Category: Robotics
The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots
By Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch something gently, safely or meaningfully, and the limits appear instantly. As a researcher in […]
Researchers create programmable, autonomous robots smaller than a grain of rice
Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of Michigan researchers.
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