Dubbed Silicon Valley’s ‘favourite artist’ for her widespread popularity among the IT hotshots, Agnieszka Pilat said the robot dog’s tiny footprints represent ‘the feet of the millions of refugees marching to Poland.’
Named BellaBot, or Bella to its friends, the black and white robot waits for visitors at the entrance alongside a (live) waiter or waitress, greets the guests and escorts them to their table, then delivers their ordered dishes.
The robots, which resemble medium-sized cooling boxes on wheels, are aimed at solving the problem of courier shortages at peak order times, with robot Mateusz currently being tested at distances of up to 3km in the city’s centre.
A video of the arm at work shows it being able to lift a 7kg dumb-bell and acting like a real human arm, wiggling its fingers and clasping the weight.
Creator Gabriele Trovato from Tokyo’s Waseda University said: “The need to build such a robot became clear to me when I listened to friends who complained that they could not go to church during the pandemic.”
The ‘Senster’, one of the world’s first robotic sculptures to be controlled by a digital computer, has gone on display at Warsaw’s Zachęta art gallery.
VIDEO: A portmanteau of 'sensual' and 'monster', the 4.5-metre-long Senster enthralled audiences in the early 1970s, at a time when space exploration and mechanical revolution made anything seem possible.
Students from the Scientific Circle at the Institute of Applied Computer Science at the Łódź University of Technology have developed a way for people to interact with an artificial spider in a safe environment, which does not involve any actual touching or real spiders.
A tax break for entrepreneurs, that will allow the deduction of 50 percent costs incurred for investments in automation by Polish companies, will total PLN 1.1 billion (EUR 247.2 million) over five years, Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said on Friday.
The deal with the European Space Agency, the biggest ever in Poland’s space industry history, will see the arm being used to service satellites in the Earth’s orbit.
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