More interesting things in robotics this week

Embark will get about $614 million in cash proceeds, which it said will fund the company through 2024.

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Chinese autonomous vehicle pioneer WeRide, which was founded in 2017, has raised more than $600 million in the last five months.

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Hyundai paid about $880 million to acquire the controlling stake from Softbank in December 2020, valuing Boston Dynamics at $1.1 billion.

The post Hyundai completes acquisition of Boston Dynamics appeared first on The Robot Report.

Automation has moved from smart manufacturing and logistics to fry cooking and salad tossing.

The post Now Cuisine takes on ghost kitchens and drone deliveries appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Robotics Week series consists of three digital events focused on autonomous mobile robots, cobots, and robotics engineering.

The post WTWH Media launches Robotics Week series of digital events appeared first on The Robot Report.

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Goodbye, bulky components and connectors: A team of scientists has now found a new way to exploit the principles of spiders' joints to create lightweight robots.

When someone bumps their elbow against a wall, they not only feel pain but also might experience bruising. Robots and prosthetic limbs don't have these warning signs, which could lead to further injury. Now, researchers have developed an artificial skin that senses force through ionic signals and also changes color from yellow to a bruise-like purple, providing a visual cue that damage has occurred.

We've seen robots take to the air, dive beneath the waves and perform all sorts of maneuvers on land. Now, researchers are exploring a new frontier: the ground beneath our feet. Taking their cues from plants and animals that have evolved to navigate subterranean spaces, they've developed a fast, controllable soft robot that can burrow through sand.

An algorithm lets machines teach themselves how to recognize landscapes, even amid the changing seasons.

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✍️ Column by Dr. Marianna Ganapini, our Faculty Director. This is part 4 of her Office Hours series. The interviews in this piece were edited for clarity and length. What’s missing in the way Tech Ethics is taught currently? Two experts in this field, Heather von Stackelberg and Mathew Mytka, shared their ideas and experiences […]

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🔬 Research summary by Abhishek Gupta (@atg_abhishek), our Founder, Director, and Principal Researcher. [Original paper by Daniel Schiff, Bogdana Rakova, Aladdin Ayesh, Anat Fanti, Michael Lennon] Overview: As many principles permeate the development of AI to guide it into ethical, safe, and inclusive outcomes, we face a challenge. There is a significant gap in their […]

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🔬 Research summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. [Original paper by Nagla Rizk] Overview: The Middle East and North Africa region could prove an exciting incubator for the positive use of AI, especially given how different countries have prioritized its development. However, the tendency towards economic growth over social service improvement seems to have […]

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