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网页2024年10月2日 · Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar environments. A new algorithm helps robots practice skills like sweeping and placing objects, potentially helping them improve at important tasks in houses, hospitals, and factories. August 8, 2024. Read full story.
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots
网页2024年5月10日 · Here, a reconfigurable robot learns to elongate and curve its soft body to weave around obstacles and reach a target. Image: Courtesy of the researchers “Such a robot could have thousands of small pieces of muscle to control, so it is very hard to learn in a traditional way,” says Chen.
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter
网页2024年9月30日 · MIT engineers have developed a method that enables robots to make similarly intuitive, task-relevant decisions. The team’s new approach, named Clio, enables a robot to identify the parts of a scene that matter, given the tasks at hand. With Clio, a robot takes in a list of tasks described in natural language and, based on those tasks, it then ...
AI and robotics: How will robots help us in the future? | World ...
网页2022年2月9日 · Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to the emergence of a new class of robot. In the next five years, our households and workplaces will become dependent upon the role of robots, says Pieter Abbeel, the founder of UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab. Here he outlines a few standout examples.
Robots help patients manage chronic illness at home
网页2019年10月10日 · A portion of the patients were given a robotic weight-loss coach to take home, while another group used a computer running the same software. The tabletop robot conducted regular check ups and offered tips on maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. Patients who received the robot were much more likely to stick with the weight loss …
Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger …
网页2022年11月22日 · MIT researchers made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. Their new study shows both assembler bots and components of the structure being built can all be made of the same …
Designing customized “brains” for robots - MIT News
网页2021年1月21日 · MIT researchers have developed an automated way to design customized hardware, or “brains,” that speeds up a robot’s operation. Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don’t move quickly.
The new wave of robotic automation - MIT News
网页2021年6月16日 · Peter Howard SM ’84 is the CEO of Realtime Robotics, a startup transforming autonomous robot motion planning to enable seamless, affordable human-robot collaboration. Realtime Robotics has developed a combination of proprietary software and hardware that reduces system deployment time by 70 percent or more, reduces …
Computer-aided creativity in robot design - MIT News
网页2020年11月30日 · Choosing the best robot design requires controlling each robot’s movements and evaluating its function. “Up until now, these robots are just structures,” says Zhao. The controller is the set of instructions that brings those structures to life, governing the movement sequence of the robot’s various motors.
Giving bug-like bots a boost | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute …
网页2021年12月16日 · They also demonstrated a 20-second hovering flight, which Chen says is the longest ever recorded by a sub-gram robot. Their hovering robot held its position more stably than any of the others. The 20-layer actuator was still working smoothly after being driven for more than 2 million cycles, far outpacing the lifespan of other actuators.