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RoboBee sticks the landing – Ars Technica
The RoboBee is only slightly larger than a penny. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory The first…
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Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots
Not quite robotic Given that each fly could act a bit like a writing implement,…
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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey
It's well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their…
A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with…
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Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without damage
On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics…
iRobot says there is “substantial doubt” about it as a “going concern”
But both EU regulators and the US Federal Trade Commission expressed concerns over not just…
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Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling
Plans for 279 robots to start While the Protoclone is a twitching, dangling robotic prototype…
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To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
The third neural net was relatively simple and processed language using vectorized representations of those…
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This mantis shrimp-inspired robotic arm can crack an egg
This isn't the first time scientists have looked to the mantis shrimp as an inspiration…
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Robotic hand helps pianists overcome “ceiling effect”
Fast and complex multi-finger movements generated by the hand exoskeleton. Credit: Shinichi Furuya Fast and…