- Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up - MIT News
The robot can jump about 20 centimeters into the air, or four times its height, at a lateral speed of about 30 centimeters per second, and has no trouble hopping across ice, wet surfaces, and uneven soil, or even onto a hovering drone All the while, the hopping robot consumes about 60 percent less energy than its flying cousin
- What is a robot? - New Scientist
The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”
- This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical . . .
“This new robot platform is a major result from our group and leads to many exciting directions For example, incorporating sensors, batteries, and computing capabilities on this robot will be a central focus in the next three to five years,” Chen says
- New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds
A user could incorporate different skill types into the system to expand a robot’s capabilities automatically In the future, the researchers want to leverage large language models and vision language models within cuTAMP, enabling a robot to formulate and execute a plan that achieves specific objectives based on voice commands from a user
- Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans . . .
Overall, the robot was able to predict a human’s objective with 90 percent accuracy and to identify relevant objects with 96 percent accuracy The method also improved a robot’s safety, reducing the number of collisions by more than 60 percent, compared to carrying out the same tasks without applying the new method
- A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
The robot has a built-in camera and motion sensors so that first responders could “scope out a site, before sending rescue teams in to save survivors ” The robot operates with a “soft, air-inflated tube that unfolds into small spaces,” explains WHDH “It can maneuver around sharp corners in disaster zones ”
- Humanoid robot learns to waltz by mirroring peoples movements
An AI that helps humanoid robots mirror a person’s movement could allow robots to walk, dance and fight in more convincingly human ways The most agile and fluid robotic movements, such as
- Expanding robot perception - MIT News
“I have 2-year-old twin daughters, and I see them manipulating objects, carrying 10 different toys at a time, navigating across cluttered rooms with ease, and quickly adapting to new environments Robot perception cannot yet match what a toddler can do,” Carlone says “But we have new tools in the arsenal And the future is bright ”
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