Robotics News
May 7, 2025
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May 7, 2025 — A research team develops disinfection robot combining physical wiping and UV-C ...
May 6, 2025 — While service robots with male characteristics can be more persuasive when interacting with some women who have a low sense of decision-making power, 'cute' design features -- such as big eyes and raised cheeks -- affect both men and women ...
May 5, 2025 — Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the robotic skin ...
May 5, 2025 — Computer scientists have developed a new AI text-to-video model that learns real-world physics knowledge from time-lapse ...
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May 5, 2025 — Researchers developed a framework to enable decentralized artificial intelligence-based building automation with a focus on privacy. The system enables AI-powered devices like cameras and interfaces ...
May 1, 2025 — A next-generation technology developed in 2023, conversational swarm intelligence (CSI), combines the principles of ASI with the power of large ...
May 1, 2025 — Estimating the pose of hand-held objects is a critical and challenging problem in robotics and computer vision. While leveraging multi-modal RGB and ...
May 1, 2025 — While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers developed a more efficient way to control the outputs of a large language model, guiding it to generate text that adheres to a certain structure, like a programming language, and remains ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study. A combination of electromyography and force ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...
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Apr. 23, 2025 — After uncovering a unifying algorithm that links more than 20 common machine-learning approaches, researchers organized them into a 'periodic table of machine learning' that can help ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Most people generally are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence than they are about a theoretical future in which AI threatens humanity. A new study reveals that ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — A powerful clinical artificial intelligence tool developed by biomedical informatics researchers has demonstrated remarkable accuracy on all three parts of the United States Medical Licensing Exam ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — A team has developed an explainable AI model for automatic collision avoidance between ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Do physicians or artificial intelligence (AI) offer better treatment recommendations for patients examined through a virtual urgent care setting? A new study shows physicians and AI models have ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classic 'nature versus nurture' question. The research ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — When we move, it's harder for existing wearable devices to accurately track our heart activity. But researchers found that a starfish's five-arm shape helps solve this problem. Inspired by ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — AI mental health apps may offer a cheap and accessible way to fill the gaps in the overstretched U.S. mental health care system, but ethics experts warn that we need to be thoughtful about how we use ...
Mar. 28, 2025 — Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers has programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial ...
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 ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could revolutionize early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers. The team say this is the first time it has ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — A new study shows that people in Japan treat robots and AI agents more respectfully than people in Western ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- 'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery
- Current AI Risks More Alarming Than Apocalyptic Future Scenarios
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Robot See, Robot Do: System Learns After Watching How-to Videos
- AI Tool Grounded in Evidence-Based Medicine Outperformed Other AI Tools -- And Most Doctors On USMLE Exams
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- A New Robotic Gripper Made of Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking
- Hopping Gives This Tiny Robot a Leg Up
- 3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
- How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?
- Artificial Intelligence Has Potential to Aid Physician Decisions During Virtual Urgent Care
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Revolutionizing Touch: Researchers Explore the Future of Wearable Multi-Sensory Haptic Technology
- These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Coffee-Making Robot Breaks New Ground for AI Machines
- 'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
Monday, March 17, 2025
- New AI Model Analyzes Full Night of Sleep With High Accuracy in Largest Study of Its Kind
- Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots
- Magnetic Microalgae on a Mission to Become Robots
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm With His Thoughts
- Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs
- AI Has 'great Potential' For Detecting Wildfires, New Study of the Amazon Rainforest Suggests
- Artificial Muscles for Tremor Suppression
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Scientists Develop Open-Source Software for Modeling Soft Materials
- Are Robotic Hernia Repairs Still in the 'learning Curve' Phase?
- My Compliments to the Chef: Researcher Studies Robots in the Kitchen
- Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot
- Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- A New Model Accurately Predicts the Movement of Elite Athletes to Catch the Ball in Parabolic Flight
- AI Tool Mimics Radiologist Gaze to Read Chest X-Rays
Friday, February 21, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms
- Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Topology Drives Complexity in Brain, Climate, and AI
- A Robust and Adaptive Controller for Ballbots
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Adults Don't Trust Health Care to Use AI Responsibly and Without Harm
- Scientists Optimize Biohybrid Ray Development With Machine Learning
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Combining Millions of Years of Evolution With Tech Wizardry: The Cyborg Cockroach
- Research Uses AI to Make Infrastructure More Resilient, Sustainable
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Great Barrier Reef?
- Biohybrid Hand Gestures With Human Muscles
- Scientists Develop Novel Self-Healing Electronic Skin for Health Monitoring
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Truly Autonomous AI Is on the Horizon
- Scientists Enhance Smart Home Security With AIoT and WiFi
- People's Trust in AI Systems to Make Moral Decisions Is Still Some Way Off
Monday, February 3, 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Recommendations for Studying the Impact of AI on Young People's Mental Health
- Neuromorphic Semiconductor Chip That Learns and Corrects Itself?
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- Fine-Tuned Brain-Computer Interface Makes Prosthetic Limbs Feel More Real
- Autonomous AI Assistant to Build Nanostructures
- Robots Should Be Repurposed Rather Than Recycled to Combat Rising Scale of E-Waste, Scientists Warn
- Wearable Devices Can Detect and Predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flare-Ups
- Innovative 6D Pose Dataset Sets New Standard for Robotic Grasping Performance
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- This Fast and Agile Robotic Insect Could Someday Aid in Mechanical Pollination
- A New Research Program Is Indigenizing Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
- Using Robots in Nursing Homes Linked to Higher Employee Retention, Better Patient Care
- AI Predicts Cancer Prognoses, Responses to Treatment
- Electrohydraulic Wearable Devices Create Unprecedented Haptic Sensations
Thursday, January 2, 2025
- How Does a Hula Hoop Master Gravity? Mathematicians Prove That Shape Matters
- Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms Improve Medical Image Analysis
Friday, December 27, 2024
- Virus That Threatened Humanity Opens the Future
- Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Breakthrough in Technology for Lifelike Facial Expressions in Androids
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Machine Psychology: A Bridge to General AI?
- Laser-Based Artificial Neuron Mimics Nerve Cell Functions at Lightning Speed
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
- New Shape-Changing Polymer Developed
- Bird-Inspired Drone Can Jump for Take-Off
- Researchers Innovate Scalable Robotic Fibers With Light-Emitting, Self-Healing and Magnetic Properties
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Smallest Walking Robot Makes Microscale Measurements
- Innovative Robot Navigation Inspired by Brain Function Boosts Efficiency and Accuracy