A new tool for predicting a person’s movement trajectory may help humans and robots work together in close proximity. In 2018, researchers at MIT and the auto manufacturer BMW were testing w... Read more
Researchers at the University of Sussex, Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have for the first time used game theory to enable robots to assist humans... Read more
Kids learn better with a friend. They’re more enthusiastic and understand more if they dig into a subject with a companion. But what if that companion is artificial? Researchers at the Unive... Read more
System enables people to correct robot mistakes on multi-choice problems Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: usually scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them t... Read more
Technology can help workers in many ways. Romero, Stahre, Wuest, et al., CC BY-ND Thorsten Wuest, West Virginia University; David Romero, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Mo... Read more
Robots carry out their tasks more safely if they are controlled by another technology. This makes them much more suitable for use in the care sector, as revealed by a study conducted at the... Read more
Can a robot help Germany integrate its influx of migrants? A new research project thinks the answer might be yes. More than 1 million refugees reached Germany last year. Children represent a... Read more
A soft actuator using electrically controllable membranes could pave the way for machines that are no danger to humans In interacting with humans, robots must first and foremost be safe. If... Read more
Robots are already becoming widely established in German factories. But how can companies be sure to split the work between people and robots such that human workers don’t lose out on the de... Read more
A new survey finds young people increasingly depressed about their prospects for the future With new artificially intelligent machines appearing every day, young people are worried about whe... Read more
The quick-control system developed by VTT slashes substantially the programming time for industrial robots, enabling the use of automation also in short production runs of single-item produc... Read more
Continuous adaptation makes for more natural interactions between robots and humans in shared tasks A robot’s role in a shared task could be continuously adjusted during the activity, thanks... Read more
