Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oct 28, 2024 · Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics. A new method can train a neural network to sort corrupted data while anticipating next steps. It can make flexible plans for robots, generate high-quality video, and help AI agents navigate digital environments.
AI and robotics: How will robots help us in the future? | World ...
Feb 9, 2022 · Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to the emergence of a new class of robot. In the next five years, our households and workplaces will become dependent upon the role of robots, says Pieter Abbeel, the founder of UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab. Here he outlines a few standout examples.
What is a robot? - New Scientist
The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”.
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots
May 10, 2024 · Here, a reconfigurable robot learns to elongate and curve its soft body to weave around obstacles and reach a target. Image: Courtesy of the researchers “Such a robot could have thousands of small pieces of muscle to control, so it is very hard to learn in a traditional way,” says Chen.
Computer-aided creativity in robot design - MIT News
Nov 30, 2020 · Choosing the best robot design requires controlling each robot’s movements and evaluating its function. “Up until now, these robots are just structures,” says Zhao. The controller is the set of instructions that brings those structures to life, governing the movement sequence of the robot’s various motors.
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter - MIT News
Sep 30, 2024 · MIT engineers have developed a method that enables robots to make similarly intuitive, task-relevant decisions. The team’s new approach, named Clio, enables a robot to identify the parts of a scene that matter, given the tasks at hand. With Clio, a robot takes in a list of tasks described in natural language and, based on those tasks, it then ...
The new wave of robotic automation - MIT News
Jun 16, 2021 · Peter Howard SM ’84 is the CEO of Realtime Robotics, a startup transforming autonomous robot motion planning to enable seamless, affordable human-robot collaboration. Realtime Robotics has developed a combination of proprietary software and hardware that reduces system deployment time by 70 percent or more, reduces deployment costs by 30 ...
Discover how robots are transforming the medical industry | World ...
Sep 18, 2024 · Cutting-edge technologies can play a huge role in transforming the healthcare sector, says the World Economic Forum’s Global Health and Healthcare report. And the robotic-assisted surgery market is predicted to grow to over $14 billion by 2026, up from just over $10 billion in 2023. From doctor training to stroke rehabilitation, here are five ...
How to help humans understand robots - MIT News
Mar 2, 2022 · Researchers from MIT and Harvard suggest that applying theories from cognitive science and educational psychology to the area of human-robot interaction can help humans build more accurate mental models of their robot collaborators, which could boost performance and improve safety in cooperative workspaces. Credits. Image: MIT News, iStockphoto.
Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense
Mar 22, 2021 · That makes it tough to design a soft robot that can map the location of its body parts. Past efforts have used an external camera to chart the robot’s position and feed that information back into the robot’s control program. But the researchers wanted to create a soft robot untethered from external aid.