Watch This 'Dragon' Drone Slither Through the Air Like a Flying Snake. Google Employees Are Resigning Over The Company's Latest Project. Google is working on a military drone project with the Department of Defense and its employees aren’t happy about it.
So unhappy, in fact, that many are resigning in protest. According to Gizmodo, roughly a dozen Google employees have announced they’ll be leaving the company in light of its involvement in “Project Maven”, a military program that controversially uses machine-learning and image-recognition software to sift through millions of hours of drone-captured video footage and identify things of interest – people included. Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers. Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers around the world have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky machines to bend and flex in ways that mimic and can interact more naturally with living organisms.
However, increased flexibility and dexterity has a trade-off of reduced strength, as softer materials are generally not as strong or resilient as inflexible ones, which limits their use. Now, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created origami-inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water pressure. The study will be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Festo's Incredible New Robot Arm. Erle Robotics. Unitree Robotics, le Boston Dynamics chinois, veut démocratiser les robots.
Theconversation. Après la dissuasion nucléaire, l’art de la guerre s’apprête à connaître la plus grande mutation de son histoire avec la robotisation du champ de bataille et l’émergence d’armements autonomes.
Comme pour toute transition de rupture, interrogations, craintes et prophéties plus ou moins rationnelles accompagnent le mouvement. À ce titre, le très réputé Future of Life Institute d’Oxford publiait en 2015 une lettre ouverte signée par plusieurs milliers de scientifiques souhaitant alerter l’opinion publique sur les risques liés au développement d’armes autonomes. Dans le second paragraphe de cette désormais célèbre mise en garde, on pouvait lire la phrase prémonitoire : Meet Octobot, The First Ever Fully Soft-Bodied Robot.
Within the world of robotics, squishiness has for some time been something of a holy grail, with engineers seeking to create machines with no hard components, allowing for greater contortion and the ability to squeeze through tight spaces.
Octopuses are the perfect naturally-occurring blueprint for such a robot, thanks to their capacity to morph and warp their bodies depending on the obstacles they encounter. Bringing cephalopod design into the future, a team of scientists from Harvard has now created the “octobot”, which has the honor of being the world’s first soft-bodied robot. Until now, most soft robots had included at least some hard components, such as fuel containers, cables, or other power sources. Boston Dynamics presents the 'next generation' Atlas robot. New Underwater Drone Flies AND Swims. These Robots Will 3D Print a Steel Bridge Over a Canal in Amsterdam. 3D printing is stuck in a box.
Most of the printers on the market are relatively small, and the scale of objects is limited by the print area. This is acceptable for parts, tools, or toys. But let’s say you want to print something bigger—like a building. You could scale the box up and print it piece by piece, assembling the pieces on site. Or you could get rid of the box entirely. The Dutch design company, MX3D, is opting for the latter approach.
The bridge project, in partnership with Autodesk and a number of other supporters, is possible thanks to MX3D's earlier efforts to 3D print using six-axis robotic arms. Electronic Interfaces: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds. EE40LX teaches the fundamentals of engineering electronic interfaces between the physical world and digital devices.
Students can expect to cover the material of a traditional first circuits course with a project-based approach. We start with essential theory and develop an understanding of the building blocks of electronics as we analyze, design, and build different parts of a robot from scratch around a microcontroller. This course uses the Texas Instruments MSP430G2 LaunchPad, but you are welcome to bring whichever development board or microcontroller you like! Useful mathematics will be discussed where appropriate, but only a working knowledge of high school algebra is required to follow along for most of the course. The philosophy of the course is to learn by doing, so every lecture features a substantial lab component. Artificial Brain that can Educate Itself Created by Russian Scientists.
Image Credit: Shutterstock Artificial Brain that can Educate Itself Created by Russian Scientists Russian scientists are one step closer to crafting full artificial intelligence.
A physical model of a brain has been designed, with the ability to educate itself. Tomsk State University in western Siberia housed an international team of scientists who “built mathematical and computer models of the human brain,” said the head of the laboratory, Professor FIT Vladimir Syryamkin. Will These Giant Robots Do Battle? American MegaBot Challenges Japan’s Kuratas Mecha - Singularity HUB. Two proud countries, two extraordinary warriors…one title.
Just like Rocky IV. Only instead of Sly and Dolph, substitute a 15-foot, 6-ton American robot going toe-to-toe with a 12.5-foot, 5-ton Japanese mecha. In a YouTube video worthy of Don King, the makers of MegaBot just challenged Japan’s Kuratas to combat—bot-to-bot. How did we get here? Lily - The Camera That Follows You. L'intelligence artificielle, futur de l'entreprise, Sciences & Prospectives. Robotics Researchers Create Mechanical Tentacles Capable Of Picking Up An Ant Without Crushing It. This creepy robot tentacle could one day be fiddling with your veins.
Researchers were able to use the tiny, but remarkably soft, robot ‘limb’ to pick up an ant by its waist without crushing it. This robotic limb has the potential to revolutionize microscopic surgery. The study, published in Scientific Reports, demonstrated how the robotic tentacle, which is a microtube made from a stretchy polymer, can gently curl around objects, pick them up and move them. These microtubes are seriously small, about the length of an average red ant and the width of a human hair. They can also curl up to 200 microns in diameter. Researchers have previously found it challenging to create miniaturized soft robots—inspired by biological systems such as tentacles—for tiny applications.
As Live Science explains, researchers created these microtubes by first dipping thin wires or optical fibers in liquid silicone rubber. Image credit: Jaeyoun Kim / Iowa State University. The Personal Laser Gun You Always Wished You Had is Now a RealityVideo. Cette caméra française vous dit qui vient chez vous en votre absence. Self-Healing Robot Can Adapt To Injury Within Minutes. From putting out forest fires to grabbing you a cup of coffee, robots have the potential to be hugely beneficial to humans.
The problem, however, is that they seem to fall apart when they’re injured. A new study published in Nature may have just overcome this hitch by creating a robot that learns to adapt to its injuries. What could possibly go wrong? Robotique. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La robotique est l'ensemble des techniques permettant la conception et la réalisation de machines automatiques ou de robots. Open source 3D printed and modular robotic platform. La présentation de MYO.
Développeurs, notre API vous permet d'expérimenter le matériel sophistiqué de MYO, construire et profiter d'applications étonnantes avec notre technologie de contrôle gestuel. Le programme de développeur démarre bientôt. Vos muscles parlent, MYO les écoutent. US Military's 'Self-steering' Bullets Can Hit A Moving Target. Well, this is terrifying. As if the U.S. Honeybee Brain Flies A Drone. By digitally reconstructing the complete brain of the European honeybee, Apis mellifera, researchers with the Green Brain Project hope to one day create an autonomous flying robot that thinks, senses, and acts like the sophisticated pollinator.
"Bees and all other insects are miracles of engineering which we are nowhere near equaling," University of Sheffield’s James Marshall tells BBC. "If we could even recreate a fraction of their abilities in a robot system then we would have made a tremendous advance. " The honeybee has surprisingly advanced cognitive behaviors, despite how simple and small their brains are compared to that of vertebrates. Spotlight TEDx Talk: What makes us want to say thank you to robots? By Hailey Reissman on February 17, 2015 in Talks A user interacts with TEDxSadovoeRing speaker Yury Burov’s robot, Cubic When robotics expert Yury Burov left his vacuuming robot to clean his apartment and came home to find it caught in a pile of cords, he felt bad for the robot. But why, he wondered, did he feel sympathy for something that he knew was — in the end — only a bunch of 1s and 0s? This is what he explores in a talk at TEDxSadovoeRing, using examples culled from his work developing personal AI robots to look at how we connect emotionally with these machines, from saying, “Thank you,” when a robot turns on a light, to feeling bad when someone raises their voice at a robot.
Watch the whole talk below: Military Test Amphibious Robot Guard Balls. Though it looks more like a stability ball that you’d see at the gym, GuardBot is actually a spherical, amphibious robot with many potential uses for broadcasting, reconnaissance, or security. GuardBot was developed by a Connecticut-based company of the same name. Though it began as a potential bot for missions to Mars, it is now being tested by the United States military to possibly assist in future patrolling duties. The ball is about 60 centimeters (2 feet) in diameter, though it can be scaled up as large as 3 meters (9 feet) or as small as 10 centimeters (4 inches). The smaller version is perfect for searching underneath vehicles at security checkpoints. World's First Robot-Run Hotel Due To Open In Japan This July. Japan is renowned for being at the forefront of technology, and the country’s ongoing love affair with robots has helped them maintain their position as world leaders in this industry.
In spite of this, it was still a little surprising to find out that Japanese scientists have progressed the field so much that a hotel is due to be opened this year in Nagasaki which will be half-staffed by robots. Henn-na Hotel, which means either “strange” or “change” hotel, you pick the one that suits it best, will come to life in July this year. The 72-room hotel will be staffed by 10 people alongside 10 robots, in case you miss interacting with people. These so-called “actroids” are designed to be remarkably, and slightly creepily, human-like. Developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro, a branch of the company that licenses Hello Kitty, the humanoids bear the features and mannerisms of young Japanese women. Youtube. Drones Will Be Everywhere Watching, Listening, and…Planting Millions of Trees? Drones Will Be Everywhere Watching, Listening, and…Planting Millions of Trees? More and more people are getting to know drones, and not just the military kind.
Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice. Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots. The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) Google's driverless car is now "fully functional" News: Google has updated its prototype self-driving vehicle to make it road worthy, adding headlights and manual steering and braking to comply with road rules in California. DARPA Has Created Self-Guided, Mid-Flight Changing Bullets.
Markus Fischer: A robot that flies like a bird. The Day You’ll Prefer Robots to Humans. Hod Lipson: Building "self-aware" robots. Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot. How does my brain work? Million Robot Revolution Delayed—iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Hires More Humans. ‘Soft’ Robots From MIT and Harvard Open Up Possibilities for New Class of Bots.
MIT's New Robo-Cheetah Bounds Across Terrain Untethered.
Soft Robot Keeps Moving, Even After Getting Run Over By A Car. When Do We Get Catbots? We Have the Technology. Skully Motorcycle Helmet Not Quite Iron Man, But a Taste of Our Augmented Reality Future. Voici une nuée de 1000 robots capables de s’auto-assembler pour former une étoile (ou toute autre forme) Comment la foule enseigné un robot à construire une tortue de LEGO. Les microdrones de l'US AIR FORCE. Google Now est officiellement plus efficace que Siri. CHU Rennes : Les doigts du chirurgien pilotent un robot qui opère. Info. Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour. Bioengineers Build Circuit Board Modeled On The Human Brain. Scientists have developed a prototype for self-replicating robots. Mon pote le robot. Can Google Tango Make Off-the-Shelf Drones Autonomous?
Robot Velociraptor Runs Faster Than Usain Bolt. Un robot capable de se transformer en n'importe quel meuble pour aider les personnes à mobilité réduite. Hovercraft Coming To Market in 2017. Robobees. La conception d'un robot minisumo. New Robotic Fish Moves Like A Real Fish. Researchers Are Making A 3D Printer That Can Build A House In 24 Hours.