Moravec‘s Paradox

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Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering. In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles transition between order and disorder, as when a collection of randomly…

Shake, rattle, and help each other alongIn classical statistical mechanics, the deterministic dynamics of a many-body system are replaced by a probabilistic description. Chvykov et al. work toward a similar description for the nonequilibrium self-organization of collectives of active particles. In these systems, continuously input energy drives localized fluctuations, but…

Ever since I got my first Echo Dot a few years ago, I’ve been getting lazier and lazier — but I don’t necessarily see that as a bad thing. After all, if you can do quick math, check the weather, or order a pizza in a quarter of the time…

The funds raised will be used to implement its AI-driven, general-purpose robots in other areas such as services, agriculture, logistics, and medical care.Read More

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Spot the Robot Dog made headlines back in 2018 when Boston Dynamics shared several videos of the robotic creature – dancing to Bruno Mars and opening doors. It had most people concerned. Three months later, the company was back with another reveal: Atlas, a humanoid robot capable of an impressive parkour and…

To celebrate the upcoming New Year, the folks at Boston Dynamics released this video of all of their robots dancing to "Do You Love Me". I'm sure they meant for this to be in good fun, but obviously everybody is just imagining that this is what the robots will be…

I love this and I'm terrified Every few months, Boston Dynamics shares a clip of what it’s working on, and its latest video is arguably the company’s best yet. The robot is dancing in a very humanoid way this time, taking things a step further from when was last saw…

The robot evokes the friendliness of R2-D2, but has a lot to overcome Volkswagen has shown off a new commercial for its cute EV charging robot idea. The idea is still just a prototype, but the premise is that whenever people go and park places, they can summon this little…