The maker of Moxie, an AI-powered robot for kids, is shutting down. Why it matters: The parents who bought the device are not only out several hundred dollars — now they also have to explain to ...

In a Queens high-school gym, budding roboticists went head to head, in front of a student choir and real-life refs.

2020.3004325) the system takes in multiple camera views looking all around the robot. Results of image segmentation are then synthesized into a 2D top-down segmented map of the robot’s surroundings.

This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. When Goldie Nejat began developing robots in 2005, she spent much of her time knocking on doors in hopes of ...