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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Collaborate: Training Atlas to Learn

The Toyota Research Institute has been making significant strides in teaching robots to quickly learn and execute tasks autonomously. Now, it is introducing its Large Behavior Model technology to the remarkable Atlas humanoid robot in collaboration with Boston Dynamics. Surprisingly, humanoid robot hardware is already quite advanced. Over a decade of development at Boston Dynamics […]

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A Robotic Finger Could Conduct your Next Intimate Physical Exam

Robotics, Science / Ngoma Manuel

Researchers have created an ultrasensitive robotic ‘finger’ that mimics human touch, capable of safely conducting routine physical exams similar to those performed by doctors. They believe this ‘robodoctor‘ could soon appear in medical clinics. Doctors use their fingers as diagnostic tools to gather various insights about your health. Medical professionals use their fingers to check

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A Pangolin-Inspired Robot Deposits Tree Seeds Into the Holes it Digs

Robotics, Science / Ngoma Manuel

Foraging pangolins naturally dig in the ground, so why not have them plant trees at the same time? Training them to do so would be quite challenging, which is why a high school student from California named Dorothy created a pangolin-inspired robot to handle the digging and planting instead. Called the Plantolin, this bio-inspired robot

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Robot-to-Drone Food Deliveries Launch in Dallas

Robotics, Science / cumbonguala

While still not entirely common, rolling robots have been delivering goods to local customers for some time, and drones have been transporting packages overhead. Now, Serve Robotics and Wing Aviation are set to combine these two delivery methods. Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has been transporting small packages by air since at

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A New Method Lets Robots Map a Scene and Identify Objects to Complete Tasks

Robotics, Science / Valeriano Ndeyi

Picture tidying up a cluttered kitchen, beginning with a counter scattered with sauce packets. If your aim is to clean the counter, you might gather all the packets at once. But if you want to separate the mustard packets first, you’d sort them by type. And if you were specifically looking for Grey Poupon mustard,

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AI Generates More Innovative Research Ideas than Human Experts

Robotics, Science / Ana Kiesse Zeleme

The first statistically significant findings are in: Large Language Model (LLM) AIs are not only capable of generating expert-level scientific research ideas, but their ideas are also deemed more innovative and exciting than those of human experts, according to expert evaluations. Recent advancements in LLMs have sparked enthusiasm among researchers about their potential to transform

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Neo Beta Humanoid Revealed Ahead of Limited Household Release

Robotics, Science / Salomão André

In February, Norway’s 1X showcased its progress with Eve, a pick-and-place workplace humanoid. Now, the OpenAI-backed company has released video footage of its newest prototype, a bipedal butlerbot called Neo Beta. Eve doesn’t walk on two legs but moves on wheels at speeds up to 9 mph (14.5 km/h). Instead of human-like hands, it uses

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Fungus Figures Out How to Steer Biohybrid Robots

Robotics, Science / Jorge Paka

Autonomous vehicles are often considered safer than human drivers, but would you feel comfortable with a mushroom in control? A new type of “biohybrid” robot is designed to move based on signals from a fungus’s nervous system. A few decades of human engineering are no match for billions of years of evolution, so instead of

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Engineers are Creating a Jet-Powered Flying Robot for Disaster Response

Robotics, Science / cumbonguala

Imagine you’re injured on a remote mountain trail and have contacted emergency services. If Italian research is successful, a small humanoid robot with a jetpack might be the first responder to reach you. This project, developed by the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence group at the Italian Institute of Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), is focused

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Watch: Humanoid Homebot Handles a Remarkable Range of Household Tasks

Robotics, Science / Salomão André

Just a few months after Chinese startup Astribot shared stunning video footage of its humanoid assistant, the company has now released a launch video for the S1. The new footage features the bot making waffles, feeding the cat, serving tea, and shooting hoops. When the S1 was initially unveiled in April, we questioned why the

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