#441492 A plant-inspired controller that could ...

Many existing robotics systems draw inspiration from nature, artificially reproducing biological processes, natural structures or animal behaviors to achieve specific goals. This is because animals and plants are innately equipped with abilities that help them to survive in their respective environments, and that could thus also improve the performance of robots outside of laboratory settings.[Read more…]

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#441490 Will AI robots take middle-class jobs?

Our newsfeeds are filled with talk about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in software such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, which can quickly—albeit haphazardly—generate works such as essays and photographs from a text prompt. Reading these, you might be excused for thinking that writers and photographers are soon to go the way of the elevator operator, automated out of existence.[Read more…]

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#441486 MIT Multirobot Mapping Sets New “Gold ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you sure? And what about all of its robot friends—do they know where they are too? This is important. So important, in fact, that some would say that multirobot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain timely situational awareness over large areas. Those some would be a group […] Continue Reading…

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#441484 Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. This week, we’re featuring a special selection of videos from ICRA 2023! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USARoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCERSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREAIEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August […] Continue Reading…

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#441480 Barkour benchmark measures quadruped ...

The accelerated pace of robotics development has given us a veritable zoo filled with creatures sometimes indistinguishable from the real deal.[Read more…]

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