The world’s largest robotics conference, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, came to London last week, where a dizzying array of cutting-edge robots were on display, ...
Commercial air travel is something of a necessary evil. Want to spend Christmas with your parents on the opposite coast? You’ll need to spend hours in line at the airport first. Or maybe visiting the ...
In the world of robot communication, it seems actions speak louder than words. Scientists in the UK have discovered that by getting robot avatars to “talk with their hands,” we understand them as well ...
Using a robotic avatar to go places a human body can't is the stuff of sci-fi dreams. That's why Japanese airline ANA is sponsoring the Avatar XPrize. "So the goal of the Avatar Xprize is a contest ...
It’s an ambitious challenge that will likely fall short of our expectations It’s an ambitious challenge that will likely fall short of our expectations is a senior reporter who has covered AI, ...
A $10 million award is up for grabs from XPRIZE, at the end of a four-year global competition that aims to see the creation of the world’s first real-life, robotic avatars. The announcement, made by ...