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Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills

A floating, robotic film could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Engineers create perching bird-like robot (w/video)

With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Artificial intelligence to develop fundamentally new problem-solving techniques

For the first time, computer scientists and mathematicians have used artificial intelligence to help prove or suggest new mathematical theorems in the complex fields of knot theory and representation theory.

Dec 1st, 2021

Team builds first living robots that can reproduce (w/video)

AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication - promising for regenerative medicine.

Nov 30th, 2021

Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships

A new machine-learning model could enable robots to understand interactions in the world in the way humans do.

Nov 29th, 2021

Autonomous robot can open doors, find nearest electric outlet

One flaw in the notion that robots will take over the world is that the world is full of doors.

Nov 10th, 2021

Grants will help advance AI techniques to address data challenges

$3 million in funding to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that has the potential to tackle some of the country's biggest data challenges.

Nov 2nd, 2021

Works well with robots?

As more artificial intelligence systems and robots aid human workers, building trust between them is key to getting the job done.

Nov 1st, 2021

A bug robot that can surf

Mechanical engineers share how they built a tiny, self-powered robot inspired by water-skimming insects.

Oct 20th, 2021

Does the brain learn in the same way that machines learn?

A new perspectives piece relates machine learning to biological learning, showing that the two approaches aren't interchangeable, yet can be harnessed to offer valuable insights into how the brain works.

Oct 19th, 2021

Four-legged swarm robots

Researchers built multi-legged robots capable of maneuvering in challenging environments and accomplishing difficult tasks collectively, mimicking their natural-world counterparts.

Oct 18th, 2021

A robot that finds lost items (w/video)

This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.

Oct 18th, 2021

Flying high-speed drones into the unknown with AI (w/video)

Researchers have developed a new approach to autonomously fly quadrotors through unknown, complex environments at high speeds using only on-board sensing and computation. The new approach could be useful in emergencies, on construction sites or for security applications.

Oct 7th, 2021

LEONARDO, the bipedal robot, can ride a skateboard and walk a slackline (w/video)

LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying.

Oct 7th, 2021

Blockchain technology could provide secure communications for robot teams

The transaction-based communications system ensures robot teams achieve their goal even if some robots are hacked.

Oct 6th, 2021

Customized robots for everyone - groundbreaking solution for AI-based system development

The just completed Q-Rocks project presents a groundbreaking approach that is set to revolutionize robot development: With the help of artificial intelligence methods, users without any expertise will be able to cost-efficiently design customized robots for their applications.

Oct 5th, 2021

Human learning can be duplicated in solid matter

Scientists have found that learning -- a universal feature of intelligence in living beings -- can be mimicked in synthetic matter, a discovery that in turn could inspire new algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI).

Sep 22nd, 2021

Small, mighty robots mimic the powerful punch of mantis shrimp

Modeling the mechanics of the strongest punch in the animal kingdom, researchers built a robot that mimics the movement of the mantis shrimp. These pugnacious crustaceans could pave the way for small, but mighty robotic devices.

Sep 9th, 2021