WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Researchers examined the idea of using robotic arms for 3D food printing and what it would really take to automate kitchens.

A fascinating proof-of-concept shows how CAD could be done via AI in the future. Today we’ve seen AI tools enter the 3D modeling space with either text-to-3D or image-to-3D solutions. Text or images ...

AI has designed candidate drugs for antibiotic-resistant infections and genetic diseases. But efforts to incorporate AI into the design of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the revolutionary delivery ...

What happens when you let AI create a game app without touching code? The answer exceeded all my expectations.

Abstract: Traditional firefighting methods face significant limitations in terms of rapid response and precise operation for fires on high-rise buildings. This paper introduces a UAV-based fire ...

Lenovo’s AI Workmate Concept pairs a robotic arm with animated eyes, document scanning, and projection, hinting at AI assistants with a physical presence.

Alphabet’s Intrinsic robotics unit moves into Google, linking DeepMind, Gemini, and Cloud to speed physical AI deployments in factories and logistics.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

In virtual reality, participants embodied an avatar whose left forearm was replaced by an autonomous prosthetic arm that flexed toward a target at different movement speeds. When AI powered prosthetic ...

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