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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 capable of navigating under collapsed structures. April 2, 2025. Read full story →
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5 天之前 · Watch this humanoid robot perform a side flip for the first time. By Alan Bradley published 2 April 25 Unitree's G1 demonstrates a new level of robotic agility with a complex movement following an ...
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 interactions don’t cause the robot to choose an invalid action, such as colliding with other objects, the researchers use a specific sampling procedure.
The 7 most disturbing humanoid robots that emerged in 2024
2024年12月27日 · To add further to this robot's terrifying list of skills, it can run at 5.6 mph (9 km/h), jump and even perform backflips. Unlike the other robots on this list, its incredible balance also means ...
The new wave of robotic automation - MIT News
2021年6月16日 · The fact is, it's always been too slow to be effective for robot and autonomous vehicle applications in dynamic environments like a factory floor shared by robots and people alike. Until Realtime Robotics stepped up and solved the problem with autonomous robot motion planning and multi-robot deconfliction.
Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar ...
2024年8月8日 · The robot, which has an arm attached to its back, completed manipulation tasks after practicing for a few hours. In one demonstration, the robot learned how to securely place a ball and ring on a slanted table in roughly three hours. In another, the algorithm guided the machine to improve at sweeping toys into a bin within about two hours.
17 weird, wonderful and terrifying robots we saw at CES 2025 — …
2025年1月10日 · The maker of one of the fastest humanoid robots in the world came to CES 2025 in Las Vegas to showcase its latest models, including a rather eerie quadruped robot — commonly known as a "robot ...
Watch bipedal robots running in a more human-like way than ever …
2025年2月8日 · Chinese robotics company Unitree has overcome this challenge with its G1 Bionic robot by using 3D lidar sensors and depth-sensing cameras that enable the robot to perceive its environment in real ...
A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots
2024年10月28日 · At the same time, each robot is mechanically unique, with a different number and orientation of arms, grippers, and sensors. Plus, the environments where data are collected vary widely. The MIT researchers developed a new architecture called Heterogeneous Pretrained Transformers (HPT) that unifies data from these varied modalities and domains.
Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
2024年3月25日 · Mapping a robot’s physical coordinates, or an image of the robot state, to a natural language label is known as “grounding.” The team’s new algorithm is designed to learn a grounding “classifier,” meaning that it learns to automatically identify what semantic subtask a robot is in — for example, “reach” versus “scoop ...