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Apr 9, 2025a hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy. Dec 19, 2025robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies neural jacobian fields, developed by mit csail researchers, can learn to control any robot.

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”. Jul 10, 2025robots are helping humans in a growing number of places – from archaeological sites to disaster zones and sewers. The most recent robotic inventions can entertain people in care homes.

Jul 24, 2025a vision-based control system called neural jacobian fields enables soft and rigid robots to learn self-supervised motion control using only a monocular camera. Jan 28, 2025mit associate professor luca carlone works to give robots a more human-like perception of their environment, so they can interact with people safely and seamlessly. Aug 8, 2024a robot rapidly specializes its skills using parameter policy learning, where the machine can rapidly specialize at specific, smaller actions within a long-horizon task.

Apr 24, 2025mit roboticists developed a way to cut through data noise and help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most relevant for assisting humans. Jul 23, 2025from r2d2 to the terminator via bender and johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series May 13, 2025the robot consists of a heavy, 220-pound base whose dimensions and structure were optimized to support the weight of an average human without tipping or slipping.