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Tackling loneliness with ChatGPT and robots
In a recent study by the Surgeon General, more than half of the adults in the USA experience loneliness, with only 39% reporting feeling “very connected to others.”
05 September 2023, by
Oliver Mitchell
Robo-Insight #4
In this fourth edition, we are excited to feature progress in mobile applications, cleaning, underwater mining, flexibility, human well-being, depression treatments, and human interactions.
03 September 2023, by
Shaunak Kapur
MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures
Produced with techniques borrowed from Japanese paper-cutting, the strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties.
01 September 2023, by
MIT News
New dual-arm robot achieves bimanual tasks by learning from simulation
An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions.
29 August 2023, by
University of Bristol
AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
With a new technique, a robot can reason efficiently about moving objects using more than just its fingertips.
27 August 2023, by
MIT News
[UPDATE] A list of resources, articles, and opinion pieces relating to large language models & robotics
With the recent flurry of activity around large language models, we've collected some of the recent publications on the topic.
23 August 2023, by
AIhub and Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
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SVR Guide to Robotics Research and Education 2023
This volume serves as a guide to students who are interested in studying the field of robotics in any way.
22 August 2023, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
Robo-Insight #3
In this third edition, we are excited to feature progress in motion, unfamiliar navigation, dynamic control, digging, agriculture, surgery, and food sorting.
20 August 2023, by
Shaunak Kapur
Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principle
Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found.
19 August 2023, by
The Conversation
The Strange: Scifi Mars robots meet real-world bounded rationality
Did you like the Western True Grit? Classic scifi like The Martian Chronicles? Scifi horror like Annihilation? Steam punk? How about robots? If yes to any or all of the above, The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud is for you!
15 August 2023, by
Robin Murphy
3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
A new, shape-shifting display can sense and respond to human touch.
12 August 2023, by
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Can charismatic robots help teams be more creative?
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.
09 August 2023, by
Frontiers Journals & Blog
An updated guide to Docker and ROS 2
2 years ago, I wrote A Guide to Docker and ROS, which is one of my most frequently viewed posts. Since then, I’ve had the chance to use Docker more in my work and have picked up some new tricks.
07 August 2023, by
Sebastian Castro
Interview with Roberto Figueiredo: the RoboCup experience
"Every time I go to RoboCup I come out thinking about what I’m going to do next. I couldn’t be more inspired."
04 August 2023, by
Lucy Smith and AIhub
Oceans to get better protection with connected underwater technology
Amid rising sea levels, plastics pollution and overfishing, the emerging Internet of Underwater Things will vastly expand knowledge about the world’s seas.
31 July 2023, by
Horizon Magazine