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Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly caterpillar-like manner. As detailed in the research paper in Science Advances by [Shuang Wu] …read more Continue reading Caterpillar-Like Soft Robot With Distributed Programmable Thermal Actuation
You’ve got to hand it to [Carl Bugeja] — he comes up with some of the most interesting electromechanical designs we’ve seen. His latest project is right up there, too: …read more Continue reading Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date. The scientists built their programmable patisserie by retrofit… Continue reading Researchers Design Robot That Can 3D Print a Cake With Up To Seven Ingredients
In a blog post shared last week, Ingka, the legal entity responsible for most of Ikea’s stores, says it now has a total of 100 autonomous drones counting stock in its warehouses during nonoperational hours. The Verge reports: Ikea first partnered with … Continue reading IKEA Adds Stock-Counting Drones To More of Its Stores
Building on recent AI advancements to allow robots to complete tasks autonomously in the real world is a “major step forward,” researchers say. Continue reading Big Tech Is Now Developing Powerful AI Brains for Real-World Robots
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrate… Continue reading Google Researchers Unveil ChatGPT-Style AI Model To Guide a Robot Without Special Training
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A revolution in artificial intelligence could slash the amount of time people spend on household chores and caring, with robots able to perform about 39% of domestic tasks within a decade, accordin… Continue reading Almost 40% of Domestic Tasks Could Be Done By Robots ‘Within Decade’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It is the children’s toy, invented in Britain, that inspired a passion for engineering, science and technology in generations of youngsters — and their parents. Meccano building sets filled with r… Continue reading World’s Last Dedicated Meccano Factory To Close In France
Effectively, these bots are built in segments, and each segment has its own multicopter propulsion unit, capable of vectoring thrust in any direction thanks to multi-axis gimbal systems. The segments are joined together, but capable of articulating in … Continue reading Multi-segment shapeshifter drones: The precursors to flying squid-bots
Too busy playing video games to have a social life? No worries. In 1985, Nintendo introduced R.O.B. — otherwise known as the Robotic Operating Buddy. It was made to play …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Nintendo R.O.B Wanted to Be Your Friend