Abstract: This paper presents Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning (SPI-DP), a novel first-order optimizer capable of optimizing robot programs with respect to both high-level task ...

Below the waves off Germany's northern tourist beaches, a toxic time bomb lurks on the Baltic Sea floor -- enormous quantities of World War II munitions that are slowly rusting away. Scientists warn ...

A group of talented and dedicated kids – a mixture of homeschooled, private and public school students – have pooled together ...

Abstract: This study presents a novel person-following system for mobile robots equipped with a small obstacle avoidance mechanism. The system integrates Grounding DINO for open-vocabulary object ...

Robotic machining has grown in popularity in recent years, driven by lower robot costs and increased flexibility. Compared with large CNC machines, industrial robots are relatively inexpensive, easy ...

In all honesty, a robot plumber might be better than a real plumber. It could be programmed to show up on time, take off its shoes in your apartment, charge only what’s fair and necessary, and not ...

A Chinese laboratory has reportedly demonstrated the control of a humanoid robot via space-based computing. The experiment was conducted by GuoXing Aerospace Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong ...

Using an EEG cap, researchers detect brain signals and feed them into a shared-control robot.Oklahoma State University Robots can follow commands, but they still fail at recognizing a mistake before ...

What’s the difference between a Roomba and “The Jetsons” robot maid, Rosie? It’s not a joke, it’s a challenge University of Maryland doctoral student Seungjae “Jay” Lee is tackling in hopes of ...

The U.S. Navy and GSA will pay Gecko Robotics $71 million to use its drones and AI to inspect ships, jets, and other gear, part of the service’s effort to reach 80 percent fleet readiness next year ...