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Robots That See The Way We Do

When you look down your street, you may notice that "your eye is drawn to something." This expression is very apt. Humans do not process ...

Your Robot Is Coming To Serve You

Visualize what your first personal or office service robot will look like. What do you imagine? Depending upon your age, you may think of ...

Democratizing robotic intelligence

Where are all the robots? We see robots in factory assembling lines, cleaning our floors, and assisting in surgery. Cars and airplanes are ...

Nice to TeleMeet you

The iRobot Roomba cleaning robots is still the most famous, and probably widespread robot in the world. Roomba is not exactly the robot ...

Why robots make sense for space exploration, and what would humans do…

Is the era of passionate, flesh-and-bones explorers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, all the way down to their modern ...

Afraid of robots?

GEEK is an American print magazine launched in 2006. According to their description, GEEK is “a lifestyle magazine for geeks of every ...

How robots estimate motion in a Mars virtual environment

This video further illustrates how optic flow information can be extracted by a simulated Mars rover moving in a simulated Mars virtual. ...

Inflatable robots

One way in which robots will become more commonplace in our homes and working environments is by making them cheaper than today's. One of ...

Open sourcing AI and robotics

A guest post on the IEEE Spectrum Automation blog by author William Hertling discusses how the open source culture can revolutionize the ...