Question: Robots in our city are often in crisis. But the traffic lights in Johannesburg have had a really hard start to the year – everywhere, there are complaints of outages. What has happened?

Industry players including BYD, GAC Group, Chery, NIO, Seres and Xpeng have recently announced forays into the humanoid robot sector. Chery said that since April 2024, it has teamed up with ...

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I began using robot vacuum and mop combinations over six years ago, looking for a way to check some chores off my list without breaking my back or taking away my already-divided attention from my ...

Cofounder and CEO Chris Urmson says that won’t happen again, and come spring Aurora will get on a similar road to commercial success as its Alphabet-backed rival, which he led when it was ...

This article discusses why voltage as well as frequency load shedding may be necessary to prevent major system blackouts. It is the first of two articles on the important subjects of power system ...

The aim is to build a three-dimensional picture of its surroundings and a better understanding of the way road users behave. "We hope these datasets will have lots of applications in future," he said, ...

Inspired by panthers and jerboas, the robot’s carbon-fiber shins improve stiffness by 135%, while cheetah-like shoes boost grip by 200%.

The most agile and fluid robotic movements, such as Boston Dynamics’s impressive demonstrations of robot acrobatics, are typically narrow, pre-programmed sequences. Teaching robots to perform a ...

The idea of automated machines doing work for us has existed for as long as civilization, but it wasn't until 1920 that Czech playwright Karel Čapek coined the word "robot" to describe a humanoid ...

X users, especially sports fans, may be seeing an influx of recent posts accompanied with photos, asking them to "tap, hold and load in 4K." What has been deemed a trend is really just a function ...