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Good portrait photography is as much art as it is science. There are technical details like composition and lighting, but there's also a matter of connecting emotionally with the photo?s subjects. Can you teach that to a robot?
Jan 29th, 2021
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Using the pulse-jet mode that squid and jellyfish use to propel themselves, researchers developed a flexible robot that is as efficient at swimming as its biological models. Further research could lead to robots that can move even more efficiently than aquatic animals.
Jan 22nd, 2021
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A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots' response time.
Jan 21st, 2021
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Scientists have completely decrypted the biomechanical functional principle of what is known as the labial mask of dragonfly larvae. The technology used here could lead to a significant enhancement of agile robot systems.
Jan 20th, 2021
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Computer scientists use deep learning systems to generate synthetic objects for robot training.
Jan 20th, 2021
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Researchers make a big leap in development of soft robotic grippers by integrating sensing mechanisms into 3D printable fingers.
Jan 7th, 2021
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Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife.
Jan 5th, 2021
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A team of physicists and engineers have proposed a new principle by which active matter systems can spontaneously order, without need for higher level instructions or even programmed interaction among the agents.
Jan 3rd, 2021
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By using small networks of Roessler systems, a locomotion controller enables a brain-machine interface for a six-legged antlike robot.
Dec 15th, 2020
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New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practical and policy implications, which this study set out to explore.
Dec 11th, 2020
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Scientists make a big leap in development of soft robotic grippers by integrating sensing mechanisms into 3D printable fingers.
Dec 10th, 2020
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Researchers have developed an autonomous drone that uses a live antenna from a moth to navigate toward smells. Smellicopter can also sense and avoid obstacles as it travels through the air.
Dec 10th, 2020
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When danger approaches, the Moroccan flic-flac spider takes the shape of a ball and rolls away to safety. Just as the trick of shape-shifting to one's environment has proved invaluable for many creatures, researchers say it could be equally useful for robots.
Dec 1st, 2020
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A new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types.
Nov 30th, 2020
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Researchers have developed an easy way to make millirobots by coating objects with a glue-like magnetic spray. Driven by the magnetic field, the coated objects can crawl, walk, or roll on different surfaces.
Nov 25th, 2020
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New research that employs curved origami structures has dramatic implications in the development of robotics going forward, providing tunable flexibility - the ability to adjust stiffness based on function - that historically has been difficult to achieve using simple design.
Nov 19th, 2020
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A physical mechanism a priori reveals how many examples in deep learning are required to achieve a desired test accuracy. It surprisingly indicates that learning each example once is almost equivalent to learning examples repeatedly.
Nov 12th, 2020
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Researchers are exploring novel ways for exploiting the dynamics of high-dimensional chaos to implement humanlike cognitive functions.
Nov 12th, 2020
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