Category: IEEE Spectrum Robotics
NASA Extends Mars Helicopter Mission, Will Scout for Perseverance Rover
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has been doing an amazing job flying on Mars. Over the last several weeks it has far surpassed its original goal of proving that flight on … Read More
These Might Be the Fastest (and Most Efficient) AI Systems Around
The machine learning industry’s efforts to measure itself using a standard yardstick has reached a milestone. Forgive the pun, but that’s actually what’s happened with the release of MLPerf Inference … Read More
Ingenuity’s Chief Pilot Explains How to Fly a Helicopter on Mars
On April 11, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity will take to the skies of Mars for the first time. It will do so fully autonomously, out of necessity—the time delay between … Read More
DARPA Prepares for the Subterranean Challenge Final
The DARPA Subterranean Challenge Final Event is scheduled to take place at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky, from September 21 to 23. We’ve followed SubT teams as they’ve … Read More
Are Digital Humans the Next Step in Human-Computer Interaction?
In the fictional worlds of film and TV, artificial intelligence has been depicted as so advanced that it is indistinguishable from humans. But what if we’re actually getting closer to … Read More
Bipedal Robots Are Learning To Move With Arms as Well as Legs
Most humans are bipeds, but even the best of us are really only bipeds until things get tricky. While our legs may be our primary mobility system, there are lots … Read More
To Learn To Deal With Uncertainty, This AI Plays Pong
AI is endowing robots, autonomous vehicles and countless of other forms of tech with new abilities and levels of self-sufficiency. Yet these models faithfully “make decisions” based on whatever data … Read More
Visible Touch: How Cameras Can Help Robots Feel
The dawn of the robot revolution is already here, and it is not the dystopian nightmare we imagined. Instead, it comes in the form of social robots: Autonomous robots in homes … Read More
Meet Catfish Charlie, the CIA’s Robotic Spy
Photo: CIA Museum CIA roboticists designed Catfish Charlie to take water samples undetected. Why they wanted a spy fish for such a purpose remains classified. In 1961, Tom Rogers of … Read More
Hyundai Motor Group Introduces Two New Robots
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a couple of new robots from Hyundai Motor Group. This is a couple more robots than I think I’ve seen from Hyundai Motor … Read More
Meet Blueswarm, a Smart School of Robotic Fish
Anyone who’s seen an undersea nature documentary has marveled at the complex choreography that schooling fish display, a darting, synchronized ballet with a cast of thousands. Those instinctive movements have inspired … Read More
