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Video: Robot uses vision and AI to adapt to terrain like animals in real time

A KAIST research team has developed a quadrupedal robot control system that allows machines ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

Robot dog in Mexico teaches animal kindness on the streets

He walks, he talks, he runs and he plays. He’s “Waldog,” an AI-powered robot that is making the rounds in the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico, to raise awareness about animal abuse and welfare.

Why a ‘terrifying' Elon Musk robot dog is roaming San Francisco

A flesh-colored android has been spotted roaming the city streets with an eerily realistic head resembling that of Tesla CEO ...
The Atlantic

A Zoo's Worth of Robotic Animals

The latest TED talk feels a few years ahead of its time. Featuring Markus Fischer, the head of corporate design for German tech company Festo, the video shows what appears to be a sort of stiff ...

We can’t implant our brains in robot beavers – but Hoppers gets a lot right about animal science

Hoppers is a deceptively simple story that opens up complex ethical and scientific questions. Jerry (Jon Hamm), the mayor of ...
Psychology Today

What Can We Learn About Dog and Animal Behavior with Robots?

Of course, ethorobotics is not a substitute for humans carefully observing and studying other animals, but it's clear we can learn a lot from the use of robots in our attempts to learn more about ...