#285: On Storytelling Robots for Children, with Hae Won Park
dam-prod.media.mit.edu In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Hae Won Park, a Research Scientist in the Personal Robot...
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Robots guarded Buddha’s relics in a legend of ancient India
Two small figures guard the table holding the Buddha’s relics. Are they spearmen, or robots? British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA...
Giving robots a better feel for object manipulation
A new “particle simulator” developed by MIT researchers improves robots’ abilities to mold materials into simulated targ...
Boston Dynamics buys a better brain for its robots
The world’s most agile robots are about to get a lot smarter thanks to the purchase of a startup focused on computer vis...
A rubber computer eliminates the last hard components from soft robots
The toggle gripper holding a screwdriver. Credit: Daniel Preston / Harvard UniversityBy Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, Harvar...
Robots won’t make it into our houses until they get common sense
AI’s big advances have so far relied on algorithms that train on huge piles of data. If robots are going to work in the...
Faster robots demoralize co-workers
(Cornell University) A Cornell University-led team has found that when robots are beating humans in contests for cash pr...
Robots are becoming classroom tutors. But will they make the grade?
Educational robots show promise for helping kids in the classroom or at home, but researchers are still figuring out how...
Gummy-like robots that could help prevent disease
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have developed microscopic, hydrogel-based muscles that can m...
