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A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did this by ...

DARPA has announced the nine winners of its Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). The VRC, which ran from the 17th to the 21st of this month, was the first of three events that make up the DARPA Robotics ...

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IT companies can pilot their innovative products before offering them to the city. Projects like a patrol robot, a virtual training simulator for aeromedical teams, a bionic vision VR simulator and an ...

New program to support surgeon training for FDA-authorized Hominis ® Surgical System, the first-ever surgical robot with humanoid-shaped arms ZURICH & TEL AVIV, Israel & FORT LAUDERDALE, ...

TUBINGEN, Germany, Sept. 23 (UPI) --Scientists at a German institute unveiled their CableRobot simulator, a giant caged platform that moves on cables to simulate motion for virtual reality. Professor ...

Virtual reality headsets can trick our eyes and ears into believing we're someplace else. Fooling the rest of the body is a little trickier though. Companies have tried spinning chairs and ...