When it comes to edge cases – fallen trees, road work, officers directing traffic, etc. – autonomous vehicles (AV) continue to remain dependent on human assistance. Which is a key reason that, for the ...

Robotics training infrastructure startup XDOF said today it has raised $70 million in funding to try to solve one of the ...

(a) Steady-hand robot; (b) Micron; (c) “A 73” ; (d) New steady-hand robot; (e) Preceyes; (f) REMS; (g) Bern University robot. Microsurgery requires manipulating delicate tissue or fragile structures ...

Force-feedback bilateral teleoperation—the technology that lets human operators feel and manipulate distant objects via a robot—has accelerated markedly in the past decade. In the comprehensive survey ...

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: Automation and jobs in the new normal. When an interviewer pressed Postmates VP Ali Kashani last year on whether the company’s use of ...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have already racked up thousands of uninterrupted hours of autonomous driving. But there are still plenty of cases where AVs need humans to intervene and guide their response ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More There is a lot of chatter right now about self-driving vehicles, which is ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Tesla is actively hiring from its AI Teleoperation team, with successful applicants needing to use a state-of-the-art VR rig to remotely use and train ...

Tesla has confirmed through a new job listing that it plans to establish a ‘teleoperation’ team to remote control its upcoming robotaxi fleet. It’s something that Tesla really needs in order to ...

What is teleoperation? Why is it so critical for autonomous vehicles? Why it’s not as simple as it seems. Who doesn’t know about self-driving cars? Perhaps the first time you heard of autonomous ...

Figure, a robotics company developing humanoid robots that operate via AI, is running a livestream of one of its robots sorting packages in real time to show off its capabilities. The livestream was ...