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The latest robotic technology news, picked and curated by @UCLENGins experts.

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Looking beyond “technology for technology’s sake”. Austen Roberson’s favorite class at MIT is 2.S007 (Design and Manufacturing I-Autonomous Machines), in which students design, build, and program a fully autonomous robot to... https://t.co/gwTFW5ms7V #robotics #ENGins #AI

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A single fiber actuator inspired by human muscles. To effectively replicate the movements of humans and animals, robots should integrate muscle-like structures. These artificial muscles should attain an optimal performance across... https://t.co/ZtJHmQap1b #robotics #ENGins #AI

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The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare. On Saturday, October 29, a Russian fleet on the Black Sea near Sevastopol was attacked by 16 drones—nine in the air and seven in the water. Purportedly launched by... https://t.co/7W2Ql7TbNf #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Meet Your New Corporate Office Mate: A ‘Brainless’ Robot. The new workers zipped around the office completing mundane tasks like fetching coffee, delivering meals and handing off packages. They did not get in anyone’s way or... https://t.co/5Iy9lJFle7 #robotics #ENGins #AI

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This robotic dog can walk over just about any terrain. Quadruped robot developers like Boston Dynamics have taken great pains to develop systems capable of traversing all manner of terrain. For the right price, you can pick up a... https://t.co/Ln859l3Pd6 #robotics #ENGins #AI

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‘Part of the kill chain’: how can we control weaponised robots? The security convoy turned on to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Boulevard at around 3:30pm on 27 November 2020. The VIP was the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, widely... https://t.co/1DoDyDH4QN #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Perceptron: AI that sees with sound, learns to walk and predicts seismic physics. Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone... https://t.co/RAUQvbv6C7 #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Amazon debuts Sparrow, a new bin-picking robot arm. The bin-moving robots designed by Kiva Systems still form the foundation of Amazon’s warehouse robotics play a decade after it acquired the startup. There’s a reason — for... https://t.co/zwJ5qIBLX0 #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Experience: I make prosthetic arms with Lego. I was born with Poland syndrome, a disease that prevented the formation of my right arm and pectoral muscles. I was bullied at school. People said things like, “It’s not your fault... https://t.co/CXQBtSOkPQ #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Flexible Catheter for Brain Access Bioinspired by Wasps. Researchers at Imperial College London in the UK have developed a flexible catheter system that is designed to enable access and treatment of the deep areas of the brain. At... https://t.co/UMltIdvTuL #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Nanoparticles in Medicine—Microbots to Blood Clots. As nanotechology burrows into an increasing number of medical technologies, new developments in nanoparticles point to the ways that treatments can today be nanotechnologically... https://t.co/8WjtIJFAPD #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Cyberdontics raises $15M for robotic root canals. It’s been more than 20 years since the da Vinci Surgical System received FDA clearance. Pretty incredible when you think about it. Robotic surgery and automation in general have... https://t.co/QCqJUd01vh #robotics #ENGins #AI

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A robotic exoskeleton adapts to wearers to help them walk faster. An exoskeleton that uses machine learning to adapt to its wearers’ gait could help make it easier for people with limited mobility to walk. The exoskeleton, which... https://t.co/mDIrylNSpB #robotics #ENGins #AI

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50 women in robotics you need to know about 2022. Our Women in Robotics list turns 10 this year and we are delighted to introduce you to another amazing “50 women in robotics you need to know about” as we also celebrate Ada... https://t.co/EO9wV2D8kP #robotics #ENGins #AI

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IHMC’s Nadia Is a Versatile Humanoid Teammate. The Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) is well known in bipedal robotics circles for teaching very complex humanoid robots to walk. Since 2015, IHMC has been home... https://t.co/g6p4QGYbTn #robotics #ENGins #AI

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected. At the end of Tesla’s 2021 AI Day last August, Elon Musk introduced a concept for “Tesla Bot,” an electromechanically actuated, autonomous bipedal “general purpose”... https://t.co/PiZ7eTOx0Z #robotics #ENGins #AI

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The Long Road to Driverless Trucks. In March, a self-driving eighteen-wheeler spent more than five straight days hauling goods between Dallas and Atlanta. Running around the clock, it traveled more than 6,300 miles, making four... https://t.co/KhPfJkXrb6 #robotics #ENGins #AI

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How robots and AI are helping develop better batteries. Around the start of the year, Carnegie Mellon researchers used a robotic system to run dozens of experiments designed to generate electrolytes that could enable lithium-ion... https://t.co/eHhe4lIXOS #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Robo-Ostrich Sprints to 100-meter World Record. For a robot that shares a leg design with the fastest-running bird on the planet, we haven’t ever really gotten a sense of how fast Agility Robotics’ Cassie is actually able to move.... https://t.co/JqkDIrjQex #robotics #ENGins #AI

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Contoro Robotics Introduction. Contoro Robotics solves labor problems by augmenting robotic intelligence with teleoperation. For the details, visit our website.   https://t.co/HZqCuV9n1I #robotics #ENGins #AI