Sweater-wrapped robots can feel and react to human touch
The qualities that make a knitted sweater comfortable and easy to wear are the same things that might allow robots to better interact with humans.
May 25, 2023
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Grasping the future with a robotic arm-hand combo
Reaching into your pocket to retrieve your phone seems like no big deal. For a robot, however, it is. Like many routine gestures that we take for granted, it's actually very complex. Doing so requires large movements from ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Toward tactile and proximity sensing in large soft robots
In recent years, robots have become incredibly sophisticated machines capable of performing or assisting humans in all tasks. The days of robots functioning behind a security barrier are long gone, and today we may anticipate ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Building a precise assistive-feeding robot that can handle any meal
Eating a meal involves multiple precise movements to bring food from plate to mouth.
Apr 12, 2023
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Bionic robot arms as flexible and gentle as an elephant's trunk
Artificial muscles and nerves made from the shape memory alloy nickel-titanium are making robot arms as supple and agile as their animal counterparts. But these artificial limbs also weigh less, will work tirelessly and can ...
Apr 4, 2023
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A robot that makes and launches paper planes to test designs
A group of engineers at CREATE Lab (Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab), EPFL, in Lausanne Switzerland, has designed and built a robot arm that is capable of designing paper airplanes, building them and then launching ...
Mar 20, 2023 report
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Robots are performing Hindu rituals—some devotees fear they'll replace worshippers
It isn't just artists and teachers who are losing sleep over advances in automation and artificial intelligence. Robots are being brought into Hinduism's holiest rituals—and not all worshippers are happy about it.
Mar 8, 2023
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A soft robotic tentacle controlled via active cooling
Robotic systems have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decades, improving both in terms of precision and capabilities. This is gradually facilitating the partial automation of some surgical and medical procedures.
Feb 9, 2023 feature
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AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has a new artist-in-residence. FRIDA, a robotic arm with a paintbrush taped to it, uses artificial intelligence to collaborate with humans on works of art. Ask FRIDA to paint ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Using Moroccan tea tray mathematics to turn robots into skilled waiters
Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a model that enables a robot to serve tea and coffee faster and more safely than ...
Jan 16, 2023
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