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Miniscule device could help preserve the battery life of tiny sensors

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 Researchers demonstrate a low-power “wake-up” receiver one-tenth the size of other devices.   Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have built a wake-up receiver that communicates using terahertz waves, which enabled them to produce a chip more than 10 times smaller than similar devices. Their receiver, which also includes authentication to protect it from a certain …

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Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks

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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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Robot Talk Episode 45 – Francesco Giorgio-Serchi

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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 everywhere – improving how they communicate with people could advance human-robot collaboration

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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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Robot Talk Episode 44 – Kat Thiel

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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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Interactive fleet learning

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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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Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp

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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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