A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells. The device, designed and constr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-underwater-robot-energy-efficient-buoyancy.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
A three-year research project at Mid Sweden University has made several advancements in creating the airport of the future with safe and cost-effective solutions, including autonomous measurement...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-swedish-advancements-autonomous-airport-future.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
A new robotic suction cup that can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed by scientists at the University of Bristol. The team, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, studied the ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-octopus-suction-mechanism-robots.html
A team of roboticists at the University of California, Berkeley, reports that it is possible to train robots to do relatively simple tasks by using sim-to-real reinforcement learning to train the...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-sim-real-robots-simple-tasks.html
A team of roboticists and mechanical and aeronautical engineers at Stanford University has developed a spider-like robot for possible use in exploring caves or lava tubes on Mars. In their paper ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-spider-robot-explore-caves-mars.html
Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-printers-robots-soft.html
The electromyographic (EMG) signal is the bioelectrical current generated during muscle contraction. It can be transmitted as an input signal to an intelligent bionic prosthetic hand to control h...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-virtual-dimension-emg-prosthetic-gesture.html
The ability of the human wrist to rotate around the forearm axis in 2 directions is crucial for many daily activities. This rotation, limited to a range of approximately , restricts the wrist's c...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-magneto-pneumatic-hybrid-driven-soft.html
Robots with wheels could potentially navigate a variety of indoor and outdoor environments, traveling for longer distances and with fewer risks of losing balance. While some wheeled robots have a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-rimless-wheel-robot-reliably.html
A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanor and a pleasantly high-pitched voice.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-culturally-insensitive-scientists.html
Talking to a robot often feels stilted or delayed, thanks to computer software trying to keep up with the conversation. However, new research from the University of Waterloo has improved the abil...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-quicken-response-robots-react-human.html
A team of biomedical, mechanical, and aerospace engineers from City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a hopping robot by attaching a spring-...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-adding-telescopic-leg-beneath-quadcopter.html
A team of AI specialists at Google's DeepMind has used machine learning to teach tiny robots to play soccer. They describe the process for developing the robots in Science Robotics.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tiny-ai-robots-remarkable-soccer.html
Smaller batch sizes instead of mass production, more complex production lines, increasing competitive pressure, unstable supply chains: Against this background, the Franco-German research project...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-flexible-energy-consumption.html
An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Waterloo's Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Lab (SIRRL) has found that people prefer interacting with robots they perceive to hav...
New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to a new approach to making chemically complex materials that researchers at the University of Michig...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-battery-robotic-lab-vets-reaction.html
Researchers at Meta AI, Stanford University, Technische, Universität Dresden and the German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ) recently developed DIGIT Pinki, a miniature-sized sensor that can detect...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-miniaturized-vision-based-tactile-sensor.html
Our muscles are nature's perfect actuators—devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more powerful and precise than most synthetic actuators. They can even heal fr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-flexible-skeletons-soft-muscle-powered.html
With rapid developments in artificial intelligence and robot technology, social robots will increasingly be used in society. Robotics researcher Chinmaya Mishra looked at the importance of gaze d...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-eye-facial-robots-essential-interaction.html
Climbing robots could have many valuable real-world applications, ranging from the completion of maintenance tasks on roofs or other tall structures to the delivery of parcels or survival kits in...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-fusion-slam-localization-capabilities-biped.html
The effective operation of robots from a distance, also known as teleoperation, could allow humans to complete a vast range of manual tasks remotely, including risky and complex procedures. Yet t...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scalable-learningbased-framework-teleoperation-humanoid.html
Elon Musk revealed Friday that Tesla will pull back the curtain on a robotaxi this summer, news that comes as the adoption of self-driving vehicles hits speed bumps over safety concerns.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-elon-musk-tesla-unveil-robotaxi.html
Robotic systems have so far been primarily deployed in warehouses, airports, malls, offices, and other indoor environments, where they assist humans with basic manual tasks or answer simple queri...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-framework-air-ground-robot-complex.html
Apple engineers are working on making personal robots, a report said on Wednesday, just weeks after the iPhone-maker abandoned its efforts to develop an electric car.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-apple-explores-personal-robots.html