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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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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

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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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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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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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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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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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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Harvard's UrchinBot Is One of the Weirdest Looking Robots We've Ever Seen

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin




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The Blogger Behind "AI Weirdness" Thinks Today's AI Is Dumb and Dangerous

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI



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Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation Models

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”



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Quadruped Robots Can Climb Ladders Now

This robot dog can scale ladders that a real dog would struggle with




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Video Friday: Invasion of the Mini Cheetah Robots

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Why People Demanded Privacy to Confide in the World’s First Chatbot

In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough



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Bipedal Robot Cassie Cal Learns to Juggle

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head




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Cerebras Unveils First Installation of Its AI Supercomputer at Argonne National Labs

Argonne will use the CS-1 to help discover cancer therapies and understand colliding blackholes




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Predicting the Future with AI and Sound, Starting With Robots in Space

Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen



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  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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Video Friday: Robotic Endoscope Travels Through the Colon

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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In 2016, Microsoft’s Racist Chatbot Revealed the Dangers of Online Conversation

The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values



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SnotBot Drone Swoops Over Blowholes to Track Whale Health

The SnotBot project uses drones, data, and deep learning to tell us about the health of whales and the oceans