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Soft microrobots to rescue plants from pests receive $1M award
February 25, 2026
The USDA awarded Michigan researchers $1M to develop soft microrobots that climb plant stems to detect pests, led by Xiaonan Huang and Dmitry Berenson.
Using AI to improve 3D printing concrete
February 20, 2026
Professor Yulun Tian is developing an AI-enabled digital twin to monitor and correct robotic 3D concrete printing in real time, backed by a Bold Challenges Initiative award.
Open-source, modular robot for understanding evolution
February 11, 2026
A cost-effective, customizable quadruped could help researchers discover the particular advantages related to the length and segmentation of animal limbs.
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Watch this octopus-inspired soft gripper reshape its entire body to grab objects. Four pneumatic palm actuators change the gripper’s shape to match the object before contact. Four finger actuators then envelop the object on contact. Built-in bend se...
Softening the boundaries: the human, the physical, and the computationalJason Corso, as part of the ceremony to establish him as the Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence, presents this talk titled ...
The last few months in robotics? • soft micro robots that seek out pests in agriculture • open-source quadruped for studying evolution • a VEX U qualifier in the Ford Robotics Atrium and a lot more! All in our latest newsletter. https://t.co/dd...
