Not yet, anyway. This video took a lot of work: The makers talk (in an IEEE Spectrum interview) about how they went about making it: How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics’ VP of Engineering, tells us where Atlas got its moves from …Strictly speaking, the stuff going on in […]
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Restlessly Questioning the Effect of a Robotic Cat
Questions arise in and about the study “Questioning the Effect of a Robotic Cat in the Treatment of Terminal Restlessness,” by Jun Kako, Kohei Kajiwara, Masamitsu Kobayashi, Yasufumi Oosono, and Hiroko Noto, Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 23, no. 2, 2020, p. 158. The authors, at Hiroshima University and Kyushu University, Japan, explain: First, it […]
Cyborg botany [study]
Over several million years, Venus Flytraps have been triggered to snap shut by flies. A new research project has shown they can also be triggered by a mouse – viz. a computer mouse [As shown in the video above]. The many and varied possibilities of creating ‘Cyborg Plants’ has been investigated by Harpreet Sareen of […]
Recent progress in robotic topiary
The ever expanding list of professional activities that are in imminent danger of replacement by AI and/or robots has a new addition – Topiarists. A topiary-bot is currently under test at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, as part of the the university’s TrimBot2020 project. Which is seeking to “advance the robotics and computer vision technology needed […]