{"278261":{"#nid":"278261","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Rise of the Compliant Machines","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAre we on the brink of a robotics revolution? That\u2019s what numerous media outlets asked last December when Google acquired eight robotics companies that specialize in such innovations as manipulation, vision, and humanoid robots. Simon, a robot co-developed by Meka and robotics researchers at Georgia Tech, includes a Meka humanoid head with 13 degrees of freedom (DOF), including independently moving eyes and eyelids, movable ears, and a five-DOF neck, which replicates a human\u2019s range of motion. It also conveys nonverbal cues through lifelike head motions, eye contact, and blinking.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-02-21 17:59:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:59","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"DDR (Disarmament","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/aroundmit\/524981\/rise-of-the-compliant-machines\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"65331","name":"Meka Robotics"},{"id":"168963","name":"simon; andrea thomaz; robotics; humanoid robot"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}