17 weird, wonderful and terrifying robots we saw at CES 2025 — from …
Jan 10, 2025 · From a Star Wars-style droid for your home to a Pixar-inspired lamp bot, these are the most interesting and innovative robots we've seen so far at CES.
New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
Dec 2, 2025 · System developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL and LIDS uses rigorous mathematics to ensure robots flex, adapt, and interact with people and objects in a safe and precise way. It helps …
Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials
Jul 4, 2025 · An MIT robotic probe quickly measures photoconductance in new semiconductor materials. By dramatically increasing the speed at which scientists can characterize these materials, this …
Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
Dec 10, 2025 · Like a growing vine, a new robotic gripper can snake around and lift a variety of objects, including a glass vase and a watermelon, offering a gentler approach than conventional gripper …
Robotics: News, features and articles | Live Science
Feb 17, 2026 · Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles.
Bresa: Bio-inspired Reflexive Safe Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Tasks
Ensuring safety in reinforcement learning (RL)-based robotic systems is a critical challenge, especially in contact-rich tasks within unstructured environments. While the state-of-the-art safe RL approaches mitigate risks through safe exploration or...
Collective Conditioned Reflex: A Bio-Inspired Fast Emergency Reaction Mechanism for Design…
A multi-robot system (MRS) is a group of coordinated robots designed to cooperate with each other and accomplish given tasks. Due to the uncertainties in operating environments, the system may encounter emergencies, such as unobserved obstacles, movi...
BioHazard - Wikipedia
BioHazard is a combat robot built by rocket scientist Carlo Bertocchini. It was the most successful robot in the heavyweight division of BattleBots. It
robotarium/vizier
A networking framework built on top of MQTT to allow the communication and synchronization of distributed, language-independent resources. (⭐ 11)
Proceedings of the SREC (Social Robots in Therapy and Care) Workshop at HRI 2019
Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT) has successfully been used in Human Robot Interaction (HRI) research by including social robots in health-care interventions by virtue of their ability to engage human users in both social and emotional dimensions. Robots...
From Power to Precision: Learning Fine-grained Dexterity for Multi-fingered Robotic Hands
Human grasps can be roughly categorized into two types: power grasps and precision grasps. Precision grasping enables tool use and is believed to have influenced human evolution. Today's multi-fingered robotic hands are effective in power grasps, but...
Real-time Kinematic Ground Truth for the Oxford RobotCar Dataset
We describe the release of reference data towards a challenging long-term localisation and mapping benchmark based on the large-scale Oxford RobotCar Dataset. The release includes 72 traversals of a route through Oxford, UK, gathered in all illuminat...
Harnessing with Twisting: Single-Arm Deformable Linear Object Manipulation for Industrial…
Wire-harnessing tasks pose great challenges to be automated by the robot due to the complex dynamics and unpredictable behavior of the deformable wire. Traditional methods, often reliant on dual-robot arms or tactile sensing, face limitations in adap...
Robot Framework - Wikipedia
Robot Framework is a generic software test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It is a keyword-driven
Multiple Object Detection, Tracking and Long-Term Dynamics Learning in Large 3D Maps
In this work, we present a method for tracking and learning the dynamics of all objects in a large scale robot environment. A mobile robot patrols the environment and visits the different locations one by one. Movable objects are discovered by change...
LEA*: An A* Variant Algorithm with Improved Edge Efficiency for Robot Motion Planning
In this work, we introduce a new graph search algorithm, lazy edged based A* (LEA*), for robot motion planning. By using an edge queue and exploiting the idea of lazy search, LEA* is optimally vertex efficient similar to A*, and has improved edge eff...
Robotic ‘finger’ could perform your next intimate physical exam | Researchers have develop…
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Pushing in the Dark: A Reactive Pushing Strategy for Mobile Robots Using Tactile Feedback
For mobile robots, navigating cluttered or dynamic environments often necessitates non-prehensile manipulation, particularly when faced with objects that are too large, irregular, or fragile to grasp. The unpredictable behavior and varying physical p...
HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/VINS-Mono
A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator (⭐ 5788)
From pixels to percepts: Highly robust edge perception and contour following using deep le…
Deep learning has the potential to have the impact on robot touch that it has had on robot vision. Optical tactile sensors act as a bridge between the subjects by allowing techniques from vision to be applied to touch. In this paper, we apply deep le...