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Robotic hand with tactile fingertips achieves new dexterity featImproving the dexterity of robot hands could have significant implications for automating tasks such as handling goods for supermarkets or sorting through waste for recycling.... Read more
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Help or hindrance? ER robots have potential to aid health care workersAmid the unpredictability and occasional chaos of emergency rooms, a robot has the potential to assist health care workers and support clinical teamwork, Cornell and Michigan State University researchers found.... Read more
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New work explores optimal circumstances for reaching a common goal with humanoid robotsResearchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have demonstrated that under specific conditions, humans can treat robots as co-authors of the results of their actions. The condition that enables this phenomenon is that a robot behaves in a human-like, social manner. Engaging in gaze contact and... Read more
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Tuning the movement of a self-propelled robot to the physics of living matterRobots are becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, performing jobs that are too dangerous for humans. This can often involve navigating complex environments, something rigid-bodied autonomous robots find difficult. Such robots faced similar challenges when miniaturized and used to model physics of living matter.... Read more
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Waymo robotaxi service opens to all in San FranciscoThe Google-owned Waymo robotaxi service on Tuesday became available to anyone in San Francisco interested in hailing a driverless ride.... Read more
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S. Korea administrative robot defunct after apparent suicideA city council in South Korea said Wednesday their first administrative officer robot was defunct after throwing itself down some stairs, with local media mourning the country's first robot suicide.... Read more
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Engineered skin tissue grants robots special properties and abilitiesResearchers have found a way to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This brings with it potential benefits to robotic platforms such as increased mobility, self-healing abilities, embedded sensing capabilities and an increasingly lifelike appearance.... Read more
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Synergizing sub-symbolic and symbolic AI: Pioneering approach to safe, verifiable humanoid walkingAs sub-symbolic AI, like deep learning, continues to advance, its limitations in safety and reliability are becoming more apparent. Verification and stability are crucial in safety-critical domains such as humanoid robotics, which is rapidly evolving into a versatile tool for various applications. However, proving the correctness of AI-based self-learning algorithms... Read more
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Robots with the secrets of turtles: Reducing the cost of transport through diagonal gaitResearch on energy efficiency enhancement of a tortoise-inspired legged robot, by a research team led by Dongwon Yun, professor at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST, has been featured on the cover of Advanced Intelligent Systems.... Read more
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Meet CARMEN, a robot that helps people with mild cognitive impairmentMeet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation—a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to improve memory, attention, and executive functioning at home.... Read more
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Q&A: Elephants use the tips of their trunks to grasp things with great precision—how this can help robotic design?An elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, communicating, exploring the environment, social behavior, and making and using tools. The trunk, which contains six muscle groups, is not only very strong—it can uproot a tree—but can be used with great precision. Elephants use a number of techniques to grasp... Read more
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A new method to achieve smooth gait transitions in hexapod robotsRobots that can navigate various terrains both rapidly and efficiently could be highly advantageous, as they could successfully complete complex missions in challenging environments. For instance, these robots could help to monitor complex natural environments, such as forests, or could search for survivors after natural disasters.... Read more
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A method to enable safe mobile robot navigation in dynamic environmentsTo successfully complete missions in dynamic and unstructured real-world environments, mobile robots should be able to adapt their actions in real-time to avoid collisions with nearby objects, people or animals.... Read more
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Engineers unlock design for record-breaking robot that could jump twice the height of Big BenEngineers at The University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets to designing a robot capable of jumping 120 meters—higher than any other jumping robot designed to date.... Read more
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New soft robotic gripper designed with graphene and liquid crystalsEindhoven researchers have developed a soft robotic "hand" made from liquid crystals and graphene that could be used to design future surgical robots. The new work has just been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.... Read more