http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it—an object's location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted—a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. http://phys.org/news287060685.html Electronics Mon, 06 May 2013 12:04:52 EST news287060685 (Phys.org) -- If you hire a robot to help you move into your new apartment, you won't have to send out for pizza. But you will have to give the robot a system for figuring out where things go. The best approach, according to Cornell researchers, is to ask "How will humans use this?" http://phys.org/news259219981.html Electronics Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:33:18 EST news259219981 (Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes. http://phys.org/news256886510.html Electronics Tue, 22 May 2012 06:22:12 EST news256886510 Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. This opens up a wider world of personal robotics, in which machines are doing anything their owners can program them to do—without actually being programmers. http://phys.org/news250441392.html Electronics Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:04:01 EST news250441392 (PhysOrg.com) -- If we someday live in "smart houses" or have personal robots to help around the home and office, they will need to be aware of what humans are doing. You don't remind grandpa to take his arthritis pills if you already saw him taking them -- and robots need the same insight. http://phys.org/news230280873.html Technology Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:55:26 EST news230280873 (PhysOrg.com) -- They're mundane, yet daunting tasks: Tidying a messy room. Assembling a bookshelf from a kit of parts. Fetching a hairbrush for someone who can't do it herself. What if a robot could do it for you? http://phys.org/news204302288.html Electronics Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:38:20 EST news204302288