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AI cleaning robot can tidy up clothes in a messy bedroom

Cameras and a grasping arm help this robot pick up a pile of discarded clothes and put them in a laundry basket

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This robot can manage to pick up several items of clothing at once

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Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own

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Working with robots can make humans put in less effort

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Humans and robots working together on an industrial assembly line
The Fractal Hand-II: Reviving a Classic Mechanism for Contemporary Grasping Challenges https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08766

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Fractal fingers could let robots securely grasp any shape

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.09979.pdf General In-Hand Object Rotation with Vision and Touch Figure 1: Rotation over multiple axes by integrating proprioception, vision, and touch sensing. RotateIt is trained in simulation and deployed directly to the real-world, where it generalizes to diverse test objects without the need for fine-tuning

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Robotic hand has the dexterity to handle tricky objects with care

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Robot injects drugs into back of eyeball more accurately than surgeons

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Plumbing service. steel of a heating system in boiler room

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Tentacle robot can bend through pipes and unscrew bolts

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The AlphaGarden robotic gardener

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Robot gardener grows plants as well as humans do but uses less water

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NimbRo avatar robot plays chess

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We test real-world robot avatars used in security and nuclear repair

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Alex Wilkins tests out EVE, a humanoid robot at ICRA

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My out-of-body experience controlling a robotic avatar

New Scientist's Alex Wilkins finds out what it's like to become a robotic security guard. Could human android operators become standard in the near future?

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An outstretched pointer finger has a translucent skin wrapped around it. This electronic skin shows black sensors and circuitry embedded within.

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Stretchy electronic skin responds to touch and pressure like real skin

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These robots use magnets to cling to the ceiling

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Ceiling robots can reconfigure room lights and curtains

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More legs, more stability on rough terrain

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Centipede robots with more legs are better at walking over bumps

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Watch a weird robot wiggle and flap like a seal moving on land

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