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The RoboTurk framework allows people to direct the robot arms in real time with a smartphone and a browser by showing the robot how to carry out tasks like picking up objects, said Ajay Mandlekar.

New method helps robots to learn tasks from people

Scientists are testing two frameworks that could make it faster and easier to teach robot arms.

28 Oct 2018 12:22 PM GMT

$The movie considers laws for robots first imagined by Isaac Asimov in his 1942 short story \Runaround,\ which states that machines must not harm humans. (Representational image/ Photo: Pixabay)$ Technology

Robots to make robots at ABB's new $150 million factory in China

China is expanding its robot workforce, as wages for human workers there rise and the country seeks to compete with...

28 Oct 2018 5:22 AM GMT

(Representational image/ Photo credit: Pixabay)

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China robot market growth to slump this year as trade war weighs

Sales of industrial robots in China will grow this year at only about a third of last year.

18 Oct 2018 10:06 AM GMT

Joe Allnutt, lead roboticist at British startup company the Small Robot Company, inspects a farming robot named Tom as part of a trial in East Meon, southern England, Friday Nov. 30, 2018. The agri-tech startup company is developing lightweight autonomous machines that can carry out precision seeding, feeding and weeding in the hope of transforming food production. (AP Photo / Kelvin Chan)

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Robots in the field: farms embracing autonomous technology

Tom's creator, the Small Robot Company, is part of a wave of "agri-tech" startups working to transform production in a...

30 Nov 2018 2:11 PM GMT

Analysts say there is an obvious link to direct tariffs on industrial machinery and robot parts.

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Scientists make robots more expressive

The researchers have now found a system to make the second-generation Affetto more expressive.

18 Nov 2018 9:53 AM GMT

$Hanson, 49, is perhaps best known as the creator of Sophia, a talk show-going robot partly modelled on Audrey Hepburn that he calls his \masterpiece.\$ Technology