Robotic rehabilitation, which provides a high-intensity, high-frequency therapy to improve neuroplasticity, is gaining traction. However, its effectiveness for upper extremity stroke rehabilitation ...
Israeli scientists have developed a solar-powered underwater robot called SOUND that can roam autonomously for five days at a stretch, counting fish and communicating its findings back to observers ...
iRobot, the creator of the Roomba and the company that popularized robot vacuums in the first place, told investors on Wednesday that it has "substantial doubt about [its] ability to continue." Beyond ...
The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...
(from left) Roz (Lupita N’yongo), and Brightbill (Kit Connor) in DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot, directed by Chris Sanders. The nominations for the 72nd Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, honoring ...
There's a common popular science demonstration involving "soap boats," in which liquid soap poured onto the surface of water creates a propulsive flow driven by gradients in surface tension. But it ...
When it came to designing the animation style for The Wild Robot, director Chris Sanders found himself enthralled by the hand-crafted, painterly style of the concept art being developed. Production ...
The Wild Robot is about an unlikely family of a robot and a goose. The music from the film reflects composer Kris Bowers’ own anxieties about being a new parent: He had a 6-month-old daughter when he ...
Re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts tells IndieWire about how Roz (Lupita Nyong'o) needed to sound and feel. What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot ...
Abstract: Storytelling is a long-established human tradition for entertainment and knowledge transfer. Social robots are emerging as a new storytelling medium, being able to imitate human storytelling ...