Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots
By WSJ Published on May 16, 2025 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines could be something radically different. Think soft and squishy robots, says Daniela Rus. Picture flexible robots, or even edible ones. Her research group […]
This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
By THE__BYTE Published on May 16, 2025 As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds. “Centipede robots, like snake robots, are basically swimmers,” founder Dan Goldman told IEEE Spectrum. “We created a new kind of mechanism to […]