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Entrepreneurs Fighting Climate Change With Robots And Giant Mechanical Stomach

Mar 9, 2023 | Climate, Robots

A family of entrepreneurs teamed up with several other family dairy farmers to gain support from legislators and find investors interested in helping to fund the innovative transition they had in mind. With the groundwork laid, in 2013, the family installed a facility...

Grasshopping Robots Made Possible With New, Improved Latch Control

Mar 2, 2023 | Robots

If animals and insects can jump across grass and sand, why can’t robots? Sarah Bergbreiter, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has found that researchers don’t have to look far to enable this in robots. Existing latch mechanisms that were once thought of...

How Robots Can Help In The Fight Against Toxic Algae

Feb 23, 2023 | Environment, Oceanography, Robots

Harmful algae blooms in lakes are a major environmental problem, producing extremely dangerous toxins that can taint water supplies or harm other organic life—including people. Biologists can test water safety by collecting samples off the side of a boat, but getting...

Microsoft Researchers Are Using ChatGPT To Instruct Robots And Drones

Feb 23, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Featured, Robots

OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t just good at generating coherent text responses to natural language prompts — it can also play a role in human-to-robot interactions and use sensor feedback to write code for robot actions. Microsoft recently conducted...

Robot Eel Could Be Start Of New Breed Of ‘Voxel’ Robots

Feb 16, 2023 | Oceanography, Robots

Way back in 1994, engineers at MIT unveiled Robotuna. Inspired by the 160 million-year-old species, the aptly named, four-foot-long submersible robot required over 2,800 components, including 40 ribs, tendons, a vertebrae-like backbone, and even a Lycra covering...

Melting Robots Are the Future, Accept It

Feb 9, 2023 | Robots

If life as a kid in the 1980s and ’90s taught me anything, it’s that the rise of our machine overlords is a certainty. A new study shows remarkable progress being made in this area, with the development of a hyper-flexible multi-state material that is pretty...