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New Compact and Dexterous Robotic Finger Can Endure Impacts

For several years, scientists have attempted to build robotic hands that possess similar dexterity to human hands in the ways they can hold and control objects.

25 Oct 2022

Festo Brings Its Flying Robotic Dragonfly and Swift to 5th Annual Robot Block Party

Festo brings the company's flying robotic dragonfly and swift to Boston on Saturday, October 1, to celebrate RoboBoston - the MassRobotics sponsored 5th annual Robot Block Party.

30 Sep 2022

New Mathematical Relationship for Multi-Legged Animals and Bots

A group of roboticists, physicists, and biologists revealed that multi-legged animals and robots can walk more easily than previously believed. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on September 5th, 2022.

6 Sep 2022

FPT Software Formed New Business Alliance with Landing AI, Promoting Visual Inspection Technology

Vietnam’s leading IT firm, FPT Software, has recently entered a strategic partnership with Silicon Valley AI and machine vision leader Landing AI.

31 May 2022

Northwestern Engineers Create the Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Crab-Shaped Robot

Engineers at Northwestern University have created the tiniest-ever remote-regulated walking robot in the form of a miniature, attractive peekytoe crab.

26 May 2022

Engineers Develop a Robotic Gripper with Rich Sensory Capabilities

It is difficult to get rid of the image of a massive metallic robot that communicates in monotone and keeps moving in lumbering, deliberate steps.

18 Apr 2022

ACM Prize in Computing in Recognition of Pieter Abbeel’s Contributions to Contemporary Robotics

Recently, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has bestowed the 2021 ACM Prize in Computing to Pieter Abbeel for his contributions to robot learning, including deep reinforcement learning for robotic control and learning from demonstrations.

7 Apr 2022

Insect-Inspired Robots Designed to Monitor Hard-to-Reach Areas

Insects can squeeze through the smallest cracks, fit comfortably into constricted spaces, and survive in extreme environments. Basically, there are not many spaces that are out-of-bounds to an insect.

4 Mar 2022

Novel Soft Haptic Sensor Provides Fingertip Sensitivity for Robots

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) present a powerful soft haptic sensor called “Insight” that utilizes computer vision and a deep neural network to exactly approximate the place where objects come into contact with the sensor and the size of the applied forces.

25 Feb 2022

Autonomously Swimming Biohybrid Fish Recreates the Muscle Contractions of a Pumping Heart

Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University, have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells. The artificial fish swims by recreating the muscle contractions of a pumping heart, bringing researchers one step closer to developing a more complex artificial muscular pump and providing a platform to study heart disease like arrhythmia.

11 Feb 2022