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The humanoid robot that can do a backflip
Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Video Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, is now able to perform backflips. From the section Technology Go to next video:...
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Lab-grown synthetic nanobots may officially end antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem facing humanity. Bacterial infections, once treatable with a simple dose of antibiotics, now sicken and even kill patients. And today’s physicians are left...
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Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
Stanford researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia from a chest x-ray better than a human radiologist can. And it learned how to do so in just about a month....
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Cobot: Collaborative Robot Central
Human workers give manufacturers flexibility, allowing companies to reap the benefits of automation while preserving the ability to fill special orders. The trick is to automate with the human, not...
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How the Robot Revolution Could Create 21 Million Jobs
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Stop Laughing at Those Clumsy Humanoid Robots
The humanoid robot, built like a linebacker with an oversized head, tiptoes on two feet through the dirt. It’s free of any wires. It’s unleashed—but it’s now wavering. It starts veering right, tilting...
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Italian doctor says world's first human head transplant 'imminent'
A controversial Italian doctor announced Friday that the world’s first human head transplant was "imminent" and that it would take place in China because his efforts to get backing for the project were...
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Way of the future: A new church worships an AI god
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google and Uber executive currently at the center of a bombshell lawsuit filed by Waymo, says he’s serious about starting a religion centered around super-smart...
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ANDROIDS through the eye of a 19th century wooden camera
by Articles November 19, 2017 Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer have fused their scientific and photographic interests in robots and traveled the world since 2016 to visit roboticists to discuss and...
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How Robots Will Win Your Trust
What images come to mind when you think of robots? The lifelike replicas of Blade Runner? A favorite video game character or perhaps Aldebaran and SoftBank's quirky robot named Pepper? Although...
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There's a $100 million plan to make a synthetic spinal cord to end paralysis
In Brief Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT's Center for Extreme Bionics want to change what it means to be disabled. As part of a $100 million, five-year project, the researchers are working on...
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Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work
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Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they're attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–with plans...
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The Origin Story of ROS, the Linux of Robotics
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Ten years ago, while struggling to bring the vision of the...
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Wizards of ROS: Willow Garage and the Making of the Robot Operating System
Ten years ago today, an engineer at Silicon Valley robotics lab Willow Garage published a new code repository on SourceForge. The repository, made publicly available to anyone in the world who wanted...
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My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
Two weeks ago, I did something really stupid. I tweeted that Naomi Wu, @realsexycyborg, was not who she claimed to be, pointed to a conspiracy theory on that subject on Reddit. That would be wrong in...
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For the first time, a robot passed a medical licensing exam
In Brief Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country's medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to...
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Toyota’s latest humanoid robot can mimic your movements
Toyota has revealed its third generation humanoid robot, the T-HR3, which can be controlled and synchronized with the operator’s movements. The user wears data gloves and an HTC Vive VR headset that’s...
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You can virtually inhabit Toyota’s new humanoid robot
Toyota has a new, third-generation humanoid robot bears the charming name “T-HR3” and is designed to be a helpful and safe assistant to humans. It also features a so-called “master maneuvering...
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DARPA Seeking AI That Learns All the Time
Earlier this month a self-driving shuttle in Las Vegas patiently waited as a delivery truck backed up, then backed up some more, then backed right into it. Inconveniently for the roboshuttle’s...
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