A new tour guided by avatar robot ‘OriHime’ in Nihonbashi area was launched. A pilot can guide a traveler through the ...

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At the MEMS & Sensors Forum in SEMICON Taiwan 2025 held in Taipei on September 9, two leading experts presented complementary visions for the future of robotics. Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, a renowned ...

DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called "Avatar." If you've seen the movie of the ...

An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

The world’s largest robotics conference, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, came to London last week, where a dizzying array of cutting-edge robots were on display, ...