The robotics researcher who has fallen in love with his football - playing robot?
«Orbital debris is a serious risk to spacecraft, including the International Space Station,» said Aaron Parness, a JPL
robotics researcher who is the principal investigator for the grippers.
Not exact matches
Even though «there is no contract, no agreement,» says Frank Dellaert, a
robotics and computer - vision
researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,
who has received two grants of about $ 40,000 from Microsoft, «it is in my own self - interest to use the money [as proposed] to build that relationship up.»
«If there's an earthquake, we could readily adapt our UAVs to serve as flying cellular towers to restore communications and help look for survivors,» says Lora Weiss, a Georgia Tech
researcher who heads up a
robotics and unmanned systems lab.
In a study of national data on colon surgery, Johns Hopkins
researchers found that while patients
who undergo either minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery or the high - tech
robotic approach have similar outcomes,
robotic surgery is significantly more expensive.
«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.
«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».
«One of the final frontiers of
robotics is getting robots to understand the complex structure of the home environment so they can perform useful tasks,» says
robotics researcher Siddhartha Srinivasa,
who founded and runs the Carnegie Mellon lab that birthed HERB.
NIH - funded
researchers taught 2 patients
who were paralyzed by stroke — a 58 - year - old woman and a 66 - year - old man — to mentally control a
robotic limb.
The work is supported by a $ 1 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will be led by Brown's Humanity - Centered
Robotics Initiative (HCRI), a group of computer and social science
researchers who explore the societal opportunities and challenges presented by
robotics.