The West Japan Rail Company (or JR West) unveiled its Gundam-style heavy equipment robot for carrying out repairs. The robot takes on the appearance of a humanoid upper body mounted on the end of a ...
A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to attend ...
Hosted on MSN
VR could help train employees working with robots
Working with robots is becoming more common in the recycling industry, helping automate tasks and making complicated work easier. But training human employees to work with robots can be difficult and ...
Last year at CES French startup Pollen Robotics debuted Reachy, an open-source humanoid robot (the top half of one at least) capable of performing a wide variety of tasks — from traditional R&D to ...
When you’re plugged into a good virtual reality experience, you might talk about how it “feels real.” That’s apparently not good enough for engineer James Bruton, who built a robot to punch him while ...
The appeal of virtual reality is the promise of being able to go anywhere—to ancient civilizations or fictional alien worlds—without ever leaving your home. Every day, technology brings this closer ...
At the threshold of the autonomous revolution, one fact has remained stubbornly consistent for the last half-century: Controlling robots is a pain. Virtual reality, it turns out, could be the key to ...
WTF?! I have reported extensively on ways that developers are trying to make virtual reality more immersive. It's one of my favorite topics. I love technologies that make VR more like real life.
Robot boots made for exploring virtual reality (VR) worlds are now coming to market. This marks our latest step toward a Ready Player One-type future. The boots, dubbed Eckto One, aim to allow people ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback