The Vulcan robot, described as Amazon’s first robot “with a sense of touch”, uses computer vision to understand how to handle ...

Low-cost robotic skin sensor could enable robots to mimic human touch, allowing them to properly grasp an object by differentiang between curves and edges. Researchers at Northwestern University and ...

Some require the robot to flip, lift or turn certain LEGO objects on the play board. Teams have 2.5 minutes to complete as many tasks as possible to score points. Teams can only touch their robots ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. Amazon’s new warehouse robot, Vulcan, uses force sensors ...

As WIRED revealed last year, other startups such as Physical Intelligence are looking to build AI models that make robots much smarter. Adding touch-sensor data to the training mix could perhaps ...

Project Vulcan has ‘force feedback sensors’ on the end of an arm and grabbing tool (Amazon/PA) Amazon has unveiled its first robot it says has a sense of touch that it calls a “fundamental ...

Researchers overcome a long-time challenge of flexible touch ... robot, for example, does not have the same training and skills as the electrical engineer whose electronics will process the sensor ...

Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the ... cheap robotic skins could allow robots to mimic human touch, allowing ...

Frankie the Cat is just one of a five robot-building projects ... the programming of the central brick, sensors, and motor -- happens on the tablet. Lego Boost doesn’t getting mired in tech ...

Now they're gearing up to build robots at the FIRST LEGO League World Championship in Houston, from April 16-19. FIRST LEGO League has teams in over 110 countries and over 679,000 participants.

Fourth-grade student Sergio Preciado of Richland demonstrates how the Lego robot he helped write code for works on the “Submerged” themed task board. Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com ...