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... 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 assi... 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... 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... 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 Superi... 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 conduct... 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 r... 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... 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... 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... 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-i... 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 activi... Read more
Researchers are programming robots to communicate with people using human-like body language and cues, an important step toward bringing robots into homes. Researchers at the Unive... Read more
More and more, they are also beginning to imitate — and look like — humans. And they are beginning to perform tasks as humans do, too. On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into... Read more
