Robotics

Side view of a swimming biobot developed at IBEC, consisting of a muscle cell-laden hydrogel and a spring-like skeleton. These biobots can self-train, showing surprising speed and strength. Credit: IBEC A team of researchers working at Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology has developed a skeletal-muscle-based, biohybrid soft robot that...

Autonomous aerial robot searching for fires in a building façade during the MBZIRC’20 competition. Top: Picture of the robot in front of the facade. Bottom: 3D map of the environment used for localization. Credit: Caballero & Merino. To enable the efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in instances where...

Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of the highway? In a study published April 21st in the journal iScience, Italian researchers designed a robot that "thinks out loud" so that users can hear...

Credit: University of Twente Researchers at the University of Twente have discovered that primary school children in both regular and special needs schools make strides when they learn together with a robot. On 30 April, both Daniel Davison and Bob Schadenberg will obtain their Ph.D.s from UT, with comparable research...

Five robots in a flexible pentagonal formation squeezing through a narrow pathway. Credit: Dr. Rohith G & Prof. Madhu Vadali. Multi-robot systems have recently been used to tackle a variety of real-world problems, for instance, helping human users to monitor environments and access secluded locations. In order to navigate unknown...

Army researchers create a novel approach that allows autonomous systems to flexibly interpret and respond to Soldier intent. Credit: (1st Lt. Angelo Mejia) Spoken dialogue is the most natural way for people to interact with complex autonomous agents such as robots. Future Army operational environments will require technology that allows...

The cheetah's aerodynamic drag tail allows it to demonstrate tremendous precision and maneuverability at high speeds. Can we translate this performance to a tail for a robot? Credit: University of Cape Town From lizards to kangaroos, many animals with tails possess an agility that allows them to turn or self-right...

Baubot robot. Credit: Baubot Despite artificial intelligence and robotics adapting to many other areas of life and the work force, construction has long remained dominated by humans in neon caps and vests. Now, the robotics company Baubot has developed a Printstones robot, which they hope to supplement human construction workers...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University's acclaimed snake-like robot can now slither its way underwater, allowing the modular robotics platform to inspect ships, submarines and infrastructure for damage. A team from the Biorobotics Lab in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute tested the Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake...

Credit: arXiv:2103.14295 A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has built a two-legged robot with t he ability to teach itself to walk using reinforcement learning. The team has written a paper describing their work and has uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server. The work...

Credit: Shutterstock Robots are writing more of what we read on the internet. And artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools are becoming freely available for anyone, including students, to use. In a period of rapid change, there are enormous ethical implications for post-human authorship—in which humans and machines collaborate. The study...

Credit: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Biologists have long experienced the challenges of documenting ocean life, with many species of fish proving quite sensitive to the underwater movements of humans. As a possible solution, computer scientists have been developing special marine robots that can stealthily move among their...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If a robot worker makes a mistake on the job, or annoys customers, businesses may not give it a pink slip and a cardboard box for its office belongings, but companies may be forced to shut down these expensive machines, according to a team of researchers....

The high-tech hound uses sensors and AI to 'hear' and 'see' its environment - and can even be taken for walks It's whip fast, obeys commands and doesn't leave unpleasant surprises on the floor—meet the AlphaDog, a robotic response to two of China's burgeoning loves: pets and technology. The high-tech...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain It is more complicated than copy and paste, but digital twins could be the way of future manufacturing according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They developed a virtual environment based on human-robot interactions that can mirror the physical set up of a welder and...

KTH researcher Hongyi Liu tests a robot arm by placing his hand in its path. Credit: Hongyi Liu Working safely is not only about processes, but context—understanding the work environment and circumstances, and being able to predict what other people will do next. A new system empowers robots with this...

The Mini Cheetah is guiding a blindfolded person to avoid obstacles with leash-guided assistance: a leash (top right) is used to connect between the robot and the human, a 2D LiDAR is used for robot localization and a depth camera is used for human detection (middle right). The leash could...

The close-up of the head of Sophia is seen at Hanson Robotics studio in Hong Kong on March 29, 2021. Sophia is a robot of many talents, she speaks, jokes, sings and even makes art. In March, she caused a stir in the art world when a digital work she...

MIT researchers developed a picking robot that combines vision with radio frequency (RF) sensing to find and grasps objects, even if they’re hidden from view. The technology could aid fulfilment in e-commerce warehouses. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell....

Illustration of a future scenario of adopting dual-responsive neutrobots for targeted drug therapy in the treatment of malignant gliomas. Credit: Kellie Holoski / Science Robotics A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology along with partners at the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, both in China,...