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The latest in the world of robotics

Robot news has been coming fast and furious this month. One robot won a half-marathon in Beijing, and others captured a ...
In cognitive manufacturing, production is being transformed as humans increasingly work alongside intelligent robots. We are entering a new industrial revolution, the cognitive industrial revolution, ...
The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.
The July/August issue of Offshore Engineer includes an update on patrolling robots. They are increasingly being used for inspection, maintenance and repair, and they are increasingly being operated, ...
The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals. Paleontologists aren’t easily deterred by evolutionary dead ends or a sparse fossil ...
“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human. By Jennifer Szalai When ...
For a half-century, the image of the large, six-axis articulated robot welding car and truck bodies has become fixed in the popular imagination. Robots are used in sectors as diverse as healthcare, ...