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Team Homer teaches TIAGo to autonomously clean a toilet, and it’s about time

Robots Finally Learning to Clean the Bathroom

Android faces must express greater emotion if robots are to interact with humans more effectively. Researchers tackled this challenge as they upgraded their android child head, named Affetto. They precisely examined Affetto’s facial surface points and the precise balancing of different forces necessary to achieve more human-like motion. Through mechanical measurements and mathematical modeling, they were able to use their findings to greatly enhance Affetto’s range of emotional expression.
Android child's face strikingly expressive

How a new generation of grippers with improved 3D perception and tactile sensing is learning to manipulate a wide variety of objects

Robots Getting a Grip on General Manipulation

But Zume’s investors have given it unicorn status anyway

Zume, the Robotic Pizza Company, Makes Pies Only a Robot Could Love

In a quest for penny-priced plastic sensors, Arm and its partners are demonstrating a stripped-down form of machine learning

Arm Leads Project to Develop an Armpit-Sniffing Plastic AI Chip

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A new tactile sensor can detect surface shapes and structures, showing advantages over existing sensors, according to new research.
Artificial sensor mimics human sense of touch

Researchers have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made it bionic, supercharging it with 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria that generate electricity and swirls of graphene nanoribbons that can collect the current.
'Bionic mushrooms' fuse nanotech, bacteria and fungi

A robot can assemble a car door or pack a box much faster and more efficiently than any
Designing autonomous robots that change shape to adapt to challenging environments