A ‘Marty’ miniature walking robot, manufactured by Robotical, stands on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 27, 2018. The future of robotics is softer, squishier. MIT roboticist and AI expert Daniela Rus writes in FT Magazine that it’s getting easier to build robots, a process that “has traditionally been difficult, tedious and expensive.” Automation is entering the robot-building space, but not how one would expect. Her team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is close to building robots that can be designed by “free-form sketching and fabricated to actually walk right out of a […]
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