Robotics News – Latest Headlines

Slow (no, fast) and steady TurtleBot wins robotic race

Researchers have developed an algorithm to help robots avoid colliding with humans and other moving obstacles in their path.

Jan 10th, 2022

Engineers bring a soft touch to commercial robotics

Inspired by the natural dexterity of the human hand, a team of engineers has created a reconfigurable hybrid robotics system that is able to grip a variety of objects: from the small, soft and delicate to the large, heavy and bulky.

Dec 28th, 2021

Robotic manipulators Inspired by nature (w/video)

Flexible tentaclelike manipulators driven by air pressure can be designed to grasp, manipulate soft objects.

Dec 21st, 2021

Giving bug-like bots a boost

A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.

Dec 17th, 2021

Mind-controlled robots now one step closer

Two research groups have developed a computer program that can control a robot using electrical signals emitted by a patient's brain. No voice control or touch function is needed; patients can move the robot simply with their thoughts.

Dec 17th, 2021

Human-like brain helps robot out of a maze (w/video)

It's been known for some time that organic neuromorphic robots can learn. Now they can move too. Autonomously.

Dec 13th, 2021

Criminal intent: How the Internet-of-Things can also be a threat

There's an Internet of Things, but also an 'Internet of Threat'. Since everything is now connected, that means everything is hackable. Better technologies create a great opportunity for hackers, and open a great future for cyber criminals.

Dec 10th, 2021

Engineers teach AI to navigate ocean with minimal energy (w/video)

Research could enable monitoring of our oceans or exploration of alien ocean worlds.

Dec 9th, 2021

These tiny liquid robots never run out of juice as long as they have food (w/video)

By removing electricity from equation, discovery overcomes yearslong hurdle in robotics.

Dec 8th, 2021

'My robot is a softie': Physical texture influences judgments of robot personality

Impressions of a robot's personality can be influenced by the way it looks, sounds, and feels. But now, researchers have found specific causal relationships between impressions of robot personality and body texture.

Dec 6th, 2021

Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills

A floating, robotic film could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Engineers create perching bird-like robot (w/video)

With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Artificial intelligence to develop fundamentally new problem-solving techniques

For the first time, computer scientists and mathematicians have used artificial intelligence to help prove or suggest new mathematical theorems in the complex fields of knot theory and representation theory.

Dec 1st, 2021

Team builds first living robots that can reproduce (w/video)

AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication - promising for regenerative medicine.

Nov 30th, 2021

Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships

A new machine-learning model could enable robots to understand interactions in the world in the way humans do.

Nov 29th, 2021

Autonomous robot can open doors, find nearest electric outlet

One flaw in the notion that robots will take over the world is that the world is full of doors.

Nov 10th, 2021

Grants will help advance AI techniques to address data challenges

$3 million in funding to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that has the potential to tackle some of the country's biggest data challenges.

Nov 2nd, 2021

Works well with robots?

As more artificial intelligence systems and robots aid human workers, building trust between them is key to getting the job done.

Nov 1st, 2021