During a recent event in New York, Google CEO argued that AI is here not to take away our jobs, but to make our lives better, at the same time reorganizing the way new jobs are created. You can read about the report on Newsweek here. Google recently acquired several robotics and AI companies, the […]
Honeybee’ robots replicate swarm behaviour
Computer scientists have created a low-cost, autonomous micro-robot which in large numbers can replicate the behaviour of swarming honeybees Colias – named after a genus of butterfly – is an open-platform system that can be used to investigate collective behaviours and applied to swarm applications. Robotic swarms that take inspiration from nature have become a […]
Security robot by Knightscope
One of the jobs that humans will likely loose to robots very soon, will be security, it seems. In one of the most recent news appeared on the net, Microsoft has announced that it has robot security guard patrols in its campus. To see the report on pcmag, visit here. Knightscope developed an autonomous technology […]
Microsoft is shutting down robotics division
Apparently not being feasible enough, Microsoft decided to shut down its robotics division, IEEE reports. The company was known in robotics field, especially with its software, Microsoft robotics studio. We currently have no information if this software will also be discontinued or not. Currently it is a full functioning software and download is freely available.
Robot Cheetah by MIT
MIT guys are at it again… This time it is a robot cheetah… It can run at speeds up to 10 mph (16 kmh) and can jump over obstacles of considerable heights, in comparison to its height. The robot also demonstrates for the first time that electrically powered motors can be used to operate this […]
Drone flies across US for the first time
A navy drone called “Triton”, just flew across the US, Washington Post reported. The drone was able to climb up to the heights of 50,000 feet and will be mainly used for surveillance missions.
Robots doing construction
You can see the robots doing construction by themselves… See the full story on Physorg