This breakthrough represents a further step towards achieving more natural and easily teachable service robots capable of performing assistive tasks in domestic environments.

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A new robotic hand resembles a beloved character from the Addams Family franchise. Like the sentient human hand called Thing, the mechanical limb can scurry around and operate on its own—in ways a ...

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The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

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According to Sawyer Merritt, Tesla has posted 110 open job listings specifically for its Optimus robot program, signaling aggressive expansion in AI-powered robotics. Elon Musk confirmed that Optimus ...

Abstract: This paper presents a robot path generation system using Mixed Reality (MR) for 6-DoF robot programming. The system requires only the robot arm, MR glasses, and a printed marker to ...