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New soft robot morphs from a ground to air vehicle using liquid metal
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
If this mechanism was designed by a team at Virginia Tech led by Michael Bartlett, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, you would see a new approach f...
AI 'ageism' could seriously impact elderly health: WHO
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
AI technologies hold enormous potential for improving care for older people, but they also carry significant risk, the UN health agency said in a policy brief. ...
Towards self-sensing soft robots with electrochemically driven pumps
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
This is where "soft" robots have the upper hand. Made of materials called "elastomers" (materials with high viscosity and elasticity), soft robots absorb shocks...
Former NASA official starts company to put robotic spacecraft in orbit
Feb 04, 2022 (UPI)
The eventual goal is to provide easier and cheaper access to space while also limiting debris in Earth's orbit, Steve Jurczyk, Quantum CEO, told UPI in an inter...
People prefer interacting with female robots in hotels
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
The study, which surveyed about 170 people on hypothetical service robot scenarios, also found that the preference was stronger when the robots were described a...
Northrop Grumman to Develop Prototype Artificial Intelligence Assistant
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the University of Central Florida (UCF), will develop an Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant (OCAR...
Kirigami robotic grippers are delicate enough to lift egg yolks
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
The work draws on the art of kirigami, which involves both cutting and folding two-dimensional (2D) sheets of material to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes. Sp...
Enabling artificial intelligence on satellites
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
To enable a large-scale use of Artificial Intelligence in orbit, RUAG Space, Europe's leading supplier to the space industry, and Stream Analyze, recognized as ...
How robots learn to hike
Jan 22, 2022 (SPX)
This is made possible by a new control technology, which researchers at ETH Zurich led by robotics professor Marco Hutter recently presented in the journal Scie...
Researchers teach a robotic arm to autonomously push and pick random objects
Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)
Thanks to a new machine learning approach that enables robotic arm to separate out piles of objects, recognize the individual objects, and grasp the desired one...
Carnegie Mellon-led team to develop robotics to service satellites and build structures
Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)
It's launch once, use once. But as satellites have become more robust, their operators often find that fleets outlast their projected lifespans and need new tec...
Bone growth inspired microrobots that can create their own bone
Jan 18, 2022 (SPX)
When we are born, we have gaps in our skulls that are covered by pieces of soft connective tissue called fontanelles. It is thanks to fontanelles that our skull...
From space to the road - 10 years of ROboMObil
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
This is how one of the world's first robotic electric vehicles was created in Oberpfaffenhofen. It can drive autonomously, turn within its own length and move s...
RACER revs up for checkered flag goal of high-speed, off-road autonomy
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
The DARPA RACER program's goal is to develop and demonstrate autonomy technologies that enable unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to maneuver in unstructured off-r...
Synthesis too slow? Let this robot do it
Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)
By automating the process of synthesizing CPP-conjugated peptide-nucleic acids (PPNAs) using the robot dubbed "Tiny Tides" by the research team, typical PPNA sy...
How scientists designed the controllers for robot manipulators in the space station?
Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)
The high accuracy and dynamic performance of the manipulator are the necessary conditions for the successful completion of these tasks, which can often be maint...
Tiangong's robotic arm performs well in test
Jan 07, 2022 (XNA)
In a statement, the agency said that the arm secured the robotic cargo craft early on Thursday morning and began to move it to a new position at 6:12 am. Tianzh...
Callisto Technology Demonstration to Fly Aboard Orion for Artemis I
Jan 06, 2022 (SPX)
Named after a mythological Greek goddess and one of Artemis' hunting attendants, Callisto is meant to show how commercial technology could assist future astrona...
Robot tractors may be heading to a farm near you
Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)
Venerable American farm equipment manufacturer John Deere and French agricultural robot start-up Naio debuted their latest innovations at the Consumer Electroni...
Creepy meets cool in humanoid robots at CES tech show
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
"Oh! The eyes are very scary," said Marcelo Humerez, an exhibitor from Peru who happened upon the Pedia-Roid, which is designed for medical training, as its eye...
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