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How robots learn to hike (w/video)

To navigate difficult terrain, humans and animals quite automatically combine the visual perception of their environment with the proprioception of their legs and hands. This allows them to easily handle slippery or soft ground and move around with confidence, even when visibility is low.

January 24, 2022 Read more

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.

January 10, 2022 Read more

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.

December 28, 2021 Read more

Robotic manipulators Inspired by nature (w/video)

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

December 21, 2021 Read more

Giving bug-like bots a boost

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

December 17, 2021 Read more

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.

December 17, 2021 Read more

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.

December 13, 2021 Read more

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.

December 10, 2021 Read more

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

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

December 9, 2021 Read more

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.

December 8, 2021 Read more

'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.

December 6, 2021 Read more

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.

December 2, 2021 Read more

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.

December 2, 2021 Read more

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.

December 1, 2021 Read more

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.

November 30, 2021 Read more

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.

November 29, 2021 Read more

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.

November 10, 2021 Read more

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.

November 2, 2021 Read more