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Robotic hand made of self-healing material that can heal at room temperature

Machine learning to help develop self-healing robots that 鈥榝eel pain鈥

07 Aug 2019

Researchers from the 探花直播 of Cambridge will use self-healing materials and machine learning to develop soft robotics as part of a new...

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A robot arm picking lettuces

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

08 Jul 2019

A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by...

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Puppy, a running robot developed by Fumiya Iida鈥檚 team

Robots can go all the way to Mars, but they can鈥檛 pick up the groceries

21 Dec 2018

In the popular imagination, robots have been portrayed alternatively as friendly companions or existential threat. But while robots are becoming...

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Robot hand playing the piano

3D-printed robot hand 鈥榩lays鈥 the piano

19 Dec 2018

Scientists have developed a 3D-printed robotic hand which can play simple musical phrases on the piano by just moving its wrist. And while the robot...

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鈥淩obots can go all the way to Mars, but they can鈥檛 pick up the groceries鈥

18 Dec 2018

In the popular imagination, robots have been portrayed alternatively as friendly companions or existential threat. But while robots are becoming...

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Toothpaste

AI 'scientist' finds that toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria

18 Jan 2018

An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant...

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Deckard

Opinion: Could we build a Blade Runner-style 'replicant'?

05 Oct 2017

Could replicants ever be a reality? In this article from 探花直播Conversation , Fumiya Iida (Department of Engineering) discusses what it would take to...

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Science fiction vs science fact: World鈥檚 leading AI experts come to Cambridge

10 Jul 2017

Some of the world鈥檚 leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will gather in Cambridge this week to look at...

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robot hand

Opinion: We could soon face a robot crimewave 鈥 the law needs to be ready

16 Apr 2017

Are robots capable of committing crime? Yes, says Christopher Markou, PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, writing for 探花直播Conversation - but what...

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Rise and evolution of the Daleks

Opinion: How we built a robot that can evolve 鈥 and why it won鈥檛 take over the world

18 Dec 2015

Fumiya Iida (Department of Engineering) discusses the "mother" robot he has built with his colleagues, and why reacting to developments in robotics...

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Mother and child

On the origin of (robot) species

12 Aug 2015

Researchers have observed the process of evolution by natural selection at work in robots, by constructing a 鈥榤other鈥 robot that can design, build...

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Eve, the Robot Scientist

Artificially-intelligent Robot Scientist 鈥楨ve鈥 could boost search for new drugs

04 Feb 2015

Eve, an artificially-intelligent 鈥榬obot scientist鈥 could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...

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