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April 3, 2025

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A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin

Mar. 27, 2025 — Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks ...

Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents

Mar. 26, 2025 — A new study shows that people in Japan treat robots and AI agents more respectfully than people in Western ...

These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer

Mar. 25, 2025 — This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one ...

Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI

Mar. 18, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers say a true revolution in wireless technologies is only possible through endowing the system with the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) that can think, imagine, and plan akin to humans. Doing so will allow ...

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Coffee-Making Robot Breaks New Ground for AI Machines

Mar. 18, 2025 — An AI-powered robot that can prepare cups of coffee in a busy kitchen could usher in the next generation of intelligent machines, a study ...

'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images

Mar. 18, 2025 — Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By ...

Squirrel-Inspired Leaping Robot Can Stick a Landing on a Branch

Mar. 19, 2025 — A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...

Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots

Mar. 17, 2025 — Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be ...

Are Robotic Hernia Repairs Still in the 'Learning Curve' Phase?

Mar. 5, 2025 — Cutting edge technology may come with ...

Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs

Mar. 6, 2025 — Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...

Artificial Muscles for Tremor Suppression

Mar. 6, 2025 — Scientists have developed a biorobotic arm that can mirror human tremors, such as those experienced by individuals that live with Parkinson's disease. Artificial muscles on either side of the forearm ...

Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm With His Thoughts

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...

My Compliments to the Chef: Researcher Studies Robots in the Kitchen

Mar. 5, 2025 — Walking into your favorite restaurant and seeing a robot chef in the kitchen may seem far-fetched, but new research suggests that bots could be a solution to persistent labor shortages in the ...

Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'Knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human

Mar. 5, 2025 — Engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully ...

New Computer Vision System Can Guide Specialty Crops Monitoring

Mar. 4, 2025 — Soilless growing systems inside greenhouses, known as controlled environment agriculture, promise to advance the year-round production of high-quality specialty crops, according to an ...

Study Shines Headlights on Consumer Driverless Vehicle Safety Deficiencies

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that multicolored stickers applied to stop or speed limit signs on the roadside can 'confuse' self-driving vehicles, causing unpredictable and possibly ...

Researchers Unveil Neuromorphic Exposure Control System to Improve Machine Vision in Extreme Lighting Environments

Mar. 4, 2025 — A research team has recently developed a groundbreaking neuromorphic exposure control (NEC) system that revolutionizes machine vision under extreme lighting variations. This biologically inspired ...

A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot

Feb. 26, 2025 — Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes ...

Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage

Feb. 26, 2025 — A bioinspired robot can change shape to alter its own physical properties in response to its environment, resulting in a robust and efficient autonomous vehicle as well as a fresh approach to robotic ...

AI Generates Playful, Human-Like Games

Feb. 26, 2025 — A team of scientists has now created a computer model that can represent and generate human-like goals by learning from how people create games. The work could lead to AI systems that better ...

Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of ...

AI Tool Mimics Radiologist Gaze to Read Chest X-Rays

Feb. 25, 2025 — Most AI diagnostic tools are black boxes, but the approach allows doctors and patients to understand how the computer reached a ...

How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material

Feb. 21, 2025 — Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by ...

AI Unlocks the Emotional Language of Animals

Feb. 21, 2025 — Groundbreaking study shows machine learning can decode emotions in seven ungulate species. A game-changer for animal welfare? Can artificial intelligence help us understand what animals feel? A ...

Predator Robots Help Researchers Uncover How Larval Zebrafish Rapidly Learn

Feb. 20, 2025 — A novel system that chases larval zebrafish around an arena with predator robots is enabling scientists to understand how these days-old fish quickly learn in the real ...

A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms

Feb. 19, 2025 — Engineers have developed a versatile swimming robot that nimbly navigates cluttered water surfaces. Inspired by marine flatworms, the innovative device offers new possibilities for environmental ...

Like Human Brains, Large Language Models Reason About Diverse Data in a General Way

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans reason about complex problems. Like humans, LLMs ...

Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Topology Drives Complexity in Brain, Climate, and AI

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. This pioneering study establishes the new field of higher-order topological dynamics, revealing how the hidden ...

A Robust and Adaptive Controller for Ballbots

Feb. 19, 2025 — Ballbots are versatile robotic systems with the ability to move around in all directions. This makes it tricky to control their movement. In a recent study, a team has proposed a novel proportional ...

Combining Millions of Years of Evolution With Tech Wizardry: The Cyborg Cockroach

Feb. 13, 2025 — A research team has developed two new autonomous navigation systems for cyborg insects to better navigate unknown, complex environments. The algorithms utilized only simple circuits that leveraged ...

Truly Autonomous AI Is on the Horizon

Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new AI algorithm, called Torque Clustering, that significantly improves how AI systems independently learn and uncover patterns in data, without human ...

Scientists Enhance Smart Home Security With AIoT and WiFi

Feb. 10, 2025 — Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is becoming immensely popular because of its widespread applications. In a groundbreaking study, researchers present a new AIoT framework called MSF-Net for ...

Physician's Medical Decisions Benefit from Chatbot, Study Suggests

Feb. 10, 2025 — A study showed that chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions, but when supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the ...

User-Friendly System Can Help Developers Build More Efficient Simulations and AI Models

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers developed an automated system to help programmers increase the efficiency of their deep learning algorithms by simultaneously leveraging two types of redundancy in complex data ...