Duke engineers created solid blocks that can reprogram stiffness on demand, enabling robots to change motion without rebuilding.

The app gives developers a centralized workspace to manage multiple AI coding agents across projects without losing task ...

We introduce TASTE-Rob: 1) a dataset with 100,856 task-oriented hand-object interaction videos, 2) a three-stage pose-refinement video generation pipeline. With the above contributions, TASTE-Rob is ...

That was three years ago, and since then, campus robots, billboards and an explosion of campus commercialization have cheapened the lifestyle of our campus and community.

Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

Abstract: Robotic dexterous manipulation is a challenging problem due to high degrees of freedom (DoFs) and complex contacts of multifingered robotic hands. Many existing deep reinforcement ...

Abstract: This letter presents a modular coupled tendon-driven robotichand that employs a 2 motor 2 degrees-of-freedom (2M2D) coupled tendon driven joint module, in which two motors operate in a ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.