Chronicling Robots Since 2011
Last week, my daughter broke her wrist playing soccer. This week her team won the championship in spite of missing their starting goalie. Part of living is adjusting to challenges. Now, robots can also heal themselves by tapping into experiences from simulated lives, according to a new study from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France. … Read more
In our home, we have 5 kids, 1 dog and 2 robots. These robots help us clean the floors primarily. While my wife loves to cook, it can get a little demanding being a short order cook for a variety of household diets. I can’t wait to tell her what the people at the University … Read more
Everyone wants superpowers, but only a few are born with extraordinary abilities. Usain Bolt’s speed (as indicated by his last name) is as close as we have to going as fast as a cheetah. Well, that was true up until this week. Now researchers at MIT have built a robotic cheetah that outpaces even the … Read more
Last week, I ventured to wonder who would win in a battle of the bots – NASA’s Valkyrie or Boston Dynamics’s ATLAS. I think Google just weighed in with the answer. Google’s acquisition of BD is probably the biggest deal to hit the Robot Industry since Amazon’s purchase of Kiva systems last March. Astute observers … Read more