Drones & Robotics– category –

ScienceDaily USA Overview MIT researchers have developed an innovative AI control system that dramatically boosts the performance of an insect-sized flying robot, increasing its speed by approximately 450% and acceleration by 250%. This ...

PDF (Accessed via Google Search) International Overview Researchers have successfully developed genetically engineered human cell-based microrobots that selectively induce apoptosis and eliminate multiple cancer cell types. This biohybri...

Defense Contract Management Agency (DVIDS) USA Overview A battery-powered Group 1 fixed-wing drone set an astonishing flight endurance record of 521 minutes and 43 seconds at the Defense Contract Management Agency's 'Game of Drones' even...

EurekAlert! Netherlands Overview Researchers at Delft University of Technology have developed lightweight, rat-whisker-inspired tactile sensors, successfully integrating them into small autonomous drones. This artificial whisker system e...

AZoSensors.com UK Overview Researchers have developed next-generation tactile sensors that endow robots with human-like sensing capabilities for pressure, surface texture, and temperature. These sensors integrate pressure detection, vibr...

Cool Papers Unknown Overview A new framework, "SpectRobot," has achieved a breakthrough in robot tactile perception by converting single-point tactile signals into high-bandwidth time-frequency spectrograms. This method leverages the ric...

arXiv International Overview The "HIL-UMI" paper introduces a policy-guided Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) framework for robot-agnostic human-in-the-loop post-training of VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models. HIL-UMI queries the c...

arXiv International Overview A new arXiv paper introduces Grounded Action Models (GAMs), a novel paradigm for robot foundation models built on 3D grounding, achieving up to 61% average success rates. GAMs can be conditioned using languag...

arXiv International Overview A novel framework, DexTouch-WM, successfully learns predictive models for contact-rich dexterous robot manipulation from scalable human tactile data. This model can jointly forecast future RGB observations an...

DRONELIFE USA Overview U.S. battery cell manufacturer Rincell unveiled its NDAA-compliant tabless 21700 lithium-ion cell, 'RC50T,' at DroneX. Designed specifically for drones, this new cell features 100A continuous discharge, 150A pulse ...