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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Humanoids are starting to look more like delivery workers. In warehouses and on delivery routes, hands alone aren't enough. People brace bulky packages against their torso or slide them along an arm to keep them stable and free a hand for… |
Watch this octopus-inspired soft gripper reshape its entire body to grab objects. Four pneumatic palm actuators change the gripper’s shape to match the object before contact. Four finger actuators then envelop the object on contact.… |
This 67-gram robot can climb up plant stems and build a 3D model to autonomously navigate among branches and leaves. The hope? To eventually find pests hidden among leaves before they cause crop damage. The research team designed the robot… |
Autonomous driving systems in vehicles can be helpful and improve safety on the road, but it's easy for the driver to fight or disable them when they dislike how they behave. Researchers at the University of Michigan Engineering and… |