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Soft microrobots to rescue plants from pests receive $1M award
February 25, 2026
The USDA awarded Michigan researchers $1M to develop soft microrobots that climb plant stems to detect pests, led by Xiaonan Huang and Dmitry Berenson.
Using AI to improve 3D printing concrete
February 20, 2026
Professor Yulun Tian is developing an AI-enabled digital twin to monitor and correct robotic 3D concrete printing in real time, backed by a Bold Challenges Initiative award.
Open-source, modular robot for understanding evolution
February 11, 2026
A cost-effective, customizable quadruped could help researchers discover the particular advantages related to the length and segmentation of animal limbs.
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Can an LLM design a soft robot? Yes, but even the top models can be beat with a finely-tuned one. Given bricks in a simulation: black for a rigid connection, white for a soft connection, blue and orange for actuation, LLMs could often select the de...
Softening the boundaries: the human, the physical, and the computationalJason Corso, as part of the ceremony to establish him as the Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence, presents this talk titled ...
$1M in @USDA_NIFA funding for caterpillar-size pest control robots: Professors Xiaonan Huang and Dmitry Berenson will be designing and building a 5cm robot for agriculture to deploy among crops and be an early-warning system for pests, allowing farm...
