Self-driving Roboats set sail in Amsterdam canals
If you don't get seasick, an autonomous boat might be the right mode of transportation for you.
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Researchers develop interface for underwater robotic equipment
A research team from the Interactive and Robotic Systems Laboratory at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló has developed software that allows underwater robots with manipulation capabilities to be controlled remotely in ...
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Teaching robots to think like us: Brain cells, electrical impulses steer robot though maze
Can intelligence be taught to robots? Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could contribute to creating artificial intelligence machines that think like us.
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Commercial UAVS have potential to halve CO2 emissions for freight deliveries
Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to almost halve the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of urban freight transport compared to small light commercial vehicles (LCVs), providing an unprecedented opportunity ...
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Light-fueled torsional soft robot able to rapidly climb stairs
Azobenzene-functionalized liquid crystalline materials can be operated by remote light-stimuli without complicated circuits or parts and thus are attracting great attention in fields such as human interfaces, haptic devices, ...
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A technique to automatically generate hardware components for robotic systems
As robots become increasingly sophisticated and advanced, they will typically require a growing amount of hardware components, including robotic limbs, motors, sensors and actuators. In addition, robots have integrated computers ...
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Control system enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real time
A loping cheetah dashes across a rolling field, bounding over sudden gaps in the rugged terrain. The movement may look effortless, but getting a robot to move this way is an altogether different prospect.
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Raspberry Pi announces Build HAT—an add-on device that uses Pi hardware to control LEGO Technic motors
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is announcing the release of Raspberry Pi Build HAT—an add-on device that allows users to use Raspberry Pi hardware to control LEGO Technic motors. On the Raspberry Pi News page, company rep ...
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A system to transfer robotic dexterous manipulation skills from simulations to real robots
Last year, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems organized the Real Robot Challenge, a competition that challenged academic labs to come up with solutions to the problem of repositioning and reorienting a cube ...
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An online method to allocate tasks to robots on a team during natural disaster scenarios
Teams of robots could help users to complete numerous tasks more rapidly and efficiently, as well as keeping human agents out of harm's way during hazardous operations. In recent years, some studies have particularly explored ...
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