One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

Post Views: 107 A defining feature of this metaverse will be creating a feeling of presence in the virtual world. Presence could mean simply interacting with other avatars and feeling like you are immersed in a foreign landscape. Or, it could even involve engineering some sort of haptic feedback for users when they touch or…

This bird-legged quadcopter can easily perch in the treetops

This bird-legged quadcopter can easily perch in the treetops

Post Views: 108 The research, published in Science Robotics on Wednesday, details the development of the bot, which requires minimal computational power from its control board. This allows it to be incorporated in the future in other projects without demanding a lot of computational space, leaving room for other objectives like observation, recording, other movements,…

Flying, amphibious drones may help us fight wildfires in a warming world

Post Views: 105 In the plains of central Spain, just about 90 minutes south of Madrid, a firefighting robot is taking flight. With two engines, a smooth underbelly, and a construction straight out of World War II’s Atlantic theater, the Singular Aircraft Flyox is a drone designed as an aerial workhorse on land and water….

Watch these rare ocean creatures caught on candid robot camera

Post Views: 157 With the rover’s powerful HD cameras and LED lights, MBARI researchers can detect and record wildlife that have hardly ever been glimpsed upon by human eyes. Take the giant phantom jelly, for example. First described in 1910 and identified in the 1960s, the species has been documented in six of the world’s…

This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own

This tiny AI-powered robot is learning to explore the ocean on its own

Post Views: 148 “We’re imagining an approach for global ocean exploration where you take swarms of smaller robots of various types and populate the ocean with them for tracking, for climate change, for understanding the physics of the ocean,” says John O. Dabiri, a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at the California Institute of…

The most compelling military tech stories from the land, air, and sea this year

The most compelling military tech stories from the land, air, and sea this year

Post Views: 128 Microsoft inked an enormous, multi-billion-dollar deal to deliver high-tech augmented reality goggles for the US Army. The gadget is based on Microsoft’s HoloLens, although the Army refers to it as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS. The devices are a head-up display with night-vision tech and more, and while they promise…

Why the Air Force wants to put lidar on robot dogs

Why the Air Force wants to put lidar on robot dogs

Post Views: 116 As he speaks, the video highlights the interior of a garage. The laser-constructed vision is surreal, almost unearthly, with objects visible not as whole forms but instead reflected lines adjacent to each other in space. The imaging tool is lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging, and while the results are…