Abstract: Existing approaches often operate poorly in noisy or occluded conditions, rely on cloud-based inference subject to latency and privacy issues, and do not take emotional context into ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

Abstract: To enhance the social navigation performance of mobile robots in crowded environments, we propose a novel framework—Prediction and Fuzzy Timed Elastic Band (PF-TEB) for robot social ...

Russia unveiled a humanoid robot, dubbed AIdol, during a flashy showcase in Moscow — only for it to fall on its face, both figuratively and literally. Footage of the event, which went viral this week, ...

Effective task allocation has become a critical challenge for multi-robot systems operating in dynamic environments like search and rescue. Traditional methods, often based on static data and ...

The robots mimic the movements and body temperature of real rabbits, a favored prey of pythons. The project is funded by the South Florida Water Management District and builds upon previous research ...

The IEEE Humanoid Study Group published the final version of its findings earlier this week. The mission was to establish a framework for developing standards for ...

The exotic pet trade can be blamed for the invasion of the Burmese python in the United States. ©Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is native to Southeast Asia but ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. A ...

Florida officials deploy robot rabbits to control the invasive Burmese python population. Scientists from the South Florida Water Management District and the University of Florida have teamed up to ...