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Chess Robot Breaks 7-year-old Opponent’s Finger at Moscow Tournament

Jul 28, 2022 | Featured, Robots

A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of its seven-year-old opponent and broke it during last week’s Moscow Chess Open tournament, Russian media reported Monday. “The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergei Lazarev, president of the Moscow...

Robots Not Done Reshaping Warehouses

Jul 21, 2022 | Industrial Automation, Industry 4.0, Robots

When Digit spends an afternoon unloading boxes from a tractor-trailer in 100-plus-degree heat, co-workers never hear a complaint. Digit, a blue-and-white humanoid robot, was designed to handle the tough, menial and dangerous tasks at warehouses. The robot’s movements,...

Robots Learn Household Tasks by Watching Humans

Jul 21, 2022 | Robots

The robot watched as Shikhar Bahl opened the refrigerator door. It recorded his movements, the swing of the door, the location of the fridge and more, analyzing this data and readying itself to mimic what Bahl had done. It failed at first, missing the handle...

New E-Skin Lets Robots ‘See’ More Color Than Human Vision

Jul 14, 2022 | Robots

One day, all robots might be able to see in technicolor—but not through their eyes. Instead, they’ll be able to see through their skin. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, a team of researchers at the...

Lunar Robots Test Their Skills On Italy’s Etna Volcano

Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space

With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 (LRU1) robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy’s Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR’s famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a team of eye-catching robots designed by Germany’s...

Robots Debut As Care Assistants In Minnesota Nursing Home

Jul 7, 2022 | Healthcare, Robots

Pepper the robot is programmed with hundreds of jokes, and if you don’t believe it, just ask her. The residents of the Estates nursing home in Roseville sure did as the robot made its national debut as a personal care assistant. “Do you want to hear more...