Category: Robotics
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Better prosthetics: $3M to develop more natural robotic leg control
An effort to create a control model that moves seamlessly between different activities like standing, walking and climbing stairs is renewed by the National Institutes of Health.
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Choosing exoskeleton settings like a Pandora radio station
Using a simple and convenient touchscreen interface, the algorithm learns the assistance preferences of the wearer.
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Toyota Research Institute and Michigan Engineering discuss importance of long-standing partnership
As the auto industry expands beyond transportation, university collaborations are more important than ever.
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$3.1M to transform post-stroke mobility treatment
A new tool to measure essential properties of the ankle joint—and an exploration of whether botulinum toxin injections are helpful—could help survivors walk better.
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Building curious machines
We know more about Mars than our own oceans and lakes. Could artificial intelligence provide answers?
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For the first time, controlling the degree of twist in nanostructure particles
Being able to decide not only whether a micron-scale particle twists but also how much could open new avenues for machine vision and more.
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U-M researchers aim to bring humans back into the loop, as AI use and misuse rises
The study aims to help society, including regulators considering AI safety regulations and organizations considering adopting AI, understand the societal implications of ever-smarter machines.
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Simple neural networks outperform the state-of-the-art for controlling robotic prosthetics
And that tracks with the way our motor circuits work—we’re not that complicated.
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Senior hires stand out in an impressive year for faculty hiring
The cohort of 36 new tenured and tenure-track faculty includes 11 faculty hired at the rank of professor or associate professor.
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How evolution overshot the optimum bone structure in hopping rodents
Bones that are separate in small jerboas are fully fused in large ones, but the bone structures that are best at dissipating the stresses of jumping are only partially fused.
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Walking and slithering aren’t as different as you think
New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.
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‘Fake’ data helps robots learn the ropes faster
A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more