The speedy, slow, controlled, calamitous world of RoboCup
They pause, bring their head up, and swing a leg back to shoot. They extend a foot, miss the ball completely and fall with a thud on the turf.
They pause, bring their head up, and swing a leg back to shoot. They extend a foot, miss the ball completely and fall with a thud on the turf.
Close your eyes and grab an object close to you and it isn’t difficult to figure out what it is. The same can’t be said for robots, which still struggle with manipulating physical objects.
Surgery carried out with the help of robots is already well established, with machines like the Da Vinci Surgical System being used at a number of hospitals in Australia.
Queensland Health is continuing its experimentation with robot assistants, rolling out additional TESA bots to hospitals across the state next month.
A six month trial which pairs a self-driving shuttle bus and two ‘autonomous smart transit hubs’ has launched at Holdfast Bay in Adelaide.
An undersea robot ‘crop duster’ has been put to work on the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to repopulate areas scorched by coral bleaching.
Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul project has been granted accreditation by Australia's national rail regulator to run its autonomous trains without a driver in the cab.
Australia Post is piloting a series of bots to help office staff scrutinise delivery data, and delivery centre workers get sorting machines up and running more quickly.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched an in-app and online chatbot named Ceba.
When robots are made to look more human-like, we become more empathetic towards them. Make them too realistic, however, and those positive feelings quickly turn to revulsion and spark similar reactions to those we would have to seeing a corpse.
Can a friendly humanoid robot help take some of the stress out of air travel? That’s the question being posed by researchers from Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s innovation lab this week in a series of experiments at Sydney International Airport.
When it comes robots, humans are perhaps a little too trusting. In a series of experiments at Georgia Tech that simulated a building fire, people ignored emergency exit signs and followed instructions from a guidance robot -- even after being told the robot was faulty.
A robot dubbed FASTER ,which can screen and evaluate electrochemicals, has been unveiled by CISRO today.
Honda Motor Co. has created a bilingual robot that can communicate in both English and Japanese sign language.