Combining soft artificial muscles with a rigid, magnetic exoskeleton to create building blocks for versatile robots
HEXEL modules snap together to form a long-stroke muscle and multimodal network. Credit: Zachary Yoder / MPI-IS Ellen Rumley / ...
Tag: robots
Task planning framework supports collaborative furniture assembly between humans and robots
Schematic of a complete flow to achieve a collaborative furniture assembly. This work focuses on the components highlighted in red. ...
Combining existing sensors with machine learning algorithms improves robots’ intrinsic sense of touch
The intrinsic sense of touch. Sensitive writing or drawing on the structure (A) is automatically interpreted using convolutional neural networks ...
Versatile microscale robots can bend into 3D shapes and crawl
Kirigami structure of the metabots. Credit: Natural materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02007-7 Researchers at Cornell University have created microscopic robots less ...
Algorithm allows robots to ‘operate on intuition’
Robots play chess against university students and staff. Credit: University of Hertfordshire Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed ...
Ultra-thin multimodal soft robots can explore narrow spaces for inspection and maintenance
Thin-Soft Robot (TS-Robot) concepts for potential applications. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50598-1 Researchers from the University of Nottingham's Rolls-Royce ...
Will Humans Accept Robots That Can Lie? Scientists Find It Depends on the Lie
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Honesty is the best policy…most of the time. Social norms help humans understand when to tell ...
Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses in mushrooms
Credit: Cornell University Building a robot takes time, technical skills, the right materials, and sometimes, a little fungus. In creating ...
Engineers design tiny batteries to power cell-sized robots
The zinc-air battery is 0.1 millimeter long and 0.02 millimeter thick. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology A tiny battery designed ...
A multi-camera differential binocular vision sensor for robots and autonomous systems
Figure summarizing the principle of the sensor. Credit: Yang et al. Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly ...
