A Japanese spacecraft has dropped two small rovers onto the surface of an asteroid zooming through space. The unmanned Hayabusa-2 is the first spacecraft to ever successfully place robotic rovers onto an asteroid.
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The Russian android robot called F.e.d.o.r (Fedor) can do the splits and screw in a light bulb, CEO of Android Technics Research and Production Association Alexander Permyakov told TASS recently. Android Technics is the developer of the robot Fedor. The chief executive confirmed that the robot could do the splits to demonstrate its technical capabilities. Moreover, it can stand on one leg, having vertically lifted the other.
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Self-navigating Personal Robot aims to be Home Tech hub
A new robot called Temi combines all the functions of AI smart speakers with a self-navigating robot that will carry out commands and even follow you around the house. Matthew Stock reports.
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This AR Experience lets you Interrogate Hologram Passengers like a Customs Officer The interactive AR documentary Terminal 3 turns viewers into customs officers at an airport terminal, where they interrogate the holograms of people who appear to be Muslim to decide whether they will let them into th
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The days of the great Pacific garbage patch may be numbered. A highly anticipated project to scoop up plastic from the massive pool of ocean debris is poised to launch its first phase from Alameda, Calif., on September 8. The creators of the project, called the Ocean Cleanup, say their system can remove 90 percent of the plastic in the patch by 2040.
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How Drones could change Future of Fighting Wildfires Dangerous conditions in California are forcing some departments to look for alternative ways to combat raging wildfires. The Mendocino Park Fire Department is using drones to go where humans can’t. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined CBSN to
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With the recently published The Forrester WaveTM: Social Listening Platforms, Q3 2018, Forrester offered their perspective into the marketplace. Our view of this market, and our experience with customers, differs from the Forrester perspective in fundamental ways.
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They put even the coolest drones to shame.
Just barely making it under the wire of a year full of bizarre and adorable robots, the fancy animal robot-makers at Festo are back with three new flying robots. An industrial automation company, Festo’s robotic menagerie also includes herring gulls, kangaroos, ants, an elephant’s trunk, and a gripper inspired by the tongue of a chameleon. Festo showed off three new animalistic flying drones at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC last summer, and they can seen beautifully gliding through the air in a video captured by IEEE Spectrum.
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. and one in the U.S. has developed a way to use artificial intelligence to predict how cancer might change and spread in patients. The results are published in Nature Methods.
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