AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...
Laundry is a complex, multistep chore many of us would happily hand off to a robot: collecting, sorting, loading, unloading, ...
To a robot, it might look like something from a horror film. Parts — a battery, circuit boards and wiring —are arrayed in pieces on a white lab bench. Metallic arms and legs lay inert on nearby ...