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It’s all in the wrist: energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball

12 Apr 2023

Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of...

Humanoid QT robot and toy-like Misty robot

Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right

15 Mar 2023

Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot...

Robot shaking hands with Dr Micol Spitale

Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests

01 Sep 2022

Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.

Taste of the future: robot chef learns to ‘taste as you go’

04 May 2022

A robot ‘chef’ has been trained to taste food at different stages of the chewing process to assess whether it’s sufficiently seasoned.

Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt

18 Feb 2022

Researchers have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and...

‘Super jelly’ can survive being run over by a car

25 Nov 2021

Researchers have developed a jelly-like material that can withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it, and completely recover to its...

Inflatable, shape-changing spinal implants could help treat severe pain

25 Jun 2021

A team of engineers and clinicians has developed an ultra-thin, inflatable device that can be used to treat the most severe forms of pain without the...

Sophia, Hanson Robotics Ltd. speaking at the AI for GOOD Global Summit, Geneva

Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’, researchers argue

06 Aug 2020

The overwhelming ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence – from stock images and cinematic robots to the dialects of virtual assistants – removes...

A good egg: robot chef trained to make omelettes

01 Jun 2020

A team of engineers have trained a robot to prepare an omelette, all the way from cracking the eggs to plating the finished dish, and refined the...

Robotic hand made of self-healing material that can heal at room temperature

Machine learning to help develop self-healing robots that ‘feel pain’

07 Aug 2019

Researchers from the University of Cambridge will use self-healing materials and machine learning to develop soft robotics as part of a new...

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

08 Jul 2019

A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by...

Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain

01 Jul 2019

Scientists have identified mechanisms in the human brain that could help explain the phenomenon of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ – the unsettling feeling we...

robotics

It’s all in the wrist: energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball

Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right

Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests

Taste of the future: robot chef learns to ‘taste as you go’

Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt

‘Super jelly’ can survive being run over by a car

Inflatable, shape-changing spinal implants could help treat severe pain

Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’, researchers argue

A good egg: robot chef trained to make omelettes

Machine learning to help develop self-healing robots that ‘feel pain’

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain

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