"I'll have you eating out of the palm of my hand" is an unlikely utterance you'll hear from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-robotic-palm-sophisticated-tactile-sensors.html
Researchers Indrek Must and Kadri-Ann Valdur of the Institute of Technology of the University of Tartu have created a robot leg modeled after the leg of a cucumber spider. The soft robot created ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-scientists-soft-robot-mimics-spider.html
A team of engineers and roboticists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed an electronic compound eye design to give robots the ability to swarm efficiently and inexpensi...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-compound-eye-inexpensive-robots-insect.html
A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a drone that flies autonomously using neuromorphic image processing and control based on the workings of animal brains. Anima...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-animal-brain-ai-game-changer.html
Brain-machine interfaces are devices that enable direct communication between a brain's electrical activity and an external device such as a computer or a robotic limb that allows people to contr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-biohybrid-robotic-unravel-complex-sensation.html
Research at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet could pave the way for a prosthetic hand and robot to be able to feel touch like a human hand. Their study has been published in the journ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-artificial-tactile-robots-fast-humans.html
A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-snail-robot-climb-walls.html
Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as w...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-cat-collaboration-robots.html
Imagine a slime-like robot that can seamlessly change its shape to squeeze through narrow spaces, which could be deployed inside the human body to remove an unwanted item.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-shifting-soft-robots.html
Cornell researchers have developed a robotic feeding system that uses computer vision, machine learning and multimodal sensing to safely feed people with severe mobility limitations, including th...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-robotic-people-severe-mobility-limitations.html
An international group of researchers has created a new approach to imitating human motion by combining central pattern generators (CPGs) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The method not onl...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-approach-generative-ai-imitate-human.html
Getting robots to perform even a simple task requires a great deal of behind-the-scenes work. Part of the challenge is planning and executing movements, everything from turning wheels to lifting ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-robots-trajectories.html
When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-video-swarms-miniature-robots-simultaneously.html
A team of roboticists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has created a robot snail with a helmet-like shell that moves by rolling around on bulldozer-like tracks. They have published a paper ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-scientists-robot-snails-independently-tracks.html
Engineers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have combined ancient paper-folding and modern materials science to create a soft robot that bends and twists through mazes with ease.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-caterpillar-robot-segments-reassembles-hauls.html
A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-stretchable-skin-robots-human-sensitivity.html
Northwestern University engineers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm designed specifically for smart robotics. By helping robots rapidly and reliably learn complex skills...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-random-robots-reliable-ai-algorithm.html
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly useful for programming and robotics tasks, but for more complicated reasoning problems, the gap between these systems and humans looms large...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-natural-language-boosts-llm-coding.html
Robots have already proved to be promising tools to complete complex and demanding maintenance tasks. While engineers have developed a wide range of robots that could help to maintain and repair ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-miniature-wireless-robot-effectively-tubular.html
Over the past decade, researchers all around the world have been finding new and exciting use cases for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Commonly called "drones," UAVs have proved their worth acr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-paper-power-origami-technology-quadcopters.html
A four-legged robot trained with machine learning by EPFL researchers has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking—a milestone for roboticists a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-reveal-emergence-animal-gait.html
The development and testing of algorithms for robotics applications typically requires evaluations in both simulated and physical environments. Some algorithms, however, can be difficult to deplo...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-miniature-car-robot-algorithms.html
Over the past decades, dozens of animal species have become extinct, while thousands of others are now at risk of disappearing. Endangered species include various pollinators, including bees and ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-armed-robot-precision-pollination.html
Creating robots to safely aid disaster victims is one challenge; executing flexible robot control that takes advantage of the material's softness is another. The use of pliable soft materials to ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-built-bionic-method-pneumatic-artificial.html
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and robots are becoming increasingly advanced, exhibiting capabilities that vaguely resemble those of humans. The growing similarities between AIs and huma...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-explores-human-machines-eerie.html
Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested many millions of research dollars in attempts to create a robot that can walk or run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case tha...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-outrun-animals.html
No crystal ball is needed to envision a future that engineers have in mind, one in which air taxis and other flying vehicles ferry passengers between urban locations, avoiding the growing gridloc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-virtual-sensors-aerial-vehicles-stay.html
It takes a village to nurture social robots. Researchers who develop social robots—ones that people interact with—focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, lik...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-people-features-robot-social.html
Four-legged robots, also known as quadrupedal robots, have advantageous characteristics, including the ability to rapidly walk on challenging terrains and keep a low center of gravity. Some four-...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-dexterous-legged-robot-simultaneously.html
EPFL researchers are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the ne...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ink-3d-flexible-devices-mechanical.html