Computer-aided creativity in robot design Researchers' new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types Date: November 30, 2020 Source: Massachusetts Institute of ...

Rights to the PR2 robot landed in the hands of Clearpath Robotics, after Willow Garage was shut down in 2014. Clearpath is now providing access to the robot’s design files on its website.

Each robot is designed with a unique shape and structure to match its function. A 3-D printer then uses a silicone-based rubber material to bring that design to life.

Labeled as a "jewel-in-the-crown of space robotics," the robotic arm copies the fundamental design of a human arm, complete with its own elbow, shoulder, and wrist regions.

Showing off a “walking teapot” design, for instance, Wang describes how all of us may one day be robot makers. I think this whole thing is very instructive.

He and his colleagues instead turned to a method called gradient descent, which is more like directed evolution. The process starts with a randomly generated body design for the robot, but it ...

These "squishy robot fingers," as the researchers call them, allow for retrieval of delicate corals and animals that live too deep for human divers to harvest, and would be crushed by ordinary ...