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Oct 8, 2025 · Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful …
Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous …
Apr 30, 2025 · Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, …
Robotics news, features and articles - Live Science
6 days ago · Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles.
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — …
Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if …
May 13, 2025 · MIT engineers built E-BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set …
This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical ...
Jan 15, 2025 · New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to …
A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with …
Jul 1, 2024 · Instead, they rely on robotic controllers built into the prosthetic limb. These limbs also include sensors that can detect and adjust to slopes and obstacles. To try to help people …
Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, …
May 1, 2024 · MIT CSAIL researchers create three neurosymbolic methods to help language models build libraries of better abstractions within natural language: LILO assists with code …
Robots receive major intelligence boost thanks to Google …
Oct 10, 2025 · Robots receive major intelligence boost thanks to Google DeepMind's 'thinking AI' — a pair of models that help machines understand the world
New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in …
Jun 5, 2025 · A new system enables a robot to “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds.