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2017
Watch this nimble robot make quick work of odd shapes
Researchers from UC Berkeley have turned to deep learning to help two robotic arms successfully know how to grab odd-shaped items with 99-percent accuracy.
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2017
Megabots' giant American fighting robot beats up a Toyota Prius
With the world's first international giant robot fight just a few months away, team America has revealed its contender. The MegaBots Mk.III combat robot made its hulking debut at Maker Faire Bay Area, and took the opportunity to beat up on a couple of Toy
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2017
Meet Famula, a robotic hand that learns on its own
Researchers at the University of Bielefeld have developed a gripping system with robotic hands, which independently acquaints itself with unknown objects. The new system works without first knowing the features of objects such as fruit or tools.
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2017
Muscle-equipped gloves give VR users a sense of touch
Researchers at UC San Diego are developing lightweight flexible gloves that simulate the resistance one would feel upon touching a real object.
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2017
MetaLimbs gives you an extra pair of robotic hands
A team of Japanese engineers has come up with a solution dubbed MetaLimbs – a set of robotic arms that are controlled with your feet and knees.
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2017
This robot arm’s AI thinks like we do about how to grab something
The basic idea behind the system is rather like how we figure out how to pick things up. You see an object, understand its shape and compare it to other objects you’ve picked up in the past, then use that information to choose the best way to grab it.
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2017
These flat-pack turtlebots will crawl across minefields for safety’s sake
The solution the researchers propose is a robot (the “C-Turtle”) with a simple crawling gait inspired by sea turtles’ movement in sand. A special learning algorithm tweaks the movement on the fly, and the robot itself is basically made from a single sheet
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2017
Smart cloth can turn a tabletop workspace into one huge trackpad
Textile Touchpad is an Adafruit Flora microcontroller, which is connected to X/Y sensors, conductive fabric strips laid out in a grid pattern and capacitive touch breakout boards. Cover fabric was stitched in place to hide all the inner workings and then
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2017
Stan the robotic valet parks your car, no human required
Stanley Robotics' robotic valet system is designed to make life easier for travelers, all the while increasing revenue for garage owners. Having reserved a parking space through a smartphone app, users drive up to a designated spot and walk away.
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2017
Flyability Extends Range of Collision-Tolerant Drone
Flyability, a Swiss company building safe drones for inaccessible places, has rolled out the range extender, an accessory for the collision-tolerant Elios unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
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