Low-Cost Robot Finds Its Way Indoors Using Bluetooth Signals Instead of LiDAR
Autonomous robots that can find their way through hospitals, offices and warehouses usually depend on expensive hardware. LiDAR-based simultaneous localization ...
Tag: Robotics
Research report: Human-centered AI and robotics
A position paper argues that robots' direct, unmediated coupling with the physical world makes human-centered AI and robotics a distinct ...
In simulations, agentic AI flies drones that inspect typhoon damage without human pilots
A new simulation study reports that an agentic AI and UAV system cut simulated post-typhoon inspection times by 34.5 to ...
Research report: Vision based steering control using convolutional neural networks with latency analysis and microcontroller based actuation
A CNN running on a host PC with Arduino-based servo actuation predicted steering angles with a validation MAE of 0.093 ...
Scoping review maps 84 studies of mirror therapy and soft robotic gloves after stroke
A scoping review charted 84 studies of mirror therapy, soft robotic gloves, and their combined use in upper-limb rehabilitation after ...
AI Learns Robot Arm Dynamics in Simulation, Halving Tracking Error on a UR5 Manipulator
A simulation-only study on a UR5 robot arm shows Gaussian Process Regression most accurately predicts joint torques, while optimized adaptive ...
Robots and Humans Team Up to Tear Apart Old Phones in Simulated Recycling Line
Researchers simulated a six-station human-robot disassembly line for end-of-life phones, reporting an average simulated processing time of 95.54 seconds per ...
Robot planner keeps following people even when they vanish from view
A new local planner maintains a probabilistic estimate of a hidden person's position, letting indoor robots keep following targets through ...
Lightweight SLAM System Helps Robots Navigate Crowded, Changing Scenes
EVS-SLAM combines a deployment-adapted segmentation network with dynamic-feature filtering to keep robot localization accurate on embedded hardware, cutting trajectory error ...
Reinforcement learning upgrade helps robots stay steady in chaotic environments
An enhanced asynchronous actor-critic framework trained in simulation and on a physical mobile robot showed faster convergence, higher throughput, and ...
Scoping Review Maps Husserl’s Explicit Role in Artificial Intelligence Research
A scoping review in Discover Artificial Intelligence finds that only 32 of 5,594 retrieved records explicitly anchor AI or robotics ...
A survey of world models for physical AI with uncertainty representation and control
A technical survey finds that reliable physical AI depends on co-designing learned world models, uncertainty representation, prediction horizons and closed-loop ...
Review proposes explicit-intent framework for embodied AI
A peer-reviewed review proposes IDEAI, a framework for representing, checking and revising the intent that guides embodied AI actions in ...
CARL adds stability guarantees to reinforcement-learning robot control
A reinforcement-learning method combining contraction theory was tested in simulation and on three robot platforms, providing stability guarantees and improving ...
Solid-state batteries: a new frontier for robotics
A new analysis argues that solid-state batteries could transform robotics, revealing that a single commercial robot consumes an EV-equivalent 60 ...
Sliding Mode Control Teaches Omnidirectional Robots to Dodge Obstacles
Researchers combined artificial potential field trajectory planning with a discrete integral terminal sliding mode controller to let a Mecanum-wheeled omnidirectional ...
Robots Learn to Grab Any Fruit With 99 Percent Accuracy in Cluttered Scenes
Researchers developed lightweight neural networks and a new RGB-D dataset that let robots detect accurate grasps for fruits of varying ...
Robots Learn by Denoising: How Diffusion Models Are Rewiring Machine Control
A comprehensive new review traces how diffusion models, the generative engines behind modern image synthesis, have become the dominant force ...
Python Library pytransform3d Adds Transformation Graphs, Uncertainty Handling, and 3D Visualization for Robotics
Researchers at DFKI and the University of Bremen present new pytransform3d features for transformation graphs, uncertainty propagation, and 3D visualization, ...
Robot Learns to See and Solve: New Vision-Control Framework Cracks the Rubik’s Cube on Consumer Hardware
The Rubik's Cube has long served as a demanding benchmark for autonomous systems precisely because it compresses so many difficulties ...
