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Programmable soft materials unlock asymmetric motion for next-gen robot designs

These soft composites are highly programmable and remarkably fracture-resistant,” the researchers noted. They added that the ...
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Elephant robot bends, kicks, and twists using breakthrough programmable foam skeleton

A new robotics breakthrough could reshape how machines move, adapt, and interact with the world by mimicking biology itself. Engineers at EPFL have developed a programmable foam lattice that blends ...
ExtremeTech

Hugging Face Has a New Programmable AI Robot and It's Adorable

Available for just under $300, this little guy has pre-installed behaviors, but is designed to let you code your own. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...
Yahoo

Palm-sized robot dog performs back flips, lifelike movements, obeys voice commands

A Pittsburgh-based company has unveiled a palm-sized robot dog that obeys voice commands and even does backflips. The Bittle X, developed by Petoi, is an open-source programmable robot dog. Designed ...
Time

Unitree R1

From drones to self-driving cars, most robots today aren’t the humanoid versions imagined in science fiction. One exception is the R1 from China-based Unitree Robotics. Introduced in July with a ...
Morningstar

NTT Research Collaboration Breaks the “One Device, One Function” Paradigm with World’s First Programmable Nonlinear Photonics Chip

New paper published in Nature details NTT Research’s development of the world’s first programmable nonlinear photonic waveguide in collaboration with Cornell University and Stanford University. A ...