Last September Altmann and ethicist Robert Sparrow from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, traveled to the home of Sheffield
University robotics researcher Noel Sharkey in the U.K. (Asaro attended electronically.)
asks Sanjiv Singh, a Carnegie Mellon
University robotics researcher and CEO of Near Earth Autonomy, a start - up developing intelligent flight systems.
Not exact matches
Researchers from the National
University of Singapore have created a bevy of
robotic swans that test the quality of drinking water in Singapore's reservoirs.
That included more than 40
robotics researchers from Carnegie Mellon
University in 2015 and then in August 2016, the self - driving truck company Otto.
At Duke
University Medical Center in North Carolina,
researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move
robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.
Researchers at Eindhoven
University of Technology in the Netherlands are using iCat, a
robotic cat made by Philips, to advise on energy use.
In a new study,
researchers based at Osaka
University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a
robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.
Chris Atkeson, a
robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says that such bespoke control systems require expertise to design.
«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping - winged aerial robot with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral
researcher at the
University of Illinois who is the first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic
Robotic Platform to Study Flight Specializations of Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics on February 1.
«The goal of the toolkit is to advance the field of soft
robotics by allowing designers and
researchers to build upon each other's work,» says Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
University.
Much of the material included in the toolkit sprang from the labs of Robert J. Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, and chemist George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers
University Professor, two
researchers whose work has helped establish Harvard as a leader in soft
robotics.
«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s
Robotics Institute, one of six teams of
robotics researchers (along with the Florida
University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford
University, the
University of Southern California and the
University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.
«Research has shown that if you have a robot that has many human - like features, then people might actually react negatively towards it,» agrees Kerstin Dautenhahn, a
robotics researcher at the
University of Hertfordshire in the UK, who calls Jules» copycat routine «very impressive».
Hod Lipson, a
robotics researcher at Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York, says much more is possible.
University of Stuttgart
researchers have created what some say is the first permanent building to be significantly designed and built using
robotics.
University of California, Berkeley,
researchers have developed a
robotic learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before.
Medical students perform better in real - life emergencies if they trained with a simulator that appears and behaves like a real person, said Karl MacDorman, a
robotics researcher at Indiana
University.
Eager to break the so - called 10 - hour barrier, Fumihide Tanaka, a
robotics researcher at the
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and colleagues tested the Sony QRIO, a state - of - the - art humanoid robot that can recognize faces and respond to touch.
Researchers at the
University of Southampton have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth — known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)-- during first voyage of the yellow
robotic submersible known as Boaty McBoatface, which arrived back in the UK last week.
University of Colorado Boulder
researchers have developed a new type of malleable, self - healing and fully recyclable «electronic skin» that has applications ranging from
robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices.
«This is the first time in the world that people can operate a
robotic arm to reach and grasp objects in a complex 3D environment using only their thoughts without a brain implant,» said Bin He, a
University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor and lead
researcher on the study.
A group of academic
researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown
University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart
robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.
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Through recent breakthroughs in
robotics, computing, and neuroscience,
researchers at John Hopkins
University have recently reported a tremendous feat.
MIT Technology Review divulged that a team of
robotics researchers from several European
universities, RoboHow, are trying to impart knowledge to robots about cooking, among the other necessary things.