EurekAlert July 27, 2020 A team of researchers in the US (US Army, University of Southern California) supported by the Army Next Generation Combat Vehicle Army Modernization Priority and the Army Priority Research Area for Autonomy has developed the Joint Understanding and Dialogue Interface (JUDI) which enables bi-directional conversational interactions between soldiers and autonomous systems through bidirectional speech and dialogue in tactical operations. The technology gives the robot the ability to ask for clarification or provide status updates as tasks are completed. The dialogue processing is based on a statistical classification method. JUDI is designed for tasks that require reasoning […]
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Penn Engineering’s New Scavenger Technology Allows Robots to ‘Eat’ Metal for Energy
University of Pennsylvania, April 6, 2020 The metal-air scavenger developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania works like a battery by providing power by repeatedly breaking and forming a series of chemical bonds and a harvester as the power is supplied by energy in the chemical bonds in metal and air surrounding the metal-air scavenger. They showed that a range of hydrogel electrolyte compositions can be combined with air cathodes to extract 159, 87, and 179 mAh/cm2 capacities from aluminum, zinc, and steel surfaces at up to 130, 81, and 25 mW/cm2 power densities, which exceed the power density […]
Welcome to robot university (only robots need apply)
MIT Technology Review November 7, 2019 Researchers at UC Berkeley are creating RoboNet, a database similar to the ImageNet created by Princeton University, consisting of annotated video data of robots in action. The trick is to have countless hours of video to learn from. They start by recording the way a robot interacts with, say, a brush to move it across a surface. Then they take countless hours of video to learn from many more videos of its motion and use the data to train a neural network on how best to perform the action. Once a robot has mastered […]
How to mass produce cell-sized robots
MIT News October 23, 2018 Researchers at MIT developed a method for controlling the natural fracturing process of atomically-thin, brittle materials, directing the fracture lines so that they produce miniscule pockets of a predictable size and shape. Embedded inside these pockets are electronic circuits and materials that can collect, record, and output data. The system uses graphene, which forms the outer structure of the tiny syncells. Tiny dots of a polymer material, containing the electronics for the devices, are deposited by an inkjet printer. Syncells has potential for use in industrial or biomedical monitoring… read more. Video TECHNICAL ARTICLE