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By Meredith BowerDirector of CommunicationsMcDonogh School When McDonogh School’s robotics team, Electric Slide, hosted a pumpkin chuckin' booth at the ...

The new coding model is the first time the brand has found its own models can be instrumental in its own development.

Explore advanced physics with **“Modeling Sliding Bead On Tilting Wire Using Python | Lagrangian Explained.”** In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to simulate the motion of a bead sliding on a ...

In this paper, we propose NeRD (Neural Robot Dynamics), learned robot-specific dynamics models for predicting future states for articulated rigid bodies under contact constraints. NeRD uniquely ...

Abstract: Whole-body loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms remains a challenging problem, particularly in achieving multi-task control. To address this, we propose MLM, a reinforcement ...

Abstract: The inherent compliant nature of soft robots can offer remarkable advantages over their rigid counterparts in terms of safety to human users and adaptability in unstructured environments.

MURRIETA, CA — Murrieta high school seniors with dreams of changing the world can now apply for a $50,000 scholarship through the Edison Scholars program for the class of 2026. The Edison ...

Manatee County students learn about surgical robot Students in Manatee County got a hands-on chance to operate a surgical robot that's used to perform surgeries and save lives at Manatee Memorial ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

A quadruped robot has learned to walk across slippery, uneven terrain entirely through simulation, without any human-designed gaits or manual tuning. The system relies on deep reinforcement learning ...

The new 1X World Model enables NEO to turn any request into an AI capability on demand.1X Technologies 1X has rolled out a major AI update for its humanoid robot NEO, introducing what it calls the 1X ...