Tag Archives: University of Pennsylvania

Make Your Own Robot

Designed, programmed and printed! The video above displays three prototypes resulting from a new project lead by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). With a 10 million USD grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the collaboration … Continue reading

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The Robot Revolution…

Is it about robot evolution? Robots have been transforming industries for years. In fact, it seems fair to say that the robot revolution happened a few decades ago and now we’re onto the sequel. Time magazine featured a  cover story … Continue reading

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A Robot who Really Does the Dirty Deeds

The University of Pennsylvania has a poop-scooping pal Formally the name of the project  responsible for developing this robot is Perception Of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control Of Object Pickup but the acronym POOP SCOOP puts things more bluntly.

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