(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) MASTER'S DEGREE GRADUATE, KAZUKI TAMURA, SAYING: "When I entered this university, I never thought I would control an avatar robot to receive a diploma. I think this is truly a ...

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Over the past four years, the research team at the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova (Italy) has developed advanced avatar technologies, ...

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It is in the nature of space exploration for human operators to take control and manage robotic pieces of hardware located many many miles away. It's a way of doing things that opened up neighboring ...

The world’s largest robotics conference, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, came to London last week, where a dizzying array of cutting-edge robots were on display, ...