Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WEBOct 2, 2024 · 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.
Robotics News & Articles - IEEE Spectrum
WEBOct 7, 2007 · Explore topics. IEEE Spectrum reports on developments in each of these categories. The latest developments in aviation, satellites, astrophysics, space flight, and space exploration. The latest ...
The new wave of robotic automation - MIT News
WEBJun 16, 2021 · Realtime Robotics has developed a combination of proprietary software and hardware that reduces system deployment time by 70 percent or more, reduces deployment costs by 30 percent or more, and reduces the programming component of building a robotic system in the industrial robot space by upwards of 90 percent. Image courtesy of …
Sawyer: Rethink Robotics Unveils New Robot - IEEE Spectrum
WEBMar 19, 2015 · Sawyer will sell for US $29,000. Photo: Cassandra Zampini. Some specs: Weight: 19 kg (42 lbs) Payload: 4 kg (8.8 lb) Reach: 7 degrees of freedom and 1-meter reach. Actuation: Series elastic ...
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots
WEBMay 10, 2024 · A new machine-learning technique can train and control a reconfigurable soft robot that can dynamically change its shape to complete a task. The researchers, from MIT and elsewhere, also built a simulator that can evaluate control algorithms for shape-shifting soft robots.
Cloud Robotics: Connected to the Cloud, Robots Get Smarter
WEBJan 24, 2011 · Erico Guizzo is IEEE Spectrum’s digital innovation director. Cloud Robotics will make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter, says a Google researcher. In the first “Matrix” movie, there’s a ...
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter
WEBSep 30, 2024 · 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 ...
Will Scaling Solve Robotics? - IEEE Spectrum
WEBMay 28, 2024 · Nishanth J. Kumar is a researcher and engineer focused on AI and machine learning applied to robotics. He’s currently a Ph.D. student in the LIS Group within MIT CSAIL, and also spends time at ...
How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change - IEEE Spectrum
WEBMar 4, 2023 · Applying robotics to existing climate solutions can accelerate us to net zero. AES’s custom solar robot can perform the heavy lifting when putting solar modules together. The world emits 51 ...
A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots
WEBDec 7, 2021 · Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have designed “Evolution Gym,” a large-scale testing system for co-optimizing the design and control of soft robots, taking inspiration from nature and evolutionary processes.