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Robotics news, features and articles - Live Science
Oct 29, 2025 · Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles.
Chinese scientists build fastest humanoid robot in the world — it …
Oct 18, 2024 · Chinese humanoid robot is the 'fastest in the world' thanks to its trusty pair of sneakers News By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published October 18, 2024
This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in ... - MIT …
Jan 15, 2025 · New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to …
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter - MIT News
Sep 30, 2024 · MIT engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of tasks.
New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in …
Jun 5, 2025 · A new system enables a robot to “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds.
Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in ... - MIT …
Oct 16, 2024 · When applied to fields like computer vision and robotics, the next-token and full-sequence diffusion models have capability trade-offs. Next-token models can spit out …
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots - MIT News
May 10, 2024 · A new machine-learning technique can train and control a reconfigurable soft robot that can dynamically change its shape to complete a task. The researchers, from MIT and …
Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger
Nov 22, 2022 · MIT researchers made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than …
Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to ... - MIT …
Aug 8, 2024 · A robot rapidly specializes its skills using parameter policy learning, where the machine can rapidly specialize at specific, smaller actions within a long-horizon task. The MIT …