In ‘The Electric State,’ Jolting a Robot to Life
How the makers of a new Netflix science fiction movie enhanced the look of the cute, round-headed bot at its center.
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Ten Robot Mechanisms For Your Design Toolbox
Three of the designs are capstan mechanisms, with different motors and layouts, tested for [Paul]’s latest quadruped robot. Capstan mechanisms are a few centuries old, and were originally used ...
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Design And 3D Print Robots With Interactive Robogami
[Image source: MIT CSAIL] Robot design traditionally separates the body ... and crank out useful prototypes cheaply using just about any old 3D printer? That’s where Interactive Robogami ...
MIPS shifts strategy toward robots and designing chips
MIPS, a decades-old Silicon Valley company that once competed directly with Arm Holdings in providing a computing ...
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AI was told to design a robot that could walk. Within seconds, it generated a 'small, squishy, and misshapen' thing that spasms.
When a group of researchers asked an AI to design a robot that could walk, it created a "small, squishy and misshapen" thing that walks by spasming when filled with air. The researchers ...