HOMESTEAD, Fla. — An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory of a pioneer in the design of intelligent humanoid machines. The early roboticist, Hirochika Inoue , began work in the field almost a half-century ago at the University of Tokyo, and in the mid-1990s led the design of robots that could both walk […]