The swish of robotic arms, electronic beeps, and a Ganesha prayer playing on loop are the only sounds on the factory floor of Polymatech, a semiconductor unit in Kancheepuram.

A robot swarm listens to music and paints with light, showing how coordinated machines and people can create adaptive visual art.

Wiim is moving into the smart home with the Sound speaker, offering high-tier audio other smart speakers just don't have.

Beep is built on top of its Streamer interface, which is like io.Reader, but for audio. It was one of the best design decisions I've ever made and it enabled all the rest of the features to naturally ...

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Abstract: Emotion recognition and touch gesture decoding are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in social environments where emotional cues and tactile perception play ...

Robot vacuum companies have tried to tackle stairs for a while now, and they might have finally found the solution. When Roborock recently revealed the Saros Rover, a robot with extendable legs, at ...

The voice-controlled, transforming robot is an objectively cool toy, but a little less than meets the eye in the sound department. Reading time 8 minutes Whenever I see a toy robot, I feel like a kid ...

Jonathan Pearce joins John Murray & Ian Dennis to talk football, travel & language. John is back from Bodø, Jonathan tells tales of changing football on the radio, his thoughts on the Cantona kung-fu ...

Common big-eared bats eat relatively large insects, such as katydids. Christian Ziegler via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.5 Common big-eared bats are remarkable hunters. In 2019, bat ecologist Inga ...

Abstract: Welding defects recognition based on arc sound signals remains a significant challenge in robot arc welding. Existing deep learning methods mainly focus on classifying penetration states ...

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