The Reading Police Bomb Squad robot was the main attraction Tuesday at Camp Cadet. Cadets Stewart Leighland, 14, of Womelsdorf, left, and Benicio Torres, 13, of Mohrsville race while wearing bomb ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...

Researchers have overcome a major challenge in biomimetic robotics by developing a sensor that, assisted by AI, can slide over braille text, accurately reading it at twice human speed. The tech could ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. In classrooms, libraries and homes, these small machines are designed to read stories, play games or offer comfort to children. They promise ...

METHUEN — At three feet tall and with a penchant for promoting literacy, Pepper is not exactly the Terminator. Pepper is a robot programmed by students from Merrimack College who has taken up ...

PAL Robotics plans to launch its first large-scale pilot of its motorized RFID-reading robot in Europe during the second half of this year. The newest version of the Spanish company’s StockBot will be ...

An AI-driven robot demonstrates an exceptional ability to read Braille at a speed twice that of humans-reaching an impressive 315 words per minute. The researchers harnessed algorithms to enable the ...

Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to read braille at speeds roughly double that of most human readers. The research team, from the ...

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