‘Alien-like’ AI robot can evolve and repair itself after being chopped into pieces

Engineers in the United States have created AI-powered robots that can evolve and reconfigure themselves, as well as recover from damage. The alien-like machines, described as ‘legged metamachines’, ...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

‘ATLAS’ System Lifts Johns Hopkins APL Leadership in Automated Experimentation

An interdisciplinary APL team created ATLAS, an artificial intelligence co-investigator that automates testing, learning, and synthesis for microcapsules, which has decreased human labor required per ...

These Self-Configuring Modular Robots May One Day Rule the World

Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two ...
IEEE

Yummy Operations Robot Initiative: An Autonomous Cooking System Utilizing a Modular Robotic Kitchen and Dual-Arm Proprioceptive Manipulator

This article presents Yummy Operations Robot Initiative (YORI), a proprioceptive dual-arm robotic system that demonstrates autonomous multidish cooking for scalable food service applications. YORI ...
Tech Xplore

Robots that refuse to fail: AI evolves 'legged metamachines' that reassemble and withstand injury

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...
IEEE

Safe Approximate Optimal Control of Nonzero-Sum Games for Modular Robot Manipulator Systems Based on Control Barrier Functions

Abstract: The article introduces an approximate optimal control strategy grounded in the control barrier function (CBF) to address the challenges of ensuring safety in modular robot manipulators (MRMs ...