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 MIT researchers exhibit a new advancement in autonomous drone navigation, using brain-inspired liquid neural networks that excel in out-of-distribution scenarios.   Makram Chahine, a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science and an MIT CSAIL affiliate, leads a drone used to test liquid neural networks. Photo: Mike Grimmett/MIT CSAIL By Rachel Gordon | MIT …

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 Claire chatted to Francesco Giorgio-Serchi from the University of Edinburgh all about underwater robots, weather-proofing, and soft robotics. Francesco Giorgio-Serchi is a Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the University of Edinburgh. His work encompasses the design and control of underwater vehicles for operation in extreme weather conditions. Previously he was a …

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 Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to human needs could help make them more useful in many contexts.   Emotionally intelligent’ robots could improve their interactions with people. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images By Ramana Vinjamuri (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, …

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 In a surgery in India, a robot scans a patient’s knee to figure out how best to carry out a joint replacement. Meanwhile, in an operating room in the Netherlands, another robot is performing highly challenging microsurgery under the control of a doctor using joysticks. Such scenarios look set to become more common. At present, …

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 Claire chatted to Kat Thiel from Manchester Metropolitan University all about collaborative robots, micro-factories, and fashion manufacturing. Kat Thiel is a Senior Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Manchester Fashion Institute with a research focus on Fashion Practice Research and Industry 4.0., investigating agile cobotic tooling solutions for localised fashion manufacturing. Previously a researcher at …

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 Figure 1: “Interactive Fleet Learning” (IFL) refers to robot fleets in industry and academia that fall back on human teleoperators when necessary and continually learn from them over time. In the last few years we have seen an excitin…   Commercial and industrial deployments of robot fleets: package delivery (top left), food delivery (bottom left), …

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 The three-fingered robotic gripper can “feel” with great sensitivity along the full length of each finger – not just at the tips.   MIT researchers developed a soft-rigid robotic finger that incorporates powerful sensors along its entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one grasp. Image: …

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 Yes, you heard that correctly: the goal is permanent airtime. Robotic flies roaming a room in RoboHouse with no human guidance – achieved within six months. In the future, 24/7 swarms like these may revolutionise aircraft inspection. Imagine a fighter jet enveloped by hundreds of nano drones that build-up a detailed picture in minutes. It’s …

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