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Missouri S&T to Develop Robotic Tools for Inspection and Maintenance of Bridges

Your commute to work may be smoother in the future, thanks to new federally funded research at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

7 Dec 2016

Public’s Acceptance of Automated Vehicles Changes with More Realistic Driving Scenario

As interest in the development of automated cars increases, public and media attention has focused on the speculative benefit of having an abundance of in-vehicle work and leisure time that would otherwise be spent driving.

7 Dec 2016

Researchers Build Baby Robots to Understand Development of Infant Brain and Body

To understand the world, human beings fabricate and experiment. To understand ourselves and how we come to be the way we are, researchers are currently building baby robots with mechanisms that model aspects of the infant brain and body.

6 Dec 2016

New Artificial Intelligence Software Could Help Police Catch Child Abusers

iCOP toolkit could help police catch abusers early

2 Dec 2016

Researchers 3D Print Ready-to-Fly Drone with Embedded Electronics Using Aerospace-Grade Material

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have 3D printed a ready-to-fly drone with embedded electronics using aerospace-grade material.

1 Dec 2016

iCub Humanoid Robot Helps Solve Mystery of How Young Children Learn New Words

Children learn new words using the same method as robots according to psychologists.

29 Nov 2016

Engineering Students Develop LARA Concierge Robot for UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center

Internationally renowned UCLA professor of engineering Dennis Hong gets excited about robots — downright giddy at times.

18 Nov 2016

New AI-Based Computational Method Could Automatically Associate Images with Sounds

The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer vision system that can train itself isn't as simple.

16 Nov 2016

Researchers Develop Persistent Interactive Personality that Can Translate Variables into Simple Narratives

People can find a hundred ways to say the same thing, which poses a challenge to robots that are expected to keep up their end of conversations.

14 Nov 2016

New Project Aims to Make Robots Persistently Autonomous

“I’m sorry, Dave. You told me to take out the trash, but there’s a big box blocking the door to the trash chute.” If the speaker were a human child, you might just say, “So go back and move the box.”

11 Nov 2016