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Third and fourth robotic arms feel like a part of the user's own body

Researchers have developed supernumerary robotic arms operated by the user's foot movements in a virtual environment. It has shown that users can feel the supernumerary robotic arms as a part of their own body.

June 27, 2022 Read more

Flawed AI makes robots racist, sexist

A robot operating with a popular internet-based artificial intelligence system consistently gravitates to men over women, white people over people of color, and jumps to conclusions about peoples' jobs after a glance at their face.

June 26, 2022 Read more

Machine learning meets fingers, hands and elbows for enhanced robotic therapy

A new AI platform's advanced musculoskeletal models could speed up the development of prosthetics and post-injury rehab.

June 25, 2022 Read more

Study provides insights into blockchain vulnerabilities

The study resulted in a report that provides holistic analysis that's available to anyone considering blockchains for important matters so they can better understand the potential vulnerabilities within these systems.

June 25, 2022 Read more

Engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system (w/video)

A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.

June 23, 2022 Read more

Are babies the key to the next generation of artificial intelligence?

New research proposes a new direction to overcome limitations of machine learning.

June 23, 2022 Read more

Can robotics help us achieve sustainable development?

An international team of scientists have assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

June 22, 2022 Read more

Predicting when and where glass will break

Researchers demonstrate that artificial intelligence can predict when quartz glass will fracture based on information learned from images of its atomic microstructure.

June 22, 2022 Read more

Robotic fireflies take flight (w/video)

Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.

June 21, 2022 Read more

Engineers create single-step, all-in-one 3D printing method to make robotic materials (w/video)

A 3D-printed 'meta-bot' is capable of propulsion, movement, sensing and decision-making. It is manufactured all at once by a new type of 3D printing process for engineered active materials with multiple functions (also known as metamaterials).

June 17, 2022 Read more

Microrobot device removes brain hemorrhages due to strokes or aneurysms

A new treatment for strokes caused by bleeding in the brain that uses a magnetically controlled microrobot-enabled self-clearing catheter has been shown to be 86% effective in animal models.

June 17, 2022 Read more

Origami millirobots bring health care closer to precision drug delivery

Mechanical engineers create multifunctional wireless robots to maximize health outcomes and minimize invasiveness of procedures.

June 15, 2022 Read more

Shape-shifting drone flies and dives to seek aquatic environmental clues (w/video)

A new 'dual robot' drone can both fly through air and land on water to collect samples and monitor water quality.

June 14, 2022 Read more

Participants wanted for study on the regulation of what future AI-driven nanomedicines should look like

The research is part of the SWARM study - Small robots With collective behaviour as AI-driven cancer therapies; building Regulations for future nanoMedicines.

June 14, 2022 Read more

Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.

June 13, 2022 Read more

Scientists craft living human skin for robots (w/video)

In not-at-all-creepy news, scientists have made living human skin for robots, and they say it's a bit 'sweaty'.

June 9, 2022 Read more

When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?

We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units - therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however, is much more complicated. For starters, we don't actually know how much information the human brain can hold.

June 9, 2022 Read more

Engineers create chip that can process and classify nearly two billion images per second

To create their chip, researchers removed the four main time-consuming culprits in the traditional computer chip: the conversion of optical to electrical signals, the need for converting the input data to binary format, a large memory module, and clock-based computations.

June 4, 2022 Read more