Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across perilous gaps and execute pinpoint landings on the…
Category: Engineering
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Worm-like robot with integrated modular power | Science Robotics
An untethered crawling robot is self-powered by embedding a deformable battery cell within each actuation module.
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Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control | Science Robotics
Adding radial force control more than doubles the range of balanceable landing conditions on narrow branches.
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Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots | Science Robotics
A soft robot arm can bend, extend, and exert continuous torques based on a mechanical metamaterial.
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Miniature deep-sea morphable robot with multimodal locomotion | Science Robotics
A miniature robot capable of executing swimming, gliding, morphing, and crawling in deep-sea environments is presented.
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Coffee-making robot breaks new ground for AI machines
An AI-powered robot that can prepare cups of coffee in a busy kitchen could usher in the next generation of intelligent machines, a study suggests.
Using a combination of cutting-edge AI, sensitive sensors and fine-tuned motor skills, the robot…
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Turner Construction Launches Turner Ventures, an In-House Venture Capital Arm
Turner Construction Co. on March 17 unveiled Turner Ventures, an internal program to support early-stage startups transforming construction with a focus on entities centered on decarbonization and digitalization of the construction…
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Revolutionary blueprint to fuse wireless technologies and AI
There’s a major difference between humans and current artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities: common sense. According to a new visionary paper by Walid Saad, professor in the College of Engineering and the Next-G Wireless Lead at the Virginia…
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Building a safer future: Strengthen Haiti’s earthquake resilience
Over the past two decades, Haiti has endured the devastation of two catastrophic earthquakes — first in 2010 and again in 2021. Each disaster left behind widespread destruction: buildings reduced to rubble, entire communities displaced and an…
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How Helm.ai Uses Generative AI for Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars were supposed to be in our garages by now, according to the optimistic predictions of just a few years ago. But we may be nearing a few tipping points, with robotaxi adoption going up and consumers getting accustomed to more and…
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