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That, in a sense, is what all roboticists do.

The company seeks to get around this problem with its autonomous vehicle lab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, staffed by former roboticists for Carnegie Mellon University.

Uber raided Carnegie Mellon University for its best roboticists, spent $ 670 million to buy autonomous truck company Otto, and, last August, proudly started picking up Pittsburgh passengers in robot - driven cars.

But those same people, in recent months, have begun asking why, nearly a decade after hiring top roboticists to build its project, Google has not delivered something to market.

«Food printers are not meant to replace conventional cooking — they won't solve all of our nutritional needs, nor cook everything we should eat,» says Lipson, a pioneering roboticist who works in the areas of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing at Columbia Engineering.

Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield, UK, who has criticised the use of autonomous weapons, fears that miniaturisation will lead to an escalation in use and pave the way for their global proliferation.

It's bold and out of keeping with anything I've ever seen to attach two arms to a human,» says Dave Barrett, a roboticist and mechanical engineer at Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts.

Their discomfort demonstrates what the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori referred to in 1970 as the «uncanny valley»: Our affinity toward robots and animations increases as they physically appear more humanlike, except for a large dip where they are almost but not quite there.

Developed by Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hagen Schempf, the Explorer - II features a remote - controlled fish - eye camera that allows above - ground operators to see what the machine does; drive - train motors that give operators unprecedented control over the pig's direction (most pigs still move passively according to natural gas flow); and a lightweight electromagnetic coil that detects changes in magnetized pipe walls without weighing the robot down, enabling it to inspect about two miles of pipe a day.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

For Leonard, a roboticist at MIT, riding in a car outfitted with Google's self - driving technology reminded him of another iconic moment in transportation: when the Wright brothers ushered in the age of air travel 111 years ago.

And their flexible, intelligent arms are the envy of roboticists and artificial intelligence engineers worldwide.But these animals, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, can teach us even more about security in the 21st century than camo and communications, Rafe Sagarin argues in his new book Learning from the Octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease (Basic Books, April 2012).

Drawing inspiration from the leafcutters, Eliseo Ferrante, a roboticist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues designed robots whose objective was to gather cylindrical blocks — the analog of leaves — at the top of a ramp and return them to a «nest» area at the bottom.

Given that crude exoskeletons as well as thought - controlled drones and prosthetic limbs already exist, Scientific American asked neuroscientist and roboticist Charles Higgins of the University of Arizona whether the kind of machine - enhanced human abilities in Elysium are likely anytime soon.

As Derrickson explained at a panel discussion on his film at the California Institute of Technology — where he was joined by Keanu Reeves, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory roboticist Joel Burdick — Shostak redacted some meaningless mumbo jumbo in the description of the spaceship's approach to Earth and replaced it with «The object was not following a gravitational free - fall trajectory; as such its path was recalculated.»

Roboticists are making halting progress in developing machines for specific tasks, such as decontaminating and removing melted nuclear fuel masses, but they know that their creations need to be adaptable.

The struggles of Japanese roboticists came despite a national program in the 1980s to develop robotics for nuclear power plants.

And at Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, roboticists are working on a swarm of underwater robots which they hope will one day be able to repair damaged coral reefs.

Howie Choset, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, thought he had the perfect solution.

Roboticists have long dreamed of making robotic collectives that could rival natural ones in number and function.

That's where we as roboticists may be leaving ourselves vulnerable to the lawyers, whereas in the commercial world you learn very much how to make things safe and what is important.

Roboticists Dario Floreano, Sara Mitri, and Stéphane Magnenat at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne collaborated with biologist Laurent Keller from the University of Lausanne.

Such a maneuverable machine could one day soar up the towering structures of a construction site, flying in and out of steel beams to help keep track of a building's progress, study coauthor Seth Hutchinson, a roboticist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, said in a news briefing January 31.

Ronald Arkin, a Georgia Institute of Technology roboticist, notes a dramatic drop in costs of building robots for his research: Making a bot now costs around $ 1,000 per unit, rather than $ 30,000.

Greg Chirikjian, a roboticist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, agrees.

But engineers and roboticists are now «proactively looking toward nature for solutions to specific engineering issues,» says Jollbot's designer, Rhodri Armour, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in England.

Such adaptable robots may be used for incision - free surgery, says Antoine Cully, a roboticist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study.

Today, the «uncanny valley» phenomenon remains almost as mysterious as when Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori first coined the term in 1970.

Bongard, a roboticist at the University of Vermont, thinks the answer could be yes, and adds that we might respond in kind.

In the Sept. 23 issue of PLOS ONE, a team of computer scientists, roboticists and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: when babies smile, they do so with a purpose — to make the person they interact with smile in returIn the Sept. 23 issue of PLOS ONE, a team of computer scientists, roboticists and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: when babies smile, they do so with a purpose — to make the person they interact with smile in returin return.

Cornell University roboticist Hod Lipson and his Ph.D. student Michael Schmidt developed their system to analyze data from the kinds of mechanics experiments that college students encounter in introductory physics courses: observing the motion of a swinging pendulum or of two weights bouncing on connected springs, for instance.

That is where Georgia Tech roboticist Ronald Arkin comes in.

«Orbital robotics and AI techniques in general can enable future spacecraft to repair satellites, remove space junk, extract resources from asteroids and comets, and so on,» said study co-author Yang Gao, a space roboticist at the University of Surrey in England.

[Updated 11:28 a.m. Feb. 14: «It's a very impressive accomplishment,» said Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Cornell University, who was not involved in the study.

Ayanna Howard, a roboticist at Georgia Tech, was always interested in building robots.

In need of a new limb, a Metal Gear Solid fan is getting some help from the publisher of his favorite series, as well as engineers, roboticists and prosthetics artists.

In Eye Candy, popular indie author Ryan Schneider takes us to Los Angeles of 2047 where a roboticist famous for his books about artificially - intelligent beings finds himself on a blind date with a beautiful robopsychologist.

In an attempt to break the decades - long stalemate, the American military turns to Miguel dos Santos — a brilliant Brazilian roboticist — ... But as Miguel reluctantly carries out his orders, it becomes clear that he has other plans for what remains of humanity.

Ken Goldberg is an artist, roboticist and UC Berkeley Professor with appointments in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Electrical Engineering / Computer Science (EECS), Art Practice, the School of Information, and in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UCSF Medical School.

The resulting book, «The Human Age,» is a splendidly prismatic tour of humans» techno - biological environmental impacts and tinkering, taking readers from an encounter with the Toronto Zoo's iPad - wielding orangutans («ginger - haired tree dancers,» in Ackerman's parlance) to the sterile drawers of DNA from vanishing wildlife at the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project back to the Creative Machines Lab of roboticist Hod Lipson in her home town.

On reading this I went in search of the phrase «the best model of the world is itself», which turns out to be (among others, no doubt) MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks.

In recent years, the benefits and dangers of fully autonomous weapons have been hotly debated by a relatively small community of specialists, including military personnel, scientists, roboticists, ethicists, philosophers, and lawyers.

Aug. 18: In the Guardian, roboticist Prof. Noel Sharkey warns against the development of fully autonomous robots that make their own decisions about lethality and calls for their urgent international regulation.

ICRAC has released a statement endorsed by 272 engineers, computing and artificial intelligence experts, roboticists, and professionals from related disciplines in 37 countries that calls for a ban on the development and deployment of weapon systems that make the decision to apply violent force autonomously, without any human control.