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- 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”
- 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
- This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical . . .
Caption: The new design also has enough free space that the robot could carry tiny batteries or sensors, which could enable it to fly on its own outside the lab ↓ Download Image Caption : The revamped robot is designed to boost flight precision and agility while minimizing the mechanical stress on its artificial wing flexures, which enables faster maneuvers, increased endurance, and a longer lifespan
- 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
- 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 ”
- 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 ”
- New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds
Their approach enables a robot to “think ahead” by evaluating thousands of possible solutions in parallel and then refining the best ones to meet the constraints of the robot and its environment Instead of testing each potential action one at a time, like many existing approaches, this new method considers thousands of actions simultaneously, solving multistep manipulation problems in a matter of seconds
- 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
- Humanoid robots offer disruption and promise. Heres why
A humanoid robot is, unsurprisingly, a robot shaped like a human that mimics the movements of the human body As a type of professional service robot, it is built to work alongside people, thereby boosting productivity in various settings
- Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures April 2, 2025 Read full story →
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