Bricklaying robots can now build tennis-court-sized walls in 4 hours by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB

The extraordinary Hadrian X bricklaying robot rocks up to a building site looking like a regular truck, then extends a 32-m (105-ft) boom arm and starts precisely laying up to 300 large masonry blocks an hour. It’s pretty remarkable to watch.We’ve had our eye on this Australian bot since it was an excavator-mounted prototype back

ByHackTechOctober 18, 20230Comments

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Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD Internal Emails Show by lysp

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ByHackTechSeptember 29, 20230Comments

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Muscles for soft robots: Hydrogel actuators with improved performance by PaulHoule

Material becomes a gripper: triggered by light, the hydrogel releases water and contracts. In the process, it encloses a small object, which it can also release again. Credit: Margarethe Hauck Robots made of metal and other solid materials are already widely used in industry. But they are too rigid and cumbersome for fine-motor activities and

ByHackTechSeptember 9, 20230Comments

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Robots from ICRA 2023 by hndamien

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ByHackTechJune 13, 20231Comment

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Should We Tax Robots? by blazespin

What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them would give firms incentive to help retain workers, while also compensating for a dropoff in payroll

ByHackTechMay 14, 20230Comments

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Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean by robobenjie

I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until we were impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so you can get a head start making robots that live

ByHackTechMarch 22, 20230Comments

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Uber Eats will use sidewalk robots to make food deliveries in Miami (USA) by Tozen

Uber is expanding its use of autonomous delivery vehicles with the announcement that it will soon deploy sidewalk robots developed in Miami, Florida. The six-wheeled delivery robots will come from Cartken, an Oakland-based AI company founded by a team of ex-Google engineers known mostly for deploying its vehicles on college campuses. The robots will deliver…

ByHackTechDecember 15, 20220Comments

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The Crazy Robot’s Rebellion (2011) by Tomte

Meet Linda: Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Now, rank these possible descriptions of Linda by how likely they are: Linda is a teacher in elementary school.…

ByHackTechMay 16, 20220Comments

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Should Robots Have Standing? The Moral and Legal Status of Social Robots by rntn

In a recent proposal issued by the European Parliament, it was suggested that robots might need to be considered “electronic persons” for the purposes of social and legal integration. The very idea sparked controversy, and it has been met with both enthusiasm and resistance. Underlying this disagreement, … In a recent proposal issued by the…

ByHackTechApril 21, 20220Comments

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