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Engineers develop a way to use everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a low-cost, low-power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors, even in poor lighting and without recognizable landmarks or features.
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A quadcopter that works in the air and underwater and also has a suction cup for hitching a ride on a host
A team of researchers at Beihang University, working with colleagues at Imperial College London and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, has developed a quadcopter drone that is capable of flying ...
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Robot hives in Israel kibbutz hope to keep bees buzzing
They function as normal hives, but apiaries built at a kibbutz in Israel's Galilee are decked out with high-tech artificial intelligence systems set to ensure longevity for these vital pollinators.
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Senior engineering students create unique project, an animatronic head
Somewhere in the labyrinth of Patrick F. Taylor Hall, there sits a disembodied head that will provide the answers to life's greatest mysteries, provided he is presented with the proper offering. His glowing eyes change color ...
May 18, 2022
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A new approach for safer control of mobile robotic arms
Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Oxford, and the Tencent Robotics X Lab have recently introduced a configuration-aware policy for safely controlling mobile robotic arms. This policy, introduced ...
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A beaver-inspired method to guide the movements of a one-legged swimming robot
When developing new technologies, computer scientists and roboticists often draw inspiration from animals and other living organisms. This allows them to artificially replicate complex behaviors and locomotion patterns to ...
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Tiny drone based on maple seed pod doubles flight time
A trio of researchers at City University of Hong Kong has developed a tiny drone based on the maple seed pod. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, Songnan Bai, Qingning He and Pakpong Chirarattananon, ...
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Artificial muscles help robot vacuum manipulators get a grip
The robot grippers designed by Professor Stefan Seelecke and his team at Saarland University can grip and manipulate objects with complex geometries. The system can adapt almost instantaneously to changes in form, switching ...
May 16, 2022
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What producers of Star Wars movies are getting wrong about androids
Robin Murphy, a roboticist at Texas A&M University has published a Focus piece in the journal Science Robotics outlining her views on the robots portrayed in "Star Wars," most particularly those featured in "The Mandalorian" ...
May 13, 2022 report
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Robot dog may get to go to the moon
The robotic explorer GLIMPSE, created at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, has made it into the final round of a competition for prospecting resources in space. The long-term goal is for the robot to explore the south ...
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A reconfigurable robotic system for cleaning and maintenance
Reconfigurable or "transformer" systems are robots or other systems that can adapt their state, configuration, or morphology to perform different tasks more effectively. In recent years, roboticists and computer scientists ...
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A new robotic system for automated laundry
Researchers at University of Bologna and Electrolux have recently developed a new robotic system that could assist humans with one of their most common everyday chores, doing laundry. This system, introduced in a paper published ...
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Is AI-generated art really creative? It depends on the presentation
Ai-Da sits behind a desk, paintbrush in hand. She looks up at the person posing for her, and then back down as she dabs another blob of paint onto the canvas. A lifelike portrait is taking shape. If you didn't know a robot ...
May 10, 2022
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This robot lives with an Antarctica penguin colony, monitoring their every move
Thousands of emperor penguins waddling around Antarctica have a stalker: A yellow rover tracking their every move.
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