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🦾 Humans sense a collaborating robot as part of their 'extended' body
#robots

Humans sense a collaborating robot as part of their 'extended' body
Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their body schema, particularly when it comes to carrying out a task together, like slicing a bar of soap.

See, I got this robot army see, and if you don't give me a trillion dollars then someone who isn't me might be in charge of it see, and I dunno what damage they might do. Only way to make sure my robot army is safe, see, is to give me a trillion dollars.
God knows a robot army would be a terrible thing if someone other than me was in control of it, so best give me a trillion dollars so I can make sure the robot army only does what I want.
I won't even spend it! Who would spend a trillion dollars? I'll just use it to keep control of my robot army and so long as I get my trillion dollars everyone will be safe.
#elonMusk #robotArmy

Today's testing...
#microbit #robot #rover

🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
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Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.

Replace #AI with #Robot #Walrus and a lot of things become more clear... #Savagechickens

Human Meme vs. AI Meme
#Ai #human #robot #thinking #cats

🐘 MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
#robotics #machines

MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
The elephant trunk exemplifies a natural gripper where structure, actuation, and sensing are seamlessly integrated. Inspired by the distal morphology of the African elephant trunk, we present MELEGROS, a Monolithic ELEphant-inspired GRipper with Optical Sensors, emphasizing sensing as an intrinsic, co-fabricated capability. Unlike multi-material or tendon-based approaches, MELEGROS directly integrates six optical waveguide sensors and five pneumatic chambers into a pneumatically actuated lattic…