An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

A new competition has been announced to develop real-life Avatars, in the hope of spurring development of advanced robots in the near future. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign ...

XPrize contests are nothing if not examples of big picture thinking. Following multi-million dollar competitions to put private spacecraft on the moon, reimagine C02 and tackle illiteracy in the ...

Elon may be talking about robots, but commercialization of next-gen robotic systems that will actually find a foothold in the real world is closer than many would have expected just a few years ago.

COMPETITION IS HELPING THEM ALG ONTHE WAY. DOUG: INSIDE THIS B ATLA NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, STUDENTS AND THEIR PROFESSORS ARE FINE-TUNING A ROBOT THEY BUILT AND AFFECTIONATELY NAMED HUSK.EY THE TEAM ...

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