Moravec‘s Paradox

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Hundreds of students from across the U.S. and Canada put their skills to the test at Lambeau Field in a robotics competition. Seventy-two teams are competing in a tournament with and against other students using robots they built over the past several months. Students and…

One of the biggest challenges in space exploration is the dangerous nature of space environments: many places we want to explore have no or low levels of oxygen, low or micro-gravity, and potentially dangerous space radiation. That’s why we send out robots like the Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity, which…

“The main reason is because the E.U. wants to step away from having proactive naval operations,” says international relations researcher Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, in Norway. Physical encounters with migrants involve at least two forms of legal jeopardy that European countries are trying to avoid:…

Humans have built cranes capable of lifting ridiculously heavy objects and moving them around with ease. We have also designed massive ships to transport large, heavy cargo across thousands of miles without breaking a sweat. But what if we wanted to perform something seemingly less spectacular? What if the goal…

by Jeff Foust — February 3, 2022 Quantum Space, a startup co-founded by former NASA associate administrator Steve Jurczyk, plans to develop platforms hosting payloads in cislunar space serviced by robotic spacecraft. Credit: Quantum Space WASHINGTON — A startup led by a former acting administrator of NASA has announced plans…

A flying robot with wings controlled by an electric field instead of heavy motors and gears slightly outperforms insect muscles Technology 2 February 2022 By Alex Wilkins A small robot with wings like an insect can fly and generate more power than a similarly sized animal in nature. Most flying…

JLG Industries has partnered with RE2 Robotics to advance the integration of robotics with access equipment, increasing operator safety and productivity on the job site. "Robotic technologies have long been used in a variety of industries," says Frank Nerenhausen, Oshkosh Corporation executive vice president and president, JLG Industries. "The productivity…

Published January 30, 2022 1:30PM article A team from Johns Hopkins University successfully used a robot to perform a complex abdominal surgery — this time, without guidance from humans.  The STAR, short for Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, operated on the soft tissue of pigs to reconnect two ends of an intestine,…

The proposed Lunar Crater Radio Telescope would turn a crater on the far side of the moon into a massive dish-shaped antenna to survey the universe, accumulating massive amounts of data that need to be sent back to Earth for analysis.NASA/JPL If that comes to pass, lunar denizens will need…

Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2022 --(PR.com)-- The Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 16th General Assembly, the first of 2022, approving its 2022 work program. The work program includes the development of reference software, conformance testing and per-formance assessment for 2…