Robots stand in for university students during graduation in Japan while they self-isolate at home during the coronavirus pandemic Robots were used to stand in for students at a graduation ceremony in Japan Tablets were placed on the robots’ heads that let students project their faces Students who attended the ceremony controlled the robots movements … Read more
Robots are being used in an Irish hospital to do basic admin tasks ‘so nurses can spend more time treating coronavirus patients’ Software firm UiPath partnered with Mater Misericordiae University Hospital They will rapidly go through basic administrative tasks to free up nurses It is hoped they will be able to spend more of their time tending patients … Read more
Robots could be trained to disinfect surfaces, take temperatures, collecting swabs and provide social support for quarantined patients to help combat the coronavirus pandemic Robots could undertake the ‘dull, dirty and dangerous jobs’, researchers argued These applications would help to lower the levels of human exposure to disease However, this would require the machines to gain … Read more
Spain turns to AI tech in battle against coronavirus: Officials will buy four robots capable of testing a combined 80,000 patients for deadly bug a day Current number of tests in the country per day is between 15,000 and 20,000 Four robots will be deployed but it is not yet known when they will be … Read more
Experts have given their top predictions for what house technology will revolutionise home living in the near future. When British people were asked which inventions they would most like to see in their future homes, house robots were the most popular, followed by cleaning drones and washing balls. The majority of Brits remain sceptical on … Read more
Researchers in Norway test how comfortable salmon in a commercial fish farm being monitored by underwater robots instead of human divers A team of scientists in Norway observed 188,000 salmon in a sea cage fish farm They sent a smaller and larger robot into the water to observe the salmon The fish appeared to be … Read more
Military robots win search and rescue competition as they search for survivors in underground power plant after gas leak DARPA hosted a search and rescue competition for autonomous robots The winning team, from JPL programmed 12 autonomous robots to find warm mannequins standing in for human survivors, and a lost cell phone in the ruins … Read more