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Two researchers from Georgia Tech are studying the trust-repair strategies that robots can use when they deceive humans. Kantwon Rogers, a Ph.D. student, and Reiden Webber, an undergraduate in computer science, are researching robot deception in a driving simulation to explore the effectiveness of apologies to repair trust after robots lie.

ResearchAndMarkets.com has recently released a report titled “Global Robotic Welding Market 2022-2028”, which states that the global market for robotic welding is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.35% in the evaluated phase of 2022-2028. The report notes that the key driver for this growth is the increased preference for robots for welding due to their high efficiency.

According to a recent report by ResearchAndMarkets.com, the global robot end effector market is expected to see significant growth in the coming years. The market is expected to increase from USD 2.3 billion in 2023 to USD 4.3 billion by 2028, registering a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13.5%.

Hai Robotics, provider of intelligent automated warehousing solutions, has won the MHI Innovation Award for Best Innovation of an Existing Product for their A42T Autonomous Case-handling Robot (ACR). This award was announced at ProMat 2023, held in Chicago.

Who do children prefer to learn from? Previous research has shown that even infants can identify the best informant. But would preschoolers prefer learning from a competent robot over an incompetent human? According to a new paper by Concordia researchers published in the Journal of Cognition and Development, the answer largely depends on age.

A team of experts at The University of Manchester has been awarded major funding to help design smarter robots that will have more meaningfully dialogue with humans after developing improved insight into our inner feelings through language. The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Angelo Cangelosi, co-director of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI, a total of €2.5million as part of the eTALK project.

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that MobileDrive has adopted a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach to support its Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) development, using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio and its comprehensive digital twin technology.

In a recent open letter, a group of researchers and experts have called on all AI labs to pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The authors of the letter believe that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence pose significant risks to society and humanity, and the current level of planning and management is inadequate.

More than five million people in the United States live with some form of paralysis and may encounter difficulties completing everyday tasks, like grabbing a glass of water or putting on clothes. New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) aims to increase autonomy for individuals with such motor impairments by introducing a head-worn device that will help them control a mobile manipulator.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward and dip under narrow spaces. The caterpillar-bot’s movement is driven by a novel pattern of silver nanowires that use heat to control the way the robot bends, allowing users to steer the robot in either direction.