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Lowe's, Fellow Robots Launch New Autonomous Retail Service Robot to Improve Shopping Experience

This fall, Lowe's will introduce LoweBot, a NAVii™ autonomous retail service robot by Fellow Robots, in 11 Lowe's stores throughout the San Francisco Bay area.

31 Aug 2016

Kimera’s Nigel Artificial General Intelligence Technology First to Learn Common Sense Through Observation

Kimera Systems Inc. today announced its Nigel™ artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology became the first commercially deployable artificial intelligence technology to observe user behavior, comprehend context, and derive a common sense set of actions to apply under specific circumstances.

25 Aug 2016

Majority of Users Prefer Expressive Robots than More Efficient, Less Error Prone Ones

Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests.

22 Aug 2016

Ben-Gurion University Researchers Develop Single Actuator Wave-like Robot

Dr. David Zarrouk, a senior lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), has developed the first Single Actuator Wave-like Robot (SAW) capable of producing a pure wave motion with the help of a single motor.

4 Aug 2016

New UK-RAS Network White Paper Highlights Biomimetic Mobility of Robots in Space

Autonomous robots capable of walking, swimming and climbing, will replicate insects, birds, animals and even humans on future missions of space exploration within decades, according to a new UK-RAS Network white paper led by Professor Yang Gao, Head of STAR Lab at the University of Surrey.

25 Jul 2016

Adaptive Contrast Adjustment of Lighting Could be Used for Various Robotic, Human-Interaction Applications

Vision-based face detection and recognition is one of the most rapidly growing research areas in computer vision and robotics and is widely used in several human related applications. However, vision-based face detection and recognition has been shown to be effective only under normal illumination conditions.

20 Jul 2016

Researchers Use Sea Slug Tissues, 3D Printed Components to Construct Biohybrid Robots

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build "biohybrid" robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach.

19 Jul 2016

New Study Results Could Help Designers Create Amphibious Robots with Better Mobility across Mud

When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized. That’s one conclusion from a new study of African mudskipper fish and a robot modeled on the animal.

8 Jul 2016

Researchers Build Robotic Mimic of Stingray, Powered and Guided by Light-Sensitive Rat Heart Cells

Researchers have created a robotic mimic of a stingray that's powered and guided by light-sensitive rat heart cells. The work exhibits a new method for building bio-inspired robots by means of tissue engineering.

8 Jul 2016

Experts Use Robot, Mathematical Models to Explore Evolutionary Leap

Could a tail have allowed ancient vertebrates to make the transition from water to land?

8 Jul 2016

Biomimetic Robotics News

Lowe's, Fellow Robots Launch New Autonomous Retail Service Robot to Improve Shopping Experience

Kimera’s Nigel Artificial General Intelligence Technology First to Learn Common Sense Through Observation

Majority of Users Prefer Expressive Robots than More Efficient, Less Error Prone Ones

Ben-Gurion University Researchers Develop Single Actuator Wave-like Robot

New UK-RAS Network White Paper Highlights Biomimetic Mobility of Robots in Space

Adaptive Contrast Adjustment of Lighting Could be Used for Various Robotic, Human-Interaction Applications

Researchers Use Sea Slug Tissues, 3D Printed Components to Construct Biohybrid Robots

New Study Results Could Help Designers Create Amphibious Robots with Better Mobility across Mud

Researchers Build Robotic Mimic of Stingray, Powered and Guided by Light-Sensitive Rat Heart Cells

Experts Use Robot, Mathematical Models to Explore Evolutionary Leap

Deep Learning Elevates the Precision of Brain Surgery

Machine Learning Improves Aerosol Prediction Accuracy

Proto-DS: Advanced AI for Food Testing and Quality Control

Machine Learning Predicts Flight Efficiency Accurately

Robots Outperform Humans in Chemistry Research

Robots and Renewable Energy: Hydropower Inspections

Robots and Renewable Energy: Wind Farm Monitoring

Robots and Renewable Energy: Solar Plant Security

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