Moravec‘s Paradox

Andy MacDonald / Stuff A new pill checking robot a first for Taranaki and one of only a few in New Zealand. While many businesses struggle with staff shortages, a Taranaki pharmacy has invested more than $250,000 in robots to free their staff up from packaging prescriptions. At the start…

A neural network forms the basis of many modern artificial intelligence set-ups, and now the concept has been applied to a purely mechanical calculating machine Technology 19 October 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A mechanical neural network built from beams of variable stiffness Lee et al., Sci. Robot. 7, eabq7278 (2022)…

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program has had several off road races. Experiment 1 took place March-April 2022 on six courses of combat-relevant terrain. The teams did more than 40 autonomous runs of about 2 miles each and reached speeds just under 20 miles per hour.…

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Alas, poor Bastion! I knew him, Torbjorn Robot damage hero Bastion has been unplayable in Overwatch 2 for the past week due to some unfortunate shenanigans with his artillery ultimate.…

A Twitter post featuring a video of a robot dog firing a gun that’s racked up nearly 120,000 likes since July. Videos of Ukrainian soldiers apparently modifying off-the-shelf drones to airdrop weapons. An art project featuring Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot most known for viral dancing videos, outfitted with a…

When it comes to self-driving cars, there are still plenty of concerns ranging from safety and technology to price and availability. But one robotaxi company wants potential riders to imagine what switching to self-driving cars might look like as it readies to drive around more cities’ streets. As it gets…

According to a report by the Intercept published Monday, an Oakland police spokesperson said that despite objections from a civilian oversight board, the department still has its sights on using said robots. The police department needs permission from a "governing body," per California law, to use military-grade percussion-activated non-electric (or PAN)…

GENEVA (AP) — For their first trip to a celebrated robotics contest for high school students from scores of countries, a team of Ukrainian teens had a problem. With shipments of goods to Ukraine uncertain, and Ukrainian customs officers careful about incoming merchandise, the group only received a base kit…

The robots are coming. Literally. A fleet of knee-high food delivery robots will soon be scooting around Chicago sidewalks following the expansion of a University of Illinois pilot program. The white, compact bots with little orange flags and vaguely tortoise-like bodies will bleep-bloop food from participating businesses to locations within…

And now the game of submarine hide-and-seek may be approaching the point at which submarines can no longer elude detection and simply disappear. It may come as early as 2050, according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. This timing is…