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Researchers at Princeton University, in collaboration with Google, have developed a novel method to enhance the decision-making capabilities of robots. This technique teaches robots to recognize their own uncertainty and seek human assistance when necessary.

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are poised to become a part of everyday life by the 2040s. This prediction comes from Associate Professor Mohit Shivdasani from the department of biomedical engineering at UNSW Sydney.

The face of holiday park services in the Netherlands is changing as visitors at Landal GreenParks now find a robot welcoming them among the staff. Since joining the team in November, Clevon’s delivery robot has supported the parks team by delivering and collecting linen to and from the recreation homes in the holiday park.

Organizations that work with a wide range of industrial robots face the challenge of having to program each robot arm using its unique proprietary software. To address this, RoboDK software allows you to deploy programs on any robot controller. In an interview with Rocking Robots, founder Albert Nubiola compared his ambition to Microsoft’s achievement of creating Windows as an operating system that runs on any PC.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced an expanded strategic collaboration aimed at delivering infrastructure, software, and services to support generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. The collaboration combes NVIDIA’s latest multi-node systems with advanced GPUs, CPUs, and AI software with AWS’s virtualization and security capabilities, Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) interconnect, and UltraCluster scalability. 

Transformational technologies, including AI-augmented software engineering (AIASE), AI coding assistants and platform engineering, will reach mainstream adoption in 2-5 years, according to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Software Engineering, 2023.

Schiphol Airport has introduced robotics into its baggage handling system, aiming to modify the working environment of its employees. This initiative is a part of the airport’s strategy to improve operational efficiency and employee working conditions.

A new kind of artificial seed to sense environmental parameters without impacting on the health of environment is the invention coming from the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Genova, Italy. The soft robot, named Acer i-Seed, is inspired by natural Acer seeds and can monitor the temperature of the soil by becoming luminescent. It is made of a biocompatible and compostable material, and it has been realized with 3D printing technologies. A drone can be used to spread them out in large areas and study the terrain at a distance.

The Dubai GITEX exhibition, recently concluded, showed the growing influence of Chinese robotics and artificial intelligence companies. With over 1,800 startups from more than 100 countries and an impressive array of speakers and investors, the exhibition has become a platform for technological exchange and collaboration. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, 12 Chinese companies were featured in the China Pavilion at Expand North Star, the world’s largest startup exhibition.

ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a six metre-high and sixty-five-metre-long dry-stone wall. The wall is embedded in a digitally planned and autonomously excavated landscape and park.