Sep 29, 2022 | Featured, Robots
Barring some exceptions, humans can’t seem to get social robots quite right. The boundary between endearing and uncanny is tricky terrain when it comes to robots that can engage with humans, answer questions, or lend a hand with chores and errands. We know that...
Sep 22, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Robots, Safety
Robotic eyes on autonomous vehicles could improve pedestrian safety, according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Participants played out scenarios in virtual reality (VR) and had to decide whether to cross a road in front of a moving vehicle or not. When that...
Sep 22, 2022 | Australia, Autonomous Vehicles, Robots
Robots are being used to commercially farm more than 405,000 hectares of Australian farmland, with growers seeing them as the answer to workforce shortages. The Bundaberg region, about 400 kilometres north of Brisbane, is known as the fruit bowl capital of...
Sep 22, 2022 | Featured, Robots
It’s long been possible to make extremely small robots, but they usually need some form of direct external control just to operate. Cornell scientists may have solved that problem on a basic level, however. They’ve created microrobots (no...
Sep 1, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space
An Australian space industry expert has said he has concerns about the deployment of potentially threatening technology in space amid competition from Russia and China. Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Space Industry Association of Australia CEO James Brown said...
Aug 24, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space
A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity. MIRA, or “Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant,” will fly to the International Space...
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