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People will have the chance to fly a drone, experience virtual reality, and meet a robotic dog at next month's Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar. The free annual event, aimed at children aged five to 16, attracts hundreds of families from across Oxfordshire and beyond. This year, it will feature 70…

Posted February 22, 2025 8:00 pm 2 min read Students with the Alberta Tech Alliance Association are preparing for the Canadian Pacific Regional Competition. Drew Stremick / Global News Max Du and the rest of the Forge 4421 team were busy Saturday making adjustments and tweaks to their robot before…

WATCH the haunting moment the world's first humanoid robot Protoclone - complete with muscles and bones - twitches and spasms into life. The robot is a "clone" designed to look as human as possible - gristle, sinew and all - and its creators hope it'll soon be lurking around our…

Sanctuary AI has revealed better hand sensors for their humanoid robots. It is a new generation of tactile sensor technology optimized to improve dexterous manipulation. Sanctuary is believes great robot hands are performing all of the high value tasks in the workplace when combined with AI and sensors. This requires…

Image credit: Snapshot Games You are playing a co-op session with Julian Gollop, Snapshot Games's CEO and the man who created XCOM. He's showing you Chip n' Clawz vs. The Brainioids, a real time strategy game where you'll gather resources, fabricate structures, and give orders to robot minions in battles…

About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot , which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant performance improvements on Spot, including a…

STOCKHOLM — Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump's administration that the region's strict tech rules are choking innovation. Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy…

More than 4.7 million users played the Pixonic mobile shooter monthly in 2024 Image credit: Pixonic This is a News-in-brief article, our short format linking to an official source for more information. Read more about this story by following the link below: War Robots reaches $1bn in lifetime revenue Read…

Credit: Baidu Chinese technology giant Baidu will expand its autonomous ride-hailing business “faster than ever” and is seeking collaborative partners to multiply its driverless fleet size, chief executive Robin Li told investors on Tuesday during an earnings call. “We have identified a variety of potential partners, including mobility service providers,…

Unitree Robotics' humanoid robots sees orders surge after Spring Festival Gala performance. Credit: CCTV Demand for Unitree Robotics’ humanoid robots surged after their dance performance during the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV, a sales manager from Unitree told the Chinese media outlet Jiupai News on Tuesday. On Jan. 28, to…