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Octopus inspires new suction mechanism for robots
Suction cup grasping a stone – Image credit: Tianqi Yue The team, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, studied the structures of octopus biological suckers, which have superb adaptive suction abilities enabling […]
AI holidays 2023
Thanks to those that sent and suggested AI and robotics-themed holiday videos, images, and stories. Here’s a sample to get you into the spirit this season. Josh Miller used ChatGPT […]
Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives
By Farshad Arvin, Martin Stefanec, and Tomas Krajnik Be it the news or the dwindling number of creatures hitting your windscreens, it will not have evaded you that the insect […]
Using language to give robots a better grasp of an open-ended world
Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation (F3RM) enables robots to interpret open-ended text prompts using natural language, helping the machines manipulate unfamiliar objects. The system’s 3D feature fields could be helpful […]
AAAI Fall Symposium: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira on human-robot interaction design
Anton Grabolle / Better Images of AI / Human-AI collaboration / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 The AAAI Fall Symposium Series took place in Arlington, USA, and comprised seven different symposia. […]
Do humans get lazier when robots help with tasks?
Image/Shutterstock.com By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer ‘Social loafing’ is a phenomenon which happens when members of a team start to put less effort in because they know others […]
Goal representations for instruction following
By Andre He, Vivek Myers A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has the […]
New technique helps robots pack objects into a tight space
MIT researchers are using generative AI models to help robots more efficiently solve complex object manipulation problems, such as packing a box with different objects. Image: courtesy of the researchers. […]
Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
MIT researchers have developed a camera-based touch sensor that is long, curved, and shaped like a human finger. Their device, which provides high-resolution tactile sensing over a large area, could […]
Soft robotic tool provides new ‘eyes’ in endovascular surgery
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a soft robotic tool that promises to one day transform minimally invasive endovascular surgery. The two-part magnetic […]