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Video Friday: When Two Robots Become Oneโญ7
Reconfigurable robots winch together, Microducks sing spontaneously when meeting, plus more robotics advances are featured in this week's Video Friday.
AI Can Act Exactly Like a Human, But We Still Don't Think It'sโญ9
People judge even the most responsive AI as less conscious than the least responsive human, new LMU research finds, though "awareness" ratings differ.
Q&A: NASA's Perseverance Rover Smashes Mars Driving Distance Recordโญ9
NASA's Perseverance rover has broken Mars driving records, surpassing Opportunity's 45-kilometer total. This Q&A explores how autonomous navigation and distance...
Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Playful Twistโญ7
A humanoid robot in a robe free-falls into a ball pit in a playful decommissioning stunt by Devanthro, raising lighthearted questions about robot retirement.
This Disembodied Robotic Hand Is All the Robot You Needโญ9
A disembodied robotic hand that walks on its fingers shows how multipurpose body parts could lead to lighter, cheaper, more flexible robot designs.
HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motionโญ8
HiPHI introduces a large-scale benchmark dataset of high-precision human motion and synchronized object interactions for training and evaluating humanoid robot ...
Video Friday: Robotic Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, andโญ8
This week's Video Friday features a self-righting robotic albatross, a self-assembling modular arm for disaster recovery, and drones aiding flood relief in Nepa...
Atlas Robot's New Hand May Outperform Human-Like Designsโญ8
Boston Dynamics' new three-fingered Atlas robot hand with 13 degrees of freedom challenges human-like design, raising questions about the future of robotic mani...
Light-Powered AI Detects Deepfakes With Nearly 98% Accuracyโญ10
UCLA's optical-neural processor uses light to detect deepfake videos with nearly 98% accuracy, screening 15+ streams at once for faster, energy-efficient AI def...
A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kempโญ9
Charlie Kemp, CTO of Hello Robot, builds assistive Stretch robots to help people live more independently, in this Day in the Life of a Roboticist profile.