Columbia Engineering researchers use AI to teach robots to make appropriate reactive human facial expressions, an ability that could build trust between humans and their robotic co-workers and care-givers. While our facial…
Category: Robots
BOBbots – Simple Robots, Smart Algorithms
Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots to work collectively can be equally challenging, unless…
Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots
Last year, a team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) created novel, tiny self-healing biological machines from frog cells called “Xenobots” that could move…
Soft Robotic Dragonfly Signals Environmental Disruptions
Engineers at Duke University have developed an electronics-free, entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly that can skim across water and react to environmental conditions such as pH, temperature or the presence…
Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense
MIT researchers have developed a deep learning neural network to aid the design of soft-bodied robots. There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t…