Small autonomous underwater vehicles, like the drones of the sea, could be very useful for studying the depths of the ocean and monitoring its changing conditions. But such nautical mini bots can be easily overpowered by turbulent ocean currents.
Category: Engineering
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Ultrasound unlocks a safer, greener way to make hydrogels
Researchers at McGill University, in collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal, pioneered a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more…
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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision.
The new table tennis bot comprises a multijointed robotic arm that is fixed to one end of a ping pong…
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New chip uses AI to shrink large language models’ energy footprint by 50%
Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and GPT-4.
“We…
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Robotic dog mimics mammals for superior mobility on land and in water
A team of researchers has unveiled a cutting-edge Amphibious Robotic Dog capable of roving across both land and water with remarkable efficiency. The study, published in IOP Publishing’s Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, was inspired by mammals’…
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CMU Scores Fourth Straight Victory At MITRE Cybersecurity Competition
May 8, 2025 Mallory Lindahl
A team of 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University have won the 2025 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) security competition, securing CMU’s fourth straight win. The eCTF is a two-phase…
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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision | MIT News
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision.
The new table tennis bot comprises a multijointed robotic arm that is fixed to…
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System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling | MIT News
A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what’s inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, and the University…
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Andrea Bajcsy Earns NSF CAREER Award
May 6, 2025 Mallory Lindahl
Andrea Bajcsy, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career…
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ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
History
Enchanted Tools is a French robotics company founded in 2021 by Jérôme Monceaux, who helped develop Nao and Pepper at Aldebaran Robotics, and Samuel Benveniste, former CTO at CEN STIMCO. Together, they launched Enchanted Tools with the…
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