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Robotic hand with tactile fingertips achieves new dexterity feat
Improving the dexterity of robot hands could have significant implications for automating tasks such as handling goods for supermarkets or sorting through waste for recycling.
Jun 27, 2024
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Help or hindrance? ER robots have potential to aid health care workers
Amid the unpredictability and occasional chaos of emergency rooms, a robot has the potential to assist health care workers and support clinical teamwork, Cornell and Michigan State University researchers found.
Jun 27, 2024
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Is drone delivery a modern miracle or a band-aid fix for poor urban planning?
The chief executive of drone delivery company Wing says 2024 is "the year of drone delivery." The company first went public in 2014 as a Google "moonshot" project and now operates in several cities in Australia, the United ...
Jun 27, 2024
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Coming soon to Mountain View: Drone deliveries
Mountain View, California, residents will soon be able to order food, medicine and other small parcels to their homes via drone.
Jun 27, 2024
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New work explores optimal circumstances for reaching a common goal with humanoid robots
Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have demonstrated that under specific conditions, humans can treat robots as co-authors of the results of their actions. The condition ...
Jun 26, 2024
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Waymo robotaxi service opens to all in San Francisco
The Google-owned Waymo robotaxi service on Tuesday became available to anyone in San Francisco interested in hailing a driverless ride.
Jun 26, 2024
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Tuning the movement of a self-propelled robot to the physics of living matter
Robots are becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, performing jobs that are too dangerous for humans. This can often involve navigating complex environments, something rigid-bodied autonomous robots find difficult. ...
Jun 26, 2024
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S. Korea administrative robot defunct after apparent suicide
A city council in South Korea said Wednesday their first administrative officer robot was defunct after throwing itself down some stairs, with local media mourning the country's first robot suicide.
Jun 26, 2024
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Engineered skin tissue grants robots special properties and abilities
Researchers have found a way to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This brings with it potential benefits to robotic platforms such as increased mobility, self-healing abilities, embedded ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Synergizing sub-symbolic and symbolic AI: Pioneering approach to safe, verifiable humanoid walking
As sub-symbolic AI, like deep learning, continues to advance, its limitations in safety and reliability are becoming more apparent. Verification and stability are crucial in safety-critical domains such as humanoid robotics, ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Robots with the secrets of turtles: Reducing the cost of transport through diagonal gait
Research on energy efficiency enhancement of a tortoise-inspired legged robot, by a research team led by Dongwon Yun, professor at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST, has been featured on the ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Meet CARMEN, a robot that helps people with mild cognitive impairment
Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation—a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to improve memory, attention, and ...
Jun 24, 2024
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A new method to achieve smooth gait transitions in hexapod robots
Robots that can navigate various terrains both rapidly and efficiently could be highly advantageous, as they could successfully complete complex missions in challenging environments. For instance, these robots could help ...
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Q&A: Elephants use the tips of their trunks to grasp things with great precision—how this can help robotic design?
An elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, communicating, exploring the environment, social behavior, and making and using tools. The trunk, which contains six muscle groups, is not only very strong—it can uproot ...
Jun 23, 2024
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A method to enable safe mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments
To successfully complete missions in dynamic and unstructured real-world environments, mobile robots should be able to adapt their actions in real-time to avoid collisions with nearby objects, people or animals.
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Engineers unlock design for record-breaking robot that could jump twice the height of Big Ben
Engineers at The University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets to designing a robot capable of jumping 120 meters—higher than any other jumping robot designed to date.
Jun 18, 2024
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New soft robotic gripper designed with graphene and liquid crystals
Eindhoven researchers have developed a soft robotic "hand" made from liquid crystals and graphene that could be used to design future surgical robots. The new work has just been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials ...
Jun 18, 2024
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