Month: March 2018

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Video Friday: Dexterous Humanoid, Self-Driving Car Naps, and Passenger Drones

Researchers have discovered a process for engineering next-generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural tissue. The breakthrough material may lead to autonomous soft robotics, dual sensors and actuators for soft exoskeletons, or artificial skins.
Scientists mimic neural tissue in new research

A research team has developed an origami-inspired robotic arm that is foldable, self-assembling and also highly-rigid.
Origami-inspired self-locking foldable robotic arm

A machine learning algorithm for detecting ripeness levels in papaya fruit could help both shoppers and producers

AI Detects Papaya Ripeness

Shelly is fun to play with, but if you hit it, it’ll hide inside its shell until it’s safe to come out again

Robotic Tortoise Helps Kids to Learn That Robot Abuse Is a Bad Thing

The $10 million ANA Avatar XPRIZE is a four-year competition focused on accelerating the integration of emerging and
XPrize ANA Avatar

Sophisticated sensors and autonomous navigation set Ava apart from other telepresence robots

iRobot Spinoff Ava Robotics Introduces Autonomous Telepresence Robot

A deep neural network that’s mapped to the innards of a yeast cell reveals its inner workings

Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology

Researchers have fused living and non-living cells for the first time in a way that allows them to work together, paving the way for new applications.
Artificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories