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Modular robot design uses tethered jumping for planetary exploration
Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of robotic systems, including spacecraft for the exploration of other planets. These new systems could ultimately contribute to our understanding ...
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Engineers develop soft robot that crawls, climbs, and shape-shifts to move in new directions
A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in a new direction—all controlled by a single air input. This breakthrough, developed by researchers ...
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3D-printed robots: Soft-jointed swarms tackle tough terrains and tasks
Imagine a swarm of tiny robots, each about the size of the palm of your hand, spreading out over a wildfire-ravaged community, mapping areas contaminated by toxic materials, searching for survivors, identifying areas of rapid ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Apple engineers create expressive Pixar-like table lamp with AI capabilities
A team of engineers at Apple Computer has developed an expressive table lamp that interacts with a user rather than simply carrying out instructions. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing the ...
Robot acrobatics: Mammal tails offer surprising design insights
While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that mammals had already figured ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Pork gelatin powers biodegradable robot arm for delicate tasks
A team of engineers at Westlake University, Zhejiang Normal University and Shaoxing University, all in China, has tested the possibility of making some robot parts biodegradable. In their project, published in the journal ...
Feb 10, 2025
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The Kiri-Spoon: Research turns robotic hardware into flatware for assisted eating
More than 2 million adults living in the United States rely on a caregiver's assistance to eat daily meals. In addition to human caregivers, technology has been developed to provide assistance. For example, tabletop and wheelchair-mounted ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Ronaldo's Siuuu celebration: Whole-body training model allows robots to mimic famous athlete moves
A team of AI and robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, working with a pair of colleagues from technology company NVIDIA, has developed a new model for training robots to move like human athletes.
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Smart robotic wheelchair offers enhanced autonomy and control
Recent advances in the fields of human-infrastructure interaction, electronic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical technologies. ...
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Engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
Drone shows are an increasingly popular form of large-scale light display. These shows incorporate hundreds to thousands of airborne bots, each programmed to fly in paths that together form intricate shapes and patterns across ...
Feb 3, 2025
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See SUPER in action: Aerial robot can navigate unknown environments safely at high speeds
A team of engineers and roboticists at the University of Hong Kong have designed, built and tested an aerial robot capable of navigating unknown environments safely at high speeds while avoiding obstacles. In their paper ...
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Tradition and technology sync at China 'AI temple fair'
A humanoid robot gyrates to pulsing music at a shopping mall in Beijing, part of an exhibition harnessing artificial intelligence to enhance the flavor of China's biggest annual festival.
Feb 1, 2025
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Inspired by water bugs, researchers create tiny swimming robots for medical, environmental uses
Inspired by the movement of insects gliding on the surface of water, University of Waterloo researchers have designed tiny robots controlled by light, offering promising possibilities for environmental remediation and biomedical ...
Jan 30, 2025
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Using AI, researchers devise a fast and precise way to teach robots complicated skills
At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine's Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over ...
Jan 29, 2025
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Synthetic neurons that mimic human processes could lead to smarter robotics
Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory neurons, which communicate ...
Jan 29, 2025
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Soft robots mimic mantis shrimp's punch and flea's leap for added power
A research team has taken inspiration from principles found in nature and developed the "hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism" (HeTRM), which enables robots made from rubber-like soft materials to perform rapid and powerful ...
Jan 29, 2025
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Humanoid robots join human musicians for synchronized musical performances
In a fascinating blend of technology and artistry, researchers present a study in PeerJ Computer Science, showcasing how humanoid robots can collaborate seamlessly with human musicians during live musical performances. This ...
Jan 28, 2025
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New soft prosthetic hand offers natural bionic interfacing
Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical tools, including prosthetic limbs. While these limbs used to be hard objects with the same shape as limbs, prosthetics ...
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Expanding robot perception to give a more human-like awareness of their environment
Robots have come a long way since the Roomba. Today, drones are starting to deliver door to door, self-driving cars are navigating some roads, robo-dogs are aiding first responders, and still more bots are doing backflips ...
Jan 28, 2025
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'Embodied energy' powers modular worm and jellyfish robots
In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent Cornell research in battery development and design.
Jan 27, 2025
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Advancing wearable robotics through open-source innovation
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed CEINMS-RT, an open-source platform designed to transform the field of wearable robotics.
Jan 27, 2025
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Neural networks model improves machine vision and object detection under low-light conditions
When designing a robot, such as Boston Dynamics' anthropomorphic robot Atlas, which appears exercising and sorting boxes, fiducial markers are the guides that help them move, detect objects and determine their exact location. ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Butterfly-inspired method for robot wing movement works without electronics or batteries
Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have developed flexible robot wings that are moved by magnetic fields. Inspired by the efficiency and adaptability of the wings ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Embodied AI reveals how robots and toddlers learn to understand
We humans excel at generalization. If you taught a toddler to identify the color red by showing her a red ball, a red truck and a red rose, she will most likely correctly identify the color of a tomato, even if it is the ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Automating penmanship: Researchers develop cost-effective, AI-enhanced robotic handwriting system
Recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the development of a wide range of systems with unique characteristics designed for varying real-world applications. These include robots that can ...
