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Resource-constrained image generation and visual understanding: an interview with Aniket Roy
AIhub
07 Apr 2026
Aniket tells us about his research exploring how modern generative models can be adapted to operate efficiently while maintaining strong performance.
Back to school: robots learn from factory workers
Horizon Magazine
02 Apr 2026
A Czech startup is making factory automation easier by letting workers teach robots new tasks through simple demonstrations instead of complex coding.
Resource-sharing boosts robotic resilience
EPFL
31 Mar 2026
When a modular robot shares power, sensing, and communication resources among its individual units, it is significantly more resistant to failure than traditional robotic systems.
A history of RoboCup with Manuela Veloso
AIhub and Lucy Smith
24 Mar 2026
Find out how RoboCup got started and how the competition has evolved, from one of the co-founders.
Graphene-based sensor to improve robot touch
University of Cambridge
16 Mar 2026
Multiscale-structured miniaturized 3D force sensors for improved robot touch.
Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch with robotic fingertips
Horizon Magazine
10 Mar 2026
Researchers are developing robotic “fingertips” that could give surgeons back their sense of touch during minimally invasive and robotic operations.
Humanoid home robots are on the market – but do we really want them?
The Conversation
03 Mar 2026
Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”.
I developed an app that uses drone footage to track plastic litter on beaches
The Conversation
26 Feb 2026
Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively.
Translating music into light and motion with robots
University of Waterloo
25 Feb 2026
Robots the size of a soccer ball create new visual art by trailing light that represents the “emotional essence” of music
CoRL2025 – RobustDexGrasp: dexterous robot hand grasping of nearly any object
Hui Zhang
11 Nov 2025
A new reinforcement learning framework enables dexterous robot hands to grasp diverse objects with human-like robustness and adaptability—using only a single camera.
Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm
Rice University
01 Oct 2025
Researchers at Rice University have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks.
#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour
Agata Ciabattoni and Emery Neufeld
04 Sep 2025
The authors introduce a framework for guiding reinforcement learning agents to comply with social, legal, and ethical norms.
Researchers are teaching robots to walk on Mars from the sand of New Mexico
Oregon State University
02 Sep 2025
Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars
Octopus inspires new suction mechanism for robots
University of Bristol
18 Apr 2024
Suction cup grasping a stone - Image credit: Tianqi Yue
The team, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, studied the structures of octopus biological suckers, which have superb adaptive s...
AI holidays 2023
AIhub and Lucy Smith
31 Dec 2023
Thanks to those that sent and suggested AI and robotics-themed holiday videos, images, and stories. Here’s a sample to get you into the spirit this season....
Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives
The Conversation
31 Dec 2023
By Farshad Arvin, Martin Stefanec, and Tomas Krajnik
Be it the news or the dwindling number of creatures hitting your windscreens, it will not have evaded you that the insect world in bad shape.
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Using language to give robots a better grasp of an open-ended world
MIT News
06 Nov 2023
By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.
AAAI Fall Symposium: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira on human-robot interaction design
AIhub and Lucy Smith
31 Oct 2023
We summarise the first keynote from the symposium on artificial intelligence for human-robot interaction.
Do humans get lazier when robots help with tasks?
Frontiers Journals & Blog
29 Oct 2023
Humans carrying out quality assurance tasks spotted fewer errors when they had been told that robots had already checked a piece, suggesting they relied on the robots and paid less attention to the work.
Goal representations for instruction following
BAIR Blog
22 Oct 2023
Natural language has the potential to be an easy-to-use interface for humans to specify arbitrary tasks, but it is difficult to train robots to follow language instructions.
New technique helps robots pack objects into a tight space
MIT News
17 Oct 2023
Researchers coaxed a family of generative AI models to work together to solve multistep robot manipulation problems.
Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
MIT News
08 Oct 2023
MIT engineers develop a long, curved touch sensor that could enable a robot to grasp and manipulate objects in multiple ways.
Soft robotic tool provides new ‘eyes’ in endovascular surgery
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
23 Sep 2023
The magnetic device can help visualise and navigate complex and narrow spaces.
‘Brainless’ robot can navigate complex obstacles
NC Sate University
21 Sep 2023
Researchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on that work, creating a “brainless” soft robot that can navigate more complex and dynamic environments.
Battery-free origami microfliers from UW researchers offer a new bio-inspired future of flying machines
Researchers at the University of Washington present battery-free microfliers that can change shape in mid-air to vary their dispersal distance.
High-tech microscope with ML software for detecting malaria in returning travellers
Frontiers Science News and AIhub
14 Sep 2023
Method not as accurate as human experts, but shows promise.
Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat
Wyss Institute
09 Sep 2023
The ink helps heart muscle cells align so that they can contract in coordination.
MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures
MIT News
01 Sep 2023
Produced with techniques borrowed from Japanese paper-cutting, the strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties.
New dual-arm robot achieves bimanual tasks by learning from simulation
University of Bristol
29 Aug 2023
An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions.
AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
MIT News
27 Aug 2023
With a new technique, a robot can reason efficiently about moving objects using more than just its fingertips.
3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
12 Aug 2023
A new, shape-shifting display can sense and respond to human touch.
Can charismatic robots help teams be more creative?
Frontiers Journals & Blog
09 Aug 2023
Scientists found that students given a task by a social robot with a voice programmed to be engaging and inspiring performed better and were more creative than students who received the task from an identical robot with a flat voice.
Enabling autonomous exploration
Carnegie Mellon University
30 Jul 2023
CMU-designed systems allow robots to explore on their own.
Pangolin the inspiration for medical robot
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
27 Jul 2023
Robot is made of metal and yet is soft and flexible.
Heat-resistant drone could scope out and map burning buildings and wildfires
Imperial College London
24 Jul 2023
Imperial College London and Empa researchers have built a drone that can withstand high enough temperatures to enter burning buildings.
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy
Université Libre de Bruxelles
20 Jul 2023
In experiments conducted with both real and simulated robots, we show how blockchain technology enables a robot swarm to neutralize harmful robots without human intervention, thus enabling the deployment of autonomous and safe robot swarms.
