
What is a robot? - New Scientist
The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”.
This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical ...
2025年1月15日 · “This new robot platform is a major result from our group and leads to many exciting directions. For example, incorporating sensors, batteries, and computing capabilities …
Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 天之前 · A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble . SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot …
Robotic helper making mistakes? Just nudge it in the right …
2025年3月7日 · Physically nudging the robot is the most direct way to specifying user intent without losing any of the information,” says Wang. Sampling for success. To ensure these …
Humanoid robot learns to waltz by mirroring people's movements
2025年1月16日 · An AI that helps humanoid robots mirror a person’s movement could allow robots to walk, dance and fight in more convincingly human ways. The most agile and fluid …
9 ways robots are helping humans: Robodogs to magnetic slime
2023年7月19日 · In Geneva, a social robot powered by AI – which looks uncannily like its creator, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann – has just been upgraded with ChatGPT-3 to improve its …
The (robotic) doctor will see you now - MIT News
2021年3月4日 · This kind of robot could reduce health care workers’ risk of exposure to Covid-19 and help to conserve the personal protective equipment that is needed for each interaction. …
Expanding robot perception | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute …
2025年1月28日 · “I have 2-year-old twin daughters, and I see them manipulating objects, carrying 10 different toys at a time, navigating across cluttered rooms with ease, and quickly adapting …
Robotic pigeon reveals how birds fly without a vertical tail fin
2024年11月20日 · A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could …
Discover how robots are transforming the medical industry | World ...
2024年9月18日 · The robot communicates with patients via a headset which detects neural activity. The signals are used to decipher what movement the patient is intending to complete; …