Automation and Robotics

Aiming to Enhance Human-robot Collaboration with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have become increasingly advanced over the past few decades, attaining remarkable results in many real-world tasks. Nonetheless, most existing AI...

Scratching the 6G Surface

“We can imagine completely autonomous systems; or multi-sensory extended reality which integrates the five traditional human senses with the digital world; or real-time remote...

Sensor Fusion Comes of Age

Over time, sensors have morphed from simple analog and mechanical constructs to chip-based digital devices that connect to a machine to monitor the machine’s...

New Mobile Robots for Safe and Effective Collaboration

Teams of mobile robots could be highly effective in helping humans to complete straining manual tasks, such as manufacturing processes or the transportation of...

Simple Actuators for Complex Motions

Inflatable soft actuators that can change shape with a simple increase in pressure can be powerful, lightweight, and flexible components for soft robotic systems....

A Major Revolution in Maintenance: AI/IoT-Guided Predictive Maintenance that Prevents Downtime

Manufacturers in all industries know the key to better productivity is keeping the production equipment running smoothly without unexpected stops. Short stoppages often do...

Power Conversion Breakthroughs Fuel a Robot Revolution

Innovations in power conversion technology are enabling a transformation in robotics design. Today’s integrated power modules are addressing the demanding size, weight, power budgets...

Wearable textile Exomuscle for People with Restricted Mobility

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a wearable textile exomuscle that serves as an extra layer of muscles. They aim to use it to...

Role of Robotics in Achieving Sustainable development

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, has assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the delivery...

A Deep Learning Framework for Predicting Robotic Movements

As robots are gradually introduced into various real-world environments, developers and roboticists will need to ensure that they can safely operate around humans. In...

Flawed AI made Racist Robots

A robot operating with a popular Internet-based artificial intelligence system consistently gravitates toward men over women, white people over people of color, and jumps...

One Stop 3D Printing Method to Make Robotic Materials

A team of UCLA engineers and their colleagues have developed a new design strategy and 3D printing technique to build robots in one single...

Reducing the Power Consumption with Neuromorphic Chip

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University's Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Researcher has developed a neuromorphic chip that can reduce the power consumption of...

AI Mimics Insects for Small Autonomous Robots

Small autonomous mobile robots, such as drones, rovers, and legged robots, promise to perform a wide range of tasks, from autonomously monitoring crops in...

Robots got Human Touch

From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies,...

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