Sentences with phrase «of robotics research»

There is more than glory and $ 2 million prize money at stake: the competition could change the future of robotics research.

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There hasn't been much research into the longevity of these advanced robots, the report says, and more research would help people to better understand how to operate and interact with robots or robotic systems «that are used over the course of a decade or potentially longer.»
A recent Pew Research Center survey of scientists and other analysts showed a deep divide in opinions on the economic and employment implications of robotics.
«Their basic thought is robotics and A.I. are going to weave their way into more and more skills that used to be human skills,» says Lee Rainie, Pew's director of internet, science, and technology research.
This third facility will be near the University of Michigan, where it will fund research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and materials science.
«Once renovations are complete, Hangar One will again be home to high - tech innovation, as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, rover / robotics and other emerging technologies,» NASA said in a statement.
Dr. Keng Siau, chair and professor of business and information technology, writes in a new research paper that retailers are replacing their salespeople with «AI, robotics, and machine learning,» or, as Siau calls them, «sales machines.»
What can be said is this: Japan is one of the top investors in the world in artificial intelligence research, automation, and robotics technology in order to maintain productivity.
Unlike China, Japan has a long history of robotics and artificial intelligence research which has largely gone undiscussed in the media.
Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
Based on extensive and insightful research, we offer robotic solutions that improve the well - being of users.
Subsidies have sparked an explosion in the number of Chinese language robotics corporations from 200 to round 815 in two years, in accordance with OFWeek, a Chinese robot trade news website and research middle.
Therefore, replacing a lost limb with a robotic prosthesis is the subject of much research, yet successful outcomes are rare.
Science Robotics: original, peer - reviewed, science - or engineering - based research articles that advance the field of robotics and editor - commissioned reviews.
After conducting lots of robotic pool cleaner research, the Mirra emerged as the winner.
Science in the Obama years tilted the needle towards applied research — from the launch of the ambitious Precision Medicine Initiative to sequence the genomes of one million people, to the creation of a string of institutes to foster robotics and other innovative manufacturing technologies in partnership with private industry.
The event was mounted to educate members of Congress and their staff about recent progress in robotics and to communicate the need for continued support for robotics research.
Meanwhile, collaborators at The Scripps Research Institute screened millions of chemical compounds, using robotic technology to test each for their abilities to activate ATF6.
One of Sony's goals in providing programmers with the tools to modify AIBO was to encourage academic institutions exploring artificial intelligence and robotics to use the «dog» as a research platform.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.
Working with robotics company Boston Dynamics, based in Waltham, Mass., the researchers began developing the material as part of the Chemical Robots program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
«This research is relevant to the role of robotics and brain - machine interfaces as assistive devices, but also speaks to the ability of the brain to learn to function in new ways.
A recent editorial describes the journal's goal to select the most groundbreaking advances in robotics across applications, systems, and scales of general interest to the robotics and research community.
It is located at the heart of Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, in central Japan and houses eight research centers which focus on areas including intelligent sensing, robotics, agrotechnology, and optical information storage.
Science Robotics publishes original science - or engineering - based research articles that advance the field of robotics.
«This research is the first of its kind in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, and will soon enable drones to fly autonomously and faster than ever, including in low - light environments,» says Prof. Davide Scaramuzza, Director of the Robotics and Perception Group at UZH.
As chief scientist for a voyage of the research vessel Endeavor, oceanographer Melissa Omand oversaw everything from the deployment of robotic submarines to crew - member bunk assignments.
Interdisciplinary science is driving advances in marine and freshwater research — progress largely due to the use and ability of underwater robotics to collect data from some of the world's least hospitable regions, said scientists during a presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Washington headquarters.
By using the research ship and robotic vehicles together, the NOC team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.
President Obama's council will study «intellectual property issues, the application of neuro - and robotic sciences,... conflicts of interest in scientific research, and the intersection of science and human rights.»
A litter of robotic puppies exhibiting a form of artificial curiosity is being put through kindergarten at Sony's research and development lab in Paris, France.
«Playful curiosity is absolutely fundamental to learning in many animals,» says Steve Grand, founder of UK robotics research company Cyberlife Rresearch company Cyberlife ResearchResearch.
Focus articles are short, timely pieces that spotlight new research findings published in Science Robotics or other journals or policy issues of interest to the robotics community that are of immediate importance.
Project lead Dr Nicola Bellotto, an expert on machine perception and human - centred robotics from Lincoln's School of Computer Science, said: «This project will build on our previous research to create an interface that can be used to help people with visual impairments.
First, the research team set up a robotic microscope that simultaneously measures the nerve activity and behavior of a worm in the virtual odor space.
The research team, which includes Dr Oscar Martinez Mozos, a specialist in machine learning and quality of life technologies, and Dr Grzegorz Cielniak, who works in mobile robotics and machine perception, aim to develop a system that will recognise visual clues in the environment.
This research was partly based on seafloor sampling at hydrothermal vent sites using the NOC maintained robotic vehicle Isis, which was launched over the side of the RRS James Cook.
For the Harvard Mars project, Ruvkun and colleagues (including former postdoc Michael Finney, co-founder of MJ Research, a major manufacturer of PCR machines) are designing a small, robotic PCR detector that would perform onsite amplification and sequencing of any DNA present in extraterrestrial dirt.
The 4 - year - old institute consists of six core research areas focused on a wide range of technologies, from cancer vaccines to robotic bees that will pollinate plants.
This is an Atlas robot, one of seven made by robotics company Boston Dynamics to take part in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
«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».
Members of the research team held the device with adhesive pads during the test, but the eventual idea is to integrate the grippers into a robotic arm or leg.
Science Robotics will publish original, peer - reviewed, science - or engineering - based research articles that advance the field of robotics.
Valdivia y Alvarado and Youcef - Toumi benefited from a wealth of data produced by previous robotic fish research.
Sixteen years later he is still there, having observed the development of the foundation's research first - hand, starting with robotics and then moving on to focus on computers.
To promote advances in research and development of robotics for all environments by providing a central forum for communication of the most exciting new discoveries.
I'm associate director of research for the robotics institute at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
The research team is now starting to test the robotic system in a large animal model of short bowel syndrome.
In collaboration with doctoral candidate Paul Phamduy and NYU - Poly research scholar Giovanni Polverino, Porfiri designed an experiment to examine the interplay of visual cues and flow cues — changes in the water current as a result of tail - beat frequency — in triggering a live golden shiner fish to either approach or ignore a robotic fish.
These studies are the latest in a significant body of research by Porfiri and collaborators utilizing robots, specifically robotic fish, to impact collective animal behavior.
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