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1,560 results for: Robotics

  1. Tech

    Robots are gaining new capabilities thanks to plants and fungi

    Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.

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  2. Tech

    A hopping robot shows off its squirrel-like skills

    Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

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  3. Physics

    Hula-hooping robots reveal the physics behind keeping rings aloft

    The gyrations of hoop-slinging robots reveal that hourglass-shaped objects are best at keeping a hoop in the air.

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  4. Animals

    Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake

    From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

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  5. Artificial Intelligence

    Reinforcement learning AI might bring humanoid robots to the real world

    Reinforcement learning techniques could be the keys to integrating robots — who use machine learning to output more than words — into the real world.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    It’s tricky to transplant a bladder. How surgeons finally did it

    The person who received the bladder is doing well, and the successful transplant could offer hope to thousands of people with bladder dysfunction.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Brain-controlled bionic limbs are inching closer to reality

    Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.

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  8. Tech

    A new 3-D display lets you reach in and touch virtual objects

    These hands-on displays might be used to create more immersive video games, educational tools and museum exhibits.

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  9. Artificial Intelligence

    This robot can tell when you’re about to smile — and smile back

    Using machine learning, researchers trained Emo to make facial expressions in sync with humans.

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  10. Space

    Two privately-owned spacecraft make contact from the moon

    Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

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  11. Planetary Science

    NASA’s Perseverance rover found a new potential setting for Martian life

    Now atop Jezero Crater, the robotic explorer found quartz indicative of habitable environments and possibly the oldest rocks yet seen in the solar system.

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  12. Animals

    Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water

    Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

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