Phys.org April 3, 2018 Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology developed HoneyBot designed to lure in digital troublemakers and trick the bad actors into giving up valuable information to cybersecurity professionals. The gadget can be monitored and controlled through the internet. But unlike other remote-controlled robots, the HoneyBot’s special ability is tricking its operators into thinking it is performing one task, when it is doing something completely different. Rather than allowing the hacker to then run amok in the physical world, the robot could be designed to follow certain commands deemed harmless but stopping short of doing anything dangerous…read more.
Tag Archives: Robotics
Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
Quanta Magazine February 14, 2018 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are experimenting with flapping robots called “smarticles” which can’t move on their own. But when a lot of these objects are put together they start to work as a unit. Researchers are learning how to control these systems so that when the swarm comes together, its members can carry out complex behaviors without any centralized direction. Other efforts in the field of self-organizing robots include “droplet-size robots” being developed at the University of Colorado, “Kilobot swarms” at Harvard University, and “swarmanoids” out of a pioneering lab in Belgium… […]
Researchers help robots think and plan in the abstract
Eurekalert February 8, 2018 A team of researchers in the US (Brown University, MIT) there has been less progress in perceptual abstraction, which has to do with helping a robot make sense of its pixelated surroundings. They gave a robot called Ana a set of high-level motor skills for manipulating the objects in a room. Once Ana was armed with her learned abstract representation, the researchers asked her to do something that required some planning which Ana executed. According to the researchers, their research provides an important theoretical building block for applying artificial intelligence to robotics… read more. Video Open […]