moth robot grows its own sensors from artificial blood
Researchers have built a moth-inspired robot that grows working light sensors directly on its body using an artificial blood that circulates inside the machine, with the sensors forming in the…
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ETH Zurich's ANYmal-D solves a giant Rubik's Cube with its feet
ETH Zurich's ANYmal-D robot has scanned and solved a giant Rubik's Cube using only its feet, combining conventional planning with learned whole-body control. The feat was a lab demonstration, not a…
Japan's Hacchan robot dogs patrol for bears
Akita Prefectural University in Japan is developing Hacchan robot dogs to detect and deter bears near settlements. The project is still in development, and coordinated patrols are awaiting field…
UCLA's open-source humanoid: walks at ~$400 in hardware
UCLA researchers have built an open-source humanoid robot that walks, tracks people and gets back up again, using inexpensive hardware and a smartphone as its computer, at a total cost of about $400.…