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5 days ago · 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 …
Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar ...
Aug 8, 2024 · The robot, which has an arm attached to its back, completed manipulation tasks after practicing for a few hours. In one demonstration, the robot learned how to securely place …
MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots
Aug 15, 2024 · A zinc-air microbattery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other …
Robot facts - Live Science
Apr 30, 2025 · The smallest humanoid robot: Mitsuya Tatsuhiko's tiny humanoid robot, which measures just 2.27 inches (57.676 millimeters) tall The most powerful robot: Titan , a robot …
A technique for more effective multipurpose robots - MIT News
Jun 3, 2024 · MIT researchers developed a technique to combine robotics training data across domains, modalities, and tasks using generative AI models. They create a combined strategy …
17 weird, wonderful and terrifying robots we saw at CES 2025 — …
Jan 10, 2025 · The maker of one of the fastest humanoid robots in the world came to CES 2025 in Las Vegas to showcase its latest models, including a rather eerie quadruped robot — …
A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots
Oct 28, 2024 · At the same time, each robot is mechanically unique, with a different number and orientation of arms, grippers, and sensors. Plus, the environments where data are collected …
Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping …
Apr 24, 2025 · 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 …
Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up - MIT News
Apr 9, 2025 · The researchers put the hopping robot, and its control mechanism, to the test on a variety of surfaces, including grass, ice, wet glass, and uneven soil — it successfully traversed …