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Jul 11, 2025 · Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful …
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 …
This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical ...
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 …
Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic …
Jul 7, 2025 · Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their …
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — …
Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous …
Apr 30, 2025 · Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, …
Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping …
Apr 24, 2025 · MIT 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. The system could be …
MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 …
Feb 10, 2025 · Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.
Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, …
May 1, 2024 · MIT CSAIL researchers create three neurosymbolic methods to help language models build libraries of better abstractions within natural language: LILO assists with code …
Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Apr 3, 2023 · MIT-developed soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects …