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Home News Entertainment Buzz Lightyear and Sox the robot cat in Pixar's Lightyear movie. (Image credit: Disney Pixar) The official trailer for Pixar's Lightyear film has given fans a better look at the space ranger under the helmet.  Villainous robots, cat companions – one that's sure to join the long…

Procurement Outlook Industrial robotics is a robot that is used in manufacturing. Often, they are colloquially called robotic arms. Industrial robots are programmed and automated to do very specific tasks. Usually, they are capable of movement of three or more axes. The most common functions that the industrial robots perform…

(Source: Megvii) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio During the ongoing Beijing Winter Olympics, local technology firm Megvii has been providing a range of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR)-related applications, including a precise navigation tool and pandemic control functions, to streamline operations and enhance the experience of athletes,…

Apple on Monday acquired AI Music, a startup that has developed a platform capable of creating songs using artificial intelligence. The acquisition, according to sources familiar with the matter, was completed in recent weeks. As reported by Bloomberg, AI Music’s technology can create royalty-free soundtracks using AI.The soundtracks are dynamic…

Summary: This new partnership will secure the entire robotics portfolio of inGen Dynamics with the highest level of IoT cybersecurity and preemptive mitigation protection available today. Palo Alto, California, 6th Feb 2022, ZEXPRWIRE, inGen Dynamics, a Palo Alto-based Robotics and AI company, has signed a definitive licensing agreement with Firedome, a…

Mixing gelatin and sugar syrup could make for a tasty 1900’s dessert. But it’s also the base of a gel-like substance that, in the future, could lead to cheap, bendy, and sustainable robots. Scientists at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria have built a tentacle-like robotic finger with gelatin and…

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…