How AI Is Quietly Becoming Public Health’s Newest Weapon Against Waste Dangers
A systematic review of 81 studies finds that artificial intelligence is reducing infectious, toxic, and occupational health risks across the ...
Tag: Robotics
Robots Learn to Grasp Crumpled Fabric the Way Humans Do
A robotic system that imitates human perception of raised fabric structures and fuzzy decision-making achieves a 93.3 percent grasp success ...
Artificial skin with brain-like wiring gives humanoid robots a human sense of touch
Researchers have built a large-scale iontronic skin with more than 10,000 sensing units and a neural-hierarchical processing architecture that lets ...
Computing with Light Before the Sensor: A New Vision Pipeline for Physical AI
A Tsinghua University review details how optical pre-sensor computing embeds computation into light propagation before detection, promising efficient visual perception ...
Robots Learn to Imagine the Future Before Acting: New Diffusion Policy Gives Dual-Arm Machines Predictive Foresight
A new hierarchical AI framework called WIS pairs a language-driven world model with a diffusion policy, letting bimanual robots forecast ...
AI Learns to Diagnose Broken Robots by Making Them Collide
Researchers have trained a reinforcement learning system that autonomously plans collisions between robots to determine whether a malfunctioning agent's fault ...
Spiking Neural Networks Learn Faster When They Can Predict What Happens Next
The study, published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics by researchers at Chiba Institute of Technology, arrives at a moment when the ...
Robots That See Ahead: New AI Framework Teaches Two Arms to Predict and Coordinate Their Next Moves
A new diffusion-based framework called PACE-DP predicts how interaction relationships between two robotic arms and objects will evolve, delivering higher ...
Hybrid Micro-Gripper Brings Vacuum and Finger Grasping Together for Tiny Electronics
Researchers have developed an open-source hybrid micro-gripper that combines vacuum and friction grasping to handle SMT components from 0.5 to ...
AI System Teaches Robots to Dismantle Dead Batteries With Human Help
A new AI planning system combines a single-call language model, a verifier, and a deterministic grounding filter to help robots ...
Synchronized Motors and Precision PWM Keep Solar Panel Cleaning Robots on Track
Researchers have simulated a servo control system that uses multi-motor synchronization and precise PWM control to keep photovoltaic cleaning robots ...
Single-Camera AI Drone Outraces Former World Champion Human Pilots at 100 km/h
Researchers at TU Delft have developed MonoRace, an AI system that flew a racing drone at up to 100 km/h ...
Robots in the ICU: Scientists Define What Robot-Assisted Nursing Care Really Means
A Walker and Avant concept analysis published in BMC Nursing defines intelligent robot-assisted care in critical care nursing through four ...
Swarm Upgrade Helps Mobile Robots Find Shorter, Smoother Paths
Researchers have developed a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm that outperforms eight competing heuristics in mobile robot path planning, cutting ...
Self-Powered Sensor Measures Rotation With Arcsecond Precision Using Triboelectric Nanogenerator
Researchers have developed a self-powered angular displacement sensor that combines triboelectric nanogenerator technology with time-grating signal processing to achieve arcsecond-level ...
Sliding Robot Could Feed Induction Furnaces Faster and Keep Workers Safe
Engineers in Uganda have designed and simulated a two-axis sliding robotic system that charges scrap into electric induction furnaces at ...
Neural Network Meets Super-Twisting Control to Make Robot Arms Move With Unprecedented Precision
Researchers in China have combined an online-learning radial basis function neural network with super-twisting sliding-mode control to achieve chattering-free, high-precision ...
Robots Learn to Feel Pressure Through Cameras Alone, Thanks to Multimodal AI
A new multimodal AI framework fuses RGB images, segmentation masks, depth maps, and text prompts to estimate robotic gripper pressure ...
Spring-Loaded Parallelogram Gripper Adapts Its Fingers to Any Object Shape
Engineers in China have designed an adaptive robotic gripper that uses spring-loaded parallelogram linkages and a dual-motor bevel gear drive ...
NIH Pioneer Award Funds AI Scientist Engine to Accelerate Cancer Discovery
Weill Cornell Medicine's Dr. Olivier Elemento has won a nearly $6 million NIH Director's Pioneer Award to build an AI-human ...
