Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024年10月16日 · Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter. A new method called Clio enables robots to quickly map a scene and identify the items they need to complete a given set of tasks.
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter - MIT News
2024年9月30日 · A robot can then apply that neural network to spot a dog in a totally new scene. But a challenge still remains as to how to parse a scene in a useful way that is relevant for a particular task. “Typical methods will pick some arbitrary, fixed level of granularity for determining how to fuse segments of a scene into what you can consider as ...
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots
2024年5月10日 · 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.
Making life friendlier with personal robots - MIT News
2023年9月10日 · She found one with great potential to make robots more helpful to people by working with Jibo, a friendly robot companion developed by the founder of the Personal Robots Group (PRG) and the social robot startup Jibo Inc., MIT Professor and Dean for Digital Learning Cynthia Breazeal. Breazeal's research explores the potential for companion ...
Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar ...
2024年8月8日 · The robot, which has an arm attached to its back, completed manipulation tasks after practicing for a few hours. In one demonstration, the robot learned how to securely place a ball and ring on a slanted table in roughly three hours. In another, the algorithm guided the machine to improve at sweeping toys into a bin within about two hours.
9 ways robots are helping humans: Robodogs to magnetic slime
2023年7月19日 · In Geneva, a social robot powered by AI – which looks uncannily like its creator, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann – has just been upgraded with ChatGPT-3 to improve its conversational skills. The robot, called Nadine, told Reuters it had sung and played bingo with residents at a nursing home in Singapore.
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”.
Cell-sized robots can sense their environment - MIT News
2018年7月23日 · MIT researchers have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. Made of electronic circuits coupled to minute particles, the devices could flow …
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT News
2022年12月21日 · Where empirical data indicates technology and trade have changed that wage distribution, the magnitude of that change helped produce the robot and trade tax estimates Costinot and Werning suggest. This has the benefit of simplicity; the overall wage numbers help the economists avoid making a model with too many assumptions about, say, the exact ...
A technique for more effective multipurpose robots - MIT News
2024年6月3日 · If we want to use a lot of data to train general robot policies, then we first need deployable robots to get all this data. I think that leveraging all the heterogeneous data available, similar to what researchers have done with ChatGPT, is an important step for the robotics field,” says Lirui Wang, an electrical engineering and computer ...