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- Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures
- What is a robot? - New Scientist
The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”
- New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds
A new system enables a robot to “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds
- This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical . . .
New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables
- Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans . . .
MIT roboticists developed a way to cut through data noise and help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most relevant for assisting humans The system could be used in smart manufacturing and warehouse settings where robots would work alongside and assist humans
- A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
SPROUT is a flexible robot built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Notre Dame researchers to assist in disaster response Emergency responders can use the robot to navigate and map areas under rubble to plan rescue operations
- Expanding robot perception - MIT News
MIT Associate Professor Luca Carlone works to give robots a more human-like perception of their environment, so they can interact with people safely and seamlessly
- Magnetic robots walk, crawl, and swim - MIT News
MIT scientists developed tiny, soft-bodied robots that can be controlled with a weak magnet The robots, formed from rubbery magnetic spirals, can be programmed to walk, crawl, swim — all in response to a simple, easy-to-apply magnetic field
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