An MIT research team has developed an AI technique that allows robots to manipulate objects with their entire hand or body, instead of just their fingertips.  The post MIT researchers help robots use their whole body to manipulate objects appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a powerful open-source platform for robotics research, but until recently it lacked industrial-quality hardware that is tightly integrated with the ROS software stack. Robot equipment manufacturers use proprietary, closed-source software and control systems for their manipulators, leaving researchers with a steep hill to climb in order to use ROS […]

The age of humanoids is just around the corner. Humanoids are a subset of robotics that feature a bipedal (two legs) design, functional arms and “hands,” a torso and a head. It’s not necessary for these robots to recreate human hands and fingers, but rather to be able to interact with a world designed for […]

Researchers at EPFL, a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed a robotic system that allows surgeons to perform laparoscopic surgeries with four arms by controlling two robotic arms using haptic foot interfaces. The results were published in The International Journal of Robotics Research. The post This system allows surgeons to perform surgery with four arms […]

MIT scientists have created tiny, soft-bodied robots that can be controlled with a weak magnet. The robots are formed from rubbery magnetic spirals and can be programmed to walk, crawl, and swim in response to an easy-to-apply magnetic field.  The post These tiny soft robots can be controlled with weak magnets appeared first on The […]

Something’s been forgotten in the race to build general-purpose humanoid robots. Roboticists are forgetting to answer this basic question: What does it mean to be general purpose? The post Evolving humanoid robotic dexterity from toddler to adult appeared first on The Robot Report.

A group of researchers at MIT have developed a framework that could help robots learn faster in new environments without needing a user to have technical knowledge. This technique helps users without technical knowledge understand why a robot might have failed to perform a task and then allows them to fine-tune the robot with minimal […]

The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) and Intuition Robotics announced the continuation of their partnership that began in May 2022, and new data showing the positive effects of ElliQ, Intuition’s robotic companion for aging adults.  The post NYSOFA combats aging adult loneliness with ElliQ robot appeared first on The Robot Report.

A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge found that robots can decrease productivity in the short term but can increase it in the long term. This U-shaped phenomenon is due to the relationship between reducing costs, developing new processes and innovating new products.  The post Unraveling the U-Curve of robot deployment productivity appeared […]

A team of researchers at the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL used ChatGPT to help them develop a tomato-picking robot. A study about the development of the robot was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence.  The post Researchers use ChatGPT to make a tomato picking robot appeared first on The […]