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Robo-Mate helps industrial workers lift heavy loads, reducing spinal injuries
Robo-Mate looks like a superhero accessory, but actually it is a tool designed to help industrial workers.
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Ocado develops robotic hand to pick groceries for customers' orders
A UK-based online grocery retailer is developing a robotic hand that could one day pick fruit and vegetables for customers’ orders.
Five hundred years of robots at the British Science Museum
A new exhibit at London’s Science Museum traces five-hundred years of robotic development, from early clockwork-automation – such as the impressive Silver Swann from 1773- to interactive…
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MEPs demand EU-wide rules on robots and AI
MEPs have called for the adoption of EU-wide rules on how humans and robots interact.
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By Sean Welsh, researcher in robot ethics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand Robots will replace many humans: perhaps most humans in the workplace.
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“Robot cops” will soon be patrolling the streets of Dubai.
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NASA prepares humanoid robots for trip to Mars
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Takeaway: monitoring sea pollution
This robot boat is not a toy… Developed by scientists, it monitors sea pollution.
Dealing with danger: busy geniuses and watchful robots
In this edition of Futuris, we look at wasps, hawks and donkeys – not animals but special robots which can help save people in danger in the Alps.
Takeaway: watchful robots
Obedient wasps, somehow stubborn donkeys, watchfull hawks, surrounded by Alpine peaks… In fact, they are robots developed in the framework of the
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At a warehouse in Bilbao, in northern Spain, a strange robotic ballet is underway.