In an increasingly common refrain, three U.S. senators from Wisconsin and Minnesota are calling for the release of federal funds to allow for the $1.8-billion replacement of the Blatnik Bridge, a key freight and commuter link between Duluth,…
Category: Engineering
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Hair-thin 'soft yarn' actuator fiber moves with electricity
Researchers at Tohoku University, working with international collaborators in France, have developed an ultrafine “soft yarn” actuator fiber capable of bending, contracting, and producing complex three-dimensional movements when electricity is…
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World’s largest humanoid robot training center to launch in Germany
Germany is getting ready to launch the world’s largest robotics research and training center, where human trainers will train humanoid robots to carry out everyday tasks.
The new facility, TUM RoboGym, is being built through a…
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Rhoda AI Exits Stealth with $450 Million Series A to Bring Robots Out of the Lab and Into the Real World
Rhoda AI Exits Stealth with $450 Million Series A to Bring Robots Out of the Lab and Into the Real World
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MIT study finds AI agents ‘increasingly capable of performing complex tasks with limited human involvement’
Artificial intelligence systems known as “AI agents” are becoming increasingly capable of carrying out complex digital tasks with minimal human supervision, according to a new research project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology….
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MIT study suggests computing power – not ‘secret sauce’ – drives most AI model breakthroughs
A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that the rapid improvement of large language models is driven primarily by access to massive computing power rather than secret proprietary techniques developed by…
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Body Horror Robot Turns Human Into Centaur
We’ve seen plenty of robot appendages designed to decrease exertion, from futuristic…
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Robot hands so sensitive they can grab a potato chip
A new type of robotic hand developed at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them. The technology, called Fragile Object Grasping…
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Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch with robotic fingertips
By Anthony King
Modern surgery has gone from long incisions to tiny cuts guided by robots and AI. In the process, however, surgeons have…
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Where Autonomous Vehicles Will Go Next
Todd Jochem on the evolution of autonomous vehicles, the state of self-driving technology and Carnegie Mellon’s lasting impact
03/10/2026 Mallory Lindahl
Todd Jochem (SCS 1993, 1996) has been in the driver’s seat of…
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