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Soft Self-Healing Materials for Robots That Cannot Be Destroyed

It'll take more than having its fingers chopped off to stop this robot hand




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Video Friday: Misty Robotics Begins Shipping Its Programmable Personal Robot

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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RoMeLa's Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped

With four legs but no back or front, ALPHRED 2 can run, jump, and punch through boards in any direction




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How Much AI Expertise Do Thought Leaders and Companies Really Have?

Consultancy firm Certified Artificial, which is offering to certify AI companies, has demonstrated its prowess by rating the expertise of Elon Musk and Henry Kissinger



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Electronic License Plates for Drones May Come Soon

New drone standard for remote ID submitted for approval




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Water Jet Powered Drone Takes Off With Explosions

To take off from the water, this drone uses an explosion-powered water jet




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Video Friday: Watch This Robot Dog Explore an Underground Tunnel Autonomously

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Universal Robots Introduces Its Strongest Robotic Arm Yet

The Danish company is announcing a powerful new member of its collaborative robots family




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U.S. Energy Department is First Customer for World’s Biggest Chip

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers




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AI Agents Startle Researchers With Unexpected Hide-and-Seek Strategies

The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing



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This Startup Is Building Giant Robots to Grow Our Food

FarmWise is using AI and robotics to enhance farming efficiency by taking care of each plant individually




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Stochastic Robots Use Randomness to Achieve More Complex Goals

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion




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This "Useless" Social Robot Wants to Succeed Where Others Failed

The creators of Kiki believe they can build an emotionally engaging social home robot that is also "completely useless"




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Video Friday: Roller-Skating Quadruped Has Best of Both Worlds Mobility

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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The Ultimate Optimization Problem: How to Best Use Every Square Meter of the Earth's Surface

Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues




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Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Dog Goes on Sale

Here's everything we know about Boston Dynamics' first commercial robot




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Swappable Flying Batteries Keep Drones Aloft Almost Forever

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone




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Video Friday: Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off New Gymnastics Skills

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NASA Hiring Engineers to Develop “Next Generation Humanoid Robot”

Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development




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AI Faces Speed Bumps and Potholes on Its Road From the Research Lab to Everyday Use

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think



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Skydio’s New Drone Is Smaller, Even Smarter, and (Almost) Affordable

Skydio crams all its autonomous magic into a sleek consumer drone that costs under $1k




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Want a Really Hard Machine Learning Problem? Try Agriculture, Says John Deere Labs

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company



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Video Friday: Caltech's Drone With Legs Takes First Steps

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Drones as Detectives: Surveying Crime Scenes for Evidence

Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes




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From Mainframes to PCs: What Robot Startups Can Learn From the Computer Revolution

In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers




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Next-Gen AR Glasses Will Require New Chip Designs

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses




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Watch Astrobee's First Autonomous Flight on the International Space Station

For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space




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Video Friday: This Humanoid Robot Will Serve You Ice Cream

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Agility Robotics Unveils Upgraded Digit Walking Robot

The improvements include nimbler feet, better perception, and fully custom electronics




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Labrador Systems Developing Affordable Assistive Robots for the Home

A startup led by robotics veterans is announcing a pre-seed funding round with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund and iRobot Ventures




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OpenAI Teaches Robot Hand to Solve Rubik's Cube

Using reinforcement learning and randomized simulations, researchers taught this robot how to solve a Rubik's cube one-handed




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Skydio's Dock in a Box Enables Long-Term Autonomy for Drone Applications

This cozy little box provides a remote home for Skydio's fully autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone




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Video Friday: Transferring Human Motion to a Mobile Robot Manipulator

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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UAV-Based LiDAR Can Measure Shallow Water Depth

The topography and bathymetry payload for UAV




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A Path Towards Reasonable Autonomous Weapons Regulation

Experts representing a diversity of views on autonomous weapons systems collaborate on a realistic policy roadmap



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Zipline Deploys Medical Delivery Drones with U.S. Military

A military exercise in Australia demonstrates how small drones can airdrop critical medical supplies to soldiers in combat




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Quantum Computing Gets a Boost From AI and Crowdsourcing

Can an online game that combines human brainpower with AI solve intractable problems?




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Robot Teaches Kids Hand Washing Skills in Rural India

Pepe helps keep Indian children healthy by reminding them to wash up




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Let’s Build Robots That Are as Smart as Babies

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed



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Video Friday: Kuka's Robutt Is a Robot Designed to Assess New Car Seats

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Natural Language Processing Dates Back to Kabbalist Mystics

Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language



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Blue Frog Robotics Answers (Some of) Our Questions About Its Delayed Social Robot Buddy

Blue Frog Robotics CEO Rodolphe Hasselvander on the future of Buddy




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This MIT Robot Wants to Use Your Reflexes to Walk and Balance

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you




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Drones: For When Medical Intervention Has to Get There Before an Ambulance Can

New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives




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Is it Time for Tech to Stop Moving Fast and Breaking Things?

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies




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Video Friday: DJI's Mavic Mini Is a $400 Palm-Sized Foldable Drone

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them



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We're at IROS 2019 to Bring You the Most Exciting Robotics Research From Around the World

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference




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Microsoft's AI Research Draws Controversy Over Possible Disinformation Use

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation



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Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence



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