Swarms of miniature robots clean up microplastics and microbes, simultaneously

When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits of ... Read More

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Schools around the world have closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, leaving parents and teachers scrambling to figure out how kids can learn at home. We can help! Science News Explores and the ... Read More

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Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity May 3, 2024 — A stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as ... Read More

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At first glance at this video, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a clip from the latest children's cartoon. But the footage is very much real, and features a real-life robot. Boston Dynamics ... Read More

Scientists create robot snails that can move independently using tracks or work together to climb

A team of roboticists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has created a robot snail with a helmet-like shell that moves by rolling around on bulldozer-like tracks. They have published a paper on ... Read More

Struggled with 'I am not a robot' captchas lately? It's not just you... they're getting harder - here's why

The 'I'm not a robot' prompt originally made the users ... notice a tiny fraction of a crosswalk in a square and the anxiety builds as you ask yourself: 'Does this count? Should I select it?' ... Read More

Can robots help keep us safe?

Li's moon shot is Knightscope, the company he founded in 2013 to build Autonomous Security Robots (“ASRs”). Knightscope's five-foot tall, 400-pound machines can detect people, record footage ... Read More

‘World’s most advanced robot’ to be exhibited in Scotland

A humanoid robot described as the most ... events and engaged thousands of school-aged children. “Ameca represents an exciting opportunity to build on that success and take public engagement ... Read More

When is Mother's Day 2024?

to the mother of your own children, Mother's Day is the time to let all the moms in your life know how deeply appreciated they are. If yours is the kind of mom who says "just get me a card" year ... Read More

Using sim-to-real reinforcement learning to train robots to do simple tasks in broad environments

In their study, published in the journal Science ... it improves its performance as it seeks to up its count of rewards. The research team used the approach to train a robot called Digit to ... Read More

Meet the Robots Slicing Your Barbecue Ribs

Meatpackers are increasingly looking to robots for help. Smithfield, the largest U.S. pork processor, began rolling out automated rib pullers at its pork plants several years ago, which company ... Read More

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