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Robots and AI are taking on new roles, from inspecting oil rigs to hiring human workers. How do self-driving car regulations and Russian AI reflect new fronts in geopolitical competition?

As National Robotics Week kicks off, Robotics Business Review takes a look at an undergraduate project that uses robotics to solve real-world problems for military installations.

DOWNLOAD: Case Study Magnetic encoders from RLS give balance to the REEM-C humanoid robot, giving it balance control and successful bipedal locomotion.

Supply chain and logistics companies looking to speed up deliveries from the warehouse to the customer are looking at aerial drone delivery as an option.

Scientists have been copying nature to develop pollination drones that can assist real bees and human farmers.

Swiss university ETH Zurich is been working on a walking robot prototype and perception using machine learning. Both technologies could help service robots catch on.

SoFi, a robotic fish developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL and the University of Colorado at Boulder, will study coral reefs and avoid disrupting the environment.

Among the innovations that IBM says will change the world in the next five years are AI-powered robot microscopes to monitor the oceans and fixing growing AI bias.

AutoSaw lets robots give carpenters and furniture makers a hand, saving fingers from potential injury.

For the robotics ecosystem to grow and benefit local economies, organizations such as MassRobotics are learning to work with government programs such as MassWorks and are connecting academia and industry.