Category: Industrial

  • After-work drinking also associated with AI work — ScienceDaily

    After-work drinking also associated with AI work — ScienceDaily

    Employees who frequently interact with artificial intelligence systems are more likely to experience loneliness that can lead to insomnia and increased after-work drinking, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. Researchers conducted four experiments in the U.S., Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia. Findings were consistent across cultures. The research was published online in the…

  • Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

    Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX,…

  • Benchmarking Robots with Dog-Inspired Barkour

    Benchmarking Robots with Dog-Inspired Barkour

    Inspired by dog agility courses, a team of scientists from Google DeepMind has developed a robot agility course to test the abilities of four-legged robots called “Barkour.” Since the 1970s, dogs have been trained to nimbly jump through hoops, scale inclines, and weave between poles in order to demonstrate agility. To take home ribbons at…

  • Videos: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

    Videos: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. This week, we’re featuring a special selection of videos from ICRA 2023! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Energy Drone &…

  • MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

    MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you sure? And what about all of its robot friends, do they know where they are too? This is important. So important, in fact, that some would…

  • Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening

    Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening

    I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. These aren’t fancy robots: they’re automated hydroponic systems that take care of water and nutrients and (fake) sunlight, and they do an amazing job. My…

  • Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

    Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023,…

  • Who’s the Coolest Robot of All?

    Who’s the Coolest Robot of All?

    Calling all robot fanatics! We are the creators of the Robots Guide, IEEE’s interactive site about robotics, and we need your help. Today, we’re expanding our massive catalog to nearly 250 robots, and we want your opinion to decide which are the coolest, most wanted, and also creepiest robots out there. To submit your votes,…

  • Video Friday: Lunar Transport – IEEE Spectrum

    Video Friday: Lunar Transport – IEEE Spectrum

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023,…

  • Even slight traffic noise has a negative impact on work performance — ScienceDaily

    Even slight traffic noise has a negative impact on work performance — ScienceDaily

    Researchers at Chalmers’ Division of Applied Acoustics have conducted a laboratory study in which test subjects took concentration tests while being exposed to background traffic noise. The subjects were asked to look at a computer screen and react to certain letters, then to assess their perceived workload afterwards. The study shows that the subjects had…