R esearchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new tactile sensing system that allows quadrupedal robots to carry loose, unsecured cylindrical objects on their backs without the cargo ...

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Flexion’s humanoid robot navigates outdoor terrain and cleans up litter autonomously using its new reinforcement learning ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the visual perception abilities they need to understand the world, researchers ...

If you've ever moved into a new home, you know the challenge of packing a moving truck—it's like solving a giant, three-dimensional puzzle. Everything needs to fit just right, and nothing can be left ...

According to its developers, the aptly named OCTOID is a soft robot that leverages cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers ...

NaviSense is a new AI-powered smartphone app built to help visually impaired people find and navigate objects in real time.

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly tunable, asymmetric mechanical responses, an ability crucial for next-generation ...

In the video published on Monday, each robot picks objects from piles of different heights, forcing the system to rely on live perception and motion planning. The robots do not follow fixed paths.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China’s state-owned defense giant Norinco in February unveiled a military vehicle capable of autonomously conducting combat-support operations at 50 kilometres per hour.