Jan Scheuermann, who lost control of her limbs in 2003, was able to make complex hand movements using the robot arm. She successfully picked up and moved a variety of objects, from a tiny cube to ...

An undamaged walking robot, for example, could use the algorithm to figure out how to traverse difficult terrain. But these are secondary options. “I think engineers are very good at their jobs.

This is Gunkel's main argument: the problem with those 'quasi-other' robots is not them, it's us. A third way. Gunkel himself has trodden this path before, notably in his 2018 book, Robot Rights ...

Robot Law, edited by Calo, Froomkin, and University of Ottawa professor Ian Kerr, is a collection of academic legal papers, largely drawn from the first four annual We Robot conferences, which ...

References [1] From exploration to control: Learning object manipulation skills through novelty search and local adaptation. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2021). [2] Reward tampering and ...

The team plans to present its first application of the algorithm — an intent-controlled, robot-powered arm — at the conference Neuroscience 2015 in Chicago next week. Learn Something New Every Day ...

3. Peak Arms. In 2004, French troops arrived in Cote d’Ivoire to help police a cease-fire in the country’s simmering civil war. Not expecting trouble, they left their air defenses at home.

The world's first humanoid robot boxing competition has packed a punch that is sure to hit hard in the fast-growing sector's development, providing a testing ground for technicians to further ...