a quadrupedal robot developed in-house, to mimic animals, traverse complex obstacles and play in a designed, challenging multi-agent chase tag game, where lifelike agility and strategy emerge in ...

Katija takes her hands off the joysticks and smiles as the robot begins following ... gap in our understanding of these animals,” Katija says. The game for phones and tablets — dubbed ...

“No one does,” the animal retorts ... from the Czech for “forced labor,” and the play draws a clear comparison between the robots’ instrumentalization and the way that people are ...

Despite its machine-and-animal cast, “The Wild Robot” is a welcome step toward humanity for big-budget, studio animation.

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot ... to play, cower, or even engage in social nuzzling. This degree of mimicry could make SMEO a valuable tool for studying animal ...

(Minter, whose company is called Llamasoft, has a long-standing obsession with animals ... with the game’s sights and sounds without worrying about enemies. (The original I, Robot also included ...

Humans have firmly retained their lead over robots at table tennis for over 40 ... Researchers often opt for classic games like chess and Go to test the strategic capabilities of artificial ...