Video Friday: Artificial Evolution, Legged Machines, and Delivery Robots in Silicon Valley
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Winograd Schema Challenge Results: AI Common Sense Still a Problem, for Now
A Turing test alternative, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to determine how well AI handles commonsense reasoning
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Genetically Engineered Rat Cells Make This Robot Stingray Swim
This fully controllable robotic ray is powered by a gold skeleton and light-activated cells
Anki to Release Impressive Feature-Packed SDK for Cozmo Robot
Cozmo's SDK offers access to some surprisingly sophisticated features on this little robot
Tesla Autopilot Crash: Why We Should Worry About a Single Death
Elon Musk says we should focus on the thousands of lives that could be saved by robot cars, but ethics is more than math
Walmart and Five Elements Robotics Working on Robotic Shopping Cart
We like the idea of an autonomous shopping cart, but getting it to work will be a challenge
Video Friday: Cloud Robotics, MARLO in the Forest, and Eagle Kills Drone
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Custom Processor Speeds Up Robot Motion Planning by Factor of 1,000
A preprogrammed FPGA can take motion planning from frustrating to instantaneous
Study: You'll Love Your Robot More If You Assemble It Yourself
Doing some of the final assembly of a home robot could make you feel like it works better
PR2 Learns a Trick to Grasp Ungraspable Objects
A short stick can make robots much more effective at grasping objects
Vyo Is a Fascinating and Unique Take on Social Domestic Robots
This social robot for the smart home has a tactile interface and looks like a microscope
Inside an Experimental Robotics Class: A Robot Sketch Artist, a Robot That Plays Dominos, and More
Stanford’s Experimental Robotics class graduates eight very smart robots
How to Build a Moral Robot
If robots are going to drive our cars and play with our kids, we’ll need to teach them right from wrong
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Video Friday: Swarming UAVs, Perching RoboBees, and Skydiving Kamigamis
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
An artificial nervous system could help robots avoid damaging interactions
Video Friday: Whiskered Robot, Haptic Jamming, and Humorous Humanoid
The best robot videos of the week, ICRA edition
Video Friday: MIT Mini Cheetah, Jibo Sound Localization, and BB-8 Meets Mars Rover
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Video Friday: Robot Gets Coffee, Drone in a Box, and Self-Driving Chairs
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Digital Baby Project's Aim: Computers That See Like Humans
A huge study on how humans and computers see objects could inspire better artificial intelligence
AAAI Video Highlights: Drones Navigating Forests and Robot Boat Swarms
We take you through two of the most impressive robot videos submitted to the AAAI Video Competition
Latest Version of Gazebo Simulator Makes It Easier Than Ever to Not Build a Robot
The popular robotics simulator gets a bunch of new features
ROS, the Robot Operating System, Is Growing Faster Than Ever, Celebrates 8 Years
From humanoids to industrial arms to self-driving cars, robots powered by ROS are everywhere
Canny Robot Rocks Out to Audio Programming
Being programmable through headphones could keep Canny relevant for decades
Robot Cars To Join Formula E Racing
Self-driving cars will be the opening act at the 2016-17 season
Researchers Teaching Robots How to Best Reject Orders from Humans
There's no better opportunity to ask, What could possibly go wrong?
Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots
In minutes, you (yes, even you) can design a complex, customized walking robot
Video Friday: Quadcopter With Quadruped, Magnetic Microbots, and Baxter Flips Pancakes
Your weekly injection of steaming hot robot videos
We Need Robots That Are Smart Enough to Ask for Help
Until robots can solve all of our problems, they're going to need to know when (and how) to ask us for help
Open Source Project Proposes Vision-Free Grasping With RFID and Touchscreens
Who needs perception when you can reliably grasp objects blind
Robots Discover How Cooperative Behavior Evolved in Insects
Leafcutter ants and other insects have evolved specialized cooperative behaviors, and now robots have too