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Self-healing materials for robotics made from 'jelly' and salt

Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)

The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature and humidity. And unlike earlier self-...

A Sol in the Life of a Rover

Feb 20, 2022 (JPL)

Percy woke up early in the morning at 02:07 LMST (Local Mean Solar Time on Mars) to conduct a data management activity for an onboard instrument called MEDA (Ma...

AI enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin

Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)

The work shows how computational advances using AI can identify dams that are likely to be particularly detrimental and reveals lost environmental benefits from...

New soft robot morphs from a ground to air vehicle using liquid metal

Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)

If this mechanism was designed by a team at Virginia Tech led by Michael Bartlett, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, you would see a new approach f...

Towards self-sensing soft robots with electrochemically driven pumps

Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)

This is where "soft" robots have the upper hand. Made of materials called "elastomers" (materials with high viscosity and elasticity), soft robots absorb shocks...

AI 'ageism' could seriously impact elderly health: WHO

Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)

AI technologies hold enormous potential for improving care for older people, but they also carry significant risk, the UN health agency said in a policy brief. ...

Former NASA official starts company to put robotic spacecraft in orbit

Feb 04, 2022 (UPI)

The eventual goal is to provide easier and cheaper access to space while also limiting debris in Earth's orbit, Steve Jurczyk, Quantum CEO, told UPI in an inter...

People prefer interacting with female robots in hotels

Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)

The study, which surveyed about 170 people on hypothetical service robot scenarios, also found that the preference was stronger when the robots were described a...

Northrop Grumman to Develop Prototype Artificial Intelligence Assistant

Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the University of Central Florida (UCF), will develop an Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant (OCAR...

Kirigami robotic grippers are delicate enough to lift egg yolks

Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)

The work draws on the art of kirigami, which involves both cutting and folding two-dimensional (2D) sheets of material to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes. Sp...

Enabling artificial intelligence on satellites

Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)

To enable a large-scale use of Artificial Intelligence in orbit, RUAG Space, Europe's leading supplier to the space industry, and Stream Analyze, recognized as ...

How robots learn to hike

Jan 22, 2022 (SPX)

This is made possible by a new control technology, which researchers at ETH Zurich led by robotics professor Marco Hutter recently presented in the journal Scie...

Researchers teach a robotic arm to autonomously push and pick random objects

Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)

Thanks to a new machine learning approach that enables robotic arm to separate out piles of objects, recognize the individual objects, and grasp the desired one...

Carnegie Mellon-led team to develop robotics to service satellites and build structures

Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)

It's launch once, use once. But as satellites have become more robust, their operators often find that fleets outlast their projected lifespans and need new tec...

Bone growth inspired microrobots that can create their own bone

Jan 18, 2022 (SPX)

When we are born, we have gaps in our skulls that are covered by pieces of soft connective tissue called fontanelles. It is thanks to fontanelles that our skull...

From space to the road - 10 years of ROboMObil

Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)

This is how one of the world's first robotic electric vehicles was created in Oberpfaffenhofen. It can drive autonomously, turn within its own length and move s...

RACER revs up for checkered flag goal of high-speed, off-road autonomy

Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)

The DARPA RACER program's goal is to develop and demonstrate autonomy technologies that enable unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to maneuver in unstructured off-r...

Synthesis too slow? Let this robot do it

Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)

By automating the process of synthesizing CPP-conjugated peptide-nucleic acids (PPNAs) using the robot dubbed "Tiny Tides" by the research team, typical PPNA sy...

How scientists designed the controllers for robot manipulators in the space station?

Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)

The high accuracy and dynamic performance of the manipulator are the necessary conditions for the successful completion of these tasks, which can often be maint...

Tiangong's robotic arm performs well in test

Jan 07, 2022 (XNA)

In a statement, the agency said that the arm secured the robotic cargo craft early on Thursday morning and began to move it to a new position at 6:12 am. Tianzh...