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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels
- Robotics news, features and articles - Live Science
Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles
- Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous machines | Live . . .
Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, and robotic dogs
- Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches . . . - MIT News
A 3D-printed robotic arm holds a pencil as it trains using random movements and a single camera — part of a new control system called Neural Jacobian Fields (NJF) Rather than relying on sensors or hand-coded models, NJF allows robots to learn how their bodies move in response to motor commands purely from visual observation, offering a pathway to more flexible, affordable, and self-aware
- Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic skin . . .
Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings
- A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations These machines are used for a variety of applications — from electronics assembly to packaging, bin picking, and even inspection — but many current pick-and-place solutions are limited Current solutions lack “precise generalization,” or the ability to solve many tasks
- A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement
The new bionic knee can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional prosthesis The new system is directly integrated with the user’s muscle and bone tissue (bottom row right) This enables greater stability and gives the user much more control over the movement of the prosthesis
- This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical . . .
New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables
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