ROBODAILY

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Third and fourth robotic arms feel like a part of the user's own body
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
Doctoral student Ken Arai and Professor Masahiko Inami from the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with researchers from Keio University and Toyohashi Univer...
Humans in the loop help robots find their way
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
The peer-reviewed study led by computer scientists Lydia Kavraki and Vaibhav Unhelkar and co-lead authors Carlos Quintero-Pena and Constantinos Chamzas of Rice'...
Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds
Jun 29, 2022 (JPL)
That's the vision of Ethan Schaler, a robotics mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, whose Sensing With Independent Mi...
Humans explaining self-explaining machines
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
'The double-meaning of the name of our conference, "Explaining Machines," expresses these various possibilities: machines explaining themselves, humans explaini...
Are babies the key to the next generation of artificial intelligence
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
The research, published in the journal 'Nature Machine Intelligence', examines the neuroscience and psychology of infant learning and distils three principles t...
Baby's kick in the womb may be key to treating disease and training robots
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers Henrik Jorntell, Professor, and Jonas M.D. Enander, Post-doctoral Fellow at Lund University, Sweden, and Gerald E. Loeb, Professor of Biomedical Eng...
Tiny fish-shaped robot 'swims' around picking up microplastics
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
Because microplastics can fall into cracks and crevices, they've been hard to remove from aquatic environments. One solution that's been proposed is using small...
Can robotics help us achieve sustainable development?
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
Their findings identify key opportunities and key threats that need to be considered while developing, deploying and governing robotics and autonomous systems'....
AI Improves Robotic Performance in DARPA's Machine Common Sense Program
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
Using only simulated training, recent MCS experiments demonstrated advancements in systems' abilities - ranging from understanding how to grasp objects and adap...
Robotic lightning bugs take flight
Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)
These glimmering bugs also sparked the inspiration of scientists at MIT. Taking a cue from nature, they built electroluminescent soft artificial muscles for fly...
MIT engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system
Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)
Each of these robotic systems is a product of an ad hoc design process specific to that particular system. In designing an autonomous robot, engineers must run ...
Scientists craft living human skin for robots
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
"The finger looks slightly 'sweaty' straight out of the culture medium," says first author Shoji Takeuchi, a professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. "Since...
Italy's Pompeii tests new guard dog -- a robot named Spot
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
Meet Spot, a friendly, yellow-and-black remote-controlled creature with a gangly gait who looks like a dog crossed with an insect -- all wrapped up in a robot's...
DARPA's ANSR to Improving Trustworthy AI
Jun 07, 2022 (SPX)
The reasons for this are twofold. First, data-driven ML lacks transparency, interpretability, and robustness and has unsustainable computational and data needs....
Nanostructured fibers can impersonate human muscles
Jun 06, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State University have created a new type of fiber that can perform like a muscle actuator, in many way...
Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump. The researchers also developed millimeter-sized robots resembling ...
Twisted soft robots navigate mazes without human or computer guidance
May 24, 2022 (SPX)
"These soft robots demonstrate a concept called 'physical intelligence,' meaning that structural design and smart materials are what allow the soft robot to nav...
Using everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
The technology consists of sensors that use WiFi signals to help the robot map where it's going. It's a new approach to indoor robot navigation. Most systems re...
Charting a safe course through a highly uncertain environment
May 19, 2022 (SPX)
With so much uncertainty, how can the spacecraft plot a trajectory that will keep it from being squashed by some randomly moving obstacle or blown off course by...
'Chariots of Fire' and 'Blade Runner' composer Vangelis dies aged 79
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
According to several Greek media outlets, Vangelis died of the coronavirus in France where he lived part-time, as well as in London and Athens. "Vangelis Papath...
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