New footage shows an expressionless iRonCub MK3 robot taking off using four thrusters — two where its arms should be and two in a jetpack on its back.

Human robot getting closer: iCub robot must learn from its experiences Date: September 27, 2013 Source: University of Twente Summary: A robot that feels, sees and, in particular, thinks and learns ...

The iCub robot's battery backpack was tested and optimized using an oscilloscope and power probes. The battery backpack contains a 36V-9.3Ah Li-ion power source.

The iCub humanoid robot represents a standardized common open-source platform for research on embodied artificial intelligence (AI). It is available in 36 copies in laboratories across Europe, USA ...

Robots that can make their own decisions have so far been confined to science fiction movies, but "iCub," a child-sized figure with big eyes and a white face, is trying hard to turn fiction into ...

Study senior author Agnieszka Wykowska pictured with the deceptively "self-aware" robot iCub. (Image credit: Italian Institute of Technology) An uncannily human-like robot that had been programmed ...

Technology Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remotely through VR A person wearing a VR headset and haptic feedback gloves can control the iCub 3 robot and experience being somewhere ...

It's my first time drumming along with a robot. I'm sitting across a table from an adorable humanoid robot called the iCub. We each have our own stick and box, and are meant to strike the box with ...

Why are Nao, Pepper and iCub, robots used in schools and museums, clad with shiny, white plastic?

Humanoid robots are symbols of power and technological capability, a geopolitics expert says. China and the US are going head-to-head `to mass produce them, like a 21st-century space race. But ...

It's my first time drumming along with a robot. I'm sitting across a table from an adorable humanoid robot called the iCub. We each have our own stick and box, and are meant to strike the box with ...