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'My robot is a softie': Physical texture influences judgments of robot personality

Impressions of a robot's personality can be influenced by the way it looks, sounds, and feels. But now, researchers have found specific causal relationships between impressions of robot personality and body texture.

December 6, 2021 Read more

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.

December 2, 2021 Read more

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.

December 2, 2021 Read more

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.

December 1, 2021 Read more

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.

November 30, 2021 Read more

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.

November 29, 2021 Read more

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.

November 10, 2021 Read more

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.

November 2, 2021 Read more

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.

November 1, 2021 Read more

A bug robot that can surf

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

October 20, 2021 Read more

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.

October 19, 2021 Read more

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.

October 18, 2021 Read more

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.

October 18, 2021 Read more

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.

October 7, 2021 Read more

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.

October 7, 2021 Read more

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.

October 6, 2021 Read more

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.

October 5, 2021 Read more

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).

September 22, 2021 Read more