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7 ‘secret’ systems that make humanoid robots think, walk and work like humans

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...
Forbes

The Other F Word: How Robot Developers Can Do Better By Embracing Failure

Co-founder & CEO at InOrbit, a leading data management platform for autonomous robots, and co-founder of Robot Operations Group. Modern robots are awesome, but they’re also infamous for getting into ...
Hackaday

Robot: You Keep Using That Word But It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...
Inc

1 Word Explains Why Your Robot Co-Worker Looks Kind of Human: Trust

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...
Wall Street Journal

On the 100th Anniversary of ‘Robot,’ They’re Finally Taking Over

On Jan. 25, 1921, Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.”—short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”—premiered in Prague. It was a sensation. Within two years it had been translated into 30 languages, including ...
ZDNet

Words you've longed to hear: 'Come and be touched by a robot'

I was thinking of going to CES this year. But then I read the immortal words of Consumer Technology Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "We will all be taking ...