The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”.

Jun 9, 2025 · A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble . SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot …

Apr 24, 2025 · Overall, the robot was able to predict a human’s objective with 90 percent accuracy and to identify relevant objects with 96 percent accuracy. The method also improved a robot’s …

Apr 9, 2025 · The robot can jump about 20 centimeters into the air, or four times its height, at a lateral speed of about 30 centimeters per second, and has no trouble hopping across ice, wet …

Aug 9, 2024 · In precise pick-and-place, also known as kitting, the robot transforms an unstructured arrangement of objects into an organized arrangement. The approach, dubbed …

Jan 15, 2025 · “This new robot platform is a major result from our group and leads to many exciting directions. For example, incorporating sensors, batteries, and computing capabilities …

Aug 8, 2024 · The robot, which has an arm attached to its back, completed manipulation tasks after practicing for a few hours. In one demonstration, the robot learned how to securely place …

Jan 28, 2025 · “I have 2-year-old twin daughters, and I see them manipulating objects, carrying 10 different toys at a time, navigating across cluttered rooms with ease, and quickly adapting to …

Jun 3, 2024 · A new deep-learning system known as Grasping Neural Process aids robotic grasping via predictive physics for real-time inference of objects’ hidden properties. It trains a …

May 8, 2025 · To estimate an object’s properties during robot-object interactions, their system relies on two models: one that simulates the robot and its motion and one that simulates the …