Interesting Engineering

MIT’s robot boat swarm turns waterways into adaptive floating infrastructure

MIT's FloatForm swarm robot boats self-assemble into floating platforms for bridges, emergency response and adaptive ...
IEEE

Robust and Scalable Multi-Robot Localization Using Stereo UWB Arrays

Abstract: In environments where robots operate with limited global navigation satellite system accessibility, ultra-wideband (UWB) localization technology is a popular auxiliary solution to assist ...
IEEE

Cooperative Control Framework for Dual-Arm Robot Enhanced by Vision Language Model and Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: This paper presents a cooperative control framework for dual-arm robots that integrates vision-language models (VLMs) with online reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance autonomy and ...
Frontiers

Legged robot could accelerate resource prospecting on the Moon and the search for life on Mars

Legged robot performing analogue tests in Marslabor at the University of Basel. Credit: Dr Tomaso Bontognali. Dr Gabriela Ligeza is a former PhD student from the University of Basel and now a ...
Crypto Briefing

Nvidia GEAR lab develops ENPIRE framework for fully autonomous robot training

Nvidia just built a system that lets AI agents walk into a robot lab and figure out how to teach the robots themselves. No human hand-holding, no step-by-step programming. Just coding agents, robotic ...