Ping pong robot returns shots with high-speed precision
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision.
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Page 21: Research news on Autonomous robotic locomotion
Autonomous robotic locomotion investigates how robots perceive, plan, and execute movement in complex, often unstructured environments with minimal human intervention. Work in this area spans legged, wheeled, aerial, amphibious, and soft robots, emphasizing bio-inspired control strategies, neuromechanics, and learning-based methods for gait adaptation, trajectory modulation, and slip prevention. Research also addresses navigation and mapping, kinematic and impedance control, and human–robot collaboration, enabling robots to perform tasks such as construction, waste collection, manipulation, and agile behaviors like parkour, badminton, and swarm-based assembly.
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Transforming hospital sanitation: Autonomous robots for wiping and UV-C disinfection
Researchers have developed an "Intelligent Autonomous Wiping and UV-C Disinfection Robot" capable of automating hospital disinfection processes.
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The future of marine operations: Robots that organize themselves
Imagine AI-controlled robots that organize themselves into different groups, or across groups—and that reorganize themselves and make new plans when needed. This kind of flexibility can enable robots to effectively solve ...
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Sanding away hidden insulation results in more reliable method to measure robotic touch reception
Researchers at Northwestern University and Israel's Tel Aviv University have overcome a major barrier to achieving a low-cost solution for advanced robotic touch. The authors argue that the problem that has been lurking in ...
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Q&A: How digital twins enhance design and control of off-road autonomy
Digital twins are a rapidly advancing area in engineering, going beyond static models to continuously receive data from the physical world and make predictions that go on to affect that reality. They have applications in ...
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Robotics researchers develop algorithms that make mobile navigation more efficient
Delivery robots made by companies such as Starship Technologies and Kiwibot autonomously make their way along city streets and through neighborhoods.
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Taking autonomous driving off-road for mining, search and rescue, exploration
Trees, vegetation, rocks, unpredictable terrain and the lack of clearly defined roads—or roads at all—won't stop an autonomous, off-road vehicle developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.
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Scientists use virtual reality for fish to teach robots how to swarm
Fish are masters of coordinated motion. Schools of fish have no leader, yet individuals manage to stay in formation, avoid collisions, and respond with liquid flexibility to changes in their environment. Reproducing this ...
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'Robotability score' ranks NYC streets for future robot deployment
For delivery robots, not all sidewalks are created equal—some are uneven or clogged with people and bus shelters—so researchers at Cornell Tech developed a "robotability score" and rated every street in New York City ...
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Flying squirrel-inspired drone with foldable wings demonstrates high maneuverability
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have already proved to be valuable tools for a wide range of applications, ranging from film and entertainment production to defense and security, agriculture, logistics, ...
