Robots are getting closer to having senses – Metro Puerto Rico

Humans give it human-like senses. These can range from skin and some muscles to a whole face, including muscles, and can even help you cook. Metro introduces you to the best of the best.

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Researchers from the University of Tokyo, Japanhave found a way to attach artificial skin tissue to the complex shapes of humanoid robots. This could give the robotic platform advantages such as greater mobility, self-healing capabilities, Integrated sensors As well as an increasingly realistic look. Inspired by the ligaments in human skin, the team added special perforations to the robot’s face, which helped to attach a layer of skin.

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Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that allows robots to move by expanding and contracting, just like human muscles. To demonstrate your new device, It is called an actuator. The researchers used it to create a cylindrical worm-shaped soft robot with an artificial bicep. In experiments, the cylindrical soft robot passed through sharp and tight curves in a narrow tube-like environment, and the biceps were able to lift a 500-gram weight 5,000 times in a row without failure.

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Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a stretchy electronic skin that USAThe new stretchable electronic skin solves a major bottleneck in emerging technologies. Electronic skin Existing versions would lose detection accuracy as the material stretched, but this is not the case with the new version.

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have successfully used biological sensor From insects. The sensors send electrical signals in response to the presence of nearby odors, which the robot can detect and interpret. The researchers managed to connect the biosensors to an electronic system and use a machine learning algorithm to identify odors with a sensitivity 10,000 times greater than commonly used electronic devices.

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In 2022, researchers at the University of Cambridge worked with appliance manufacturer Beko to train their chef robot to assess the saltiness of dishes at different stages of the chewing process, mimicking a similar process in humans. Their results could help develop automated or semi-automated food preparation, as they will help robots understand what tastes good and what doesn’t, making them better cooks.