Abstract: This article presents a robot control algorithm suitable for safe reactive navigation tasks in cluttered environments. The proposed approach consists of transforming the robot workspace into ...

Roboticist Karen Liu combines machine learning and animation to teach robots to move and respond more like humans.

RULER (Relative Universal LLM-Elicited Rewards) eliminates the need for hand-crafted reward functions by using an LLM-as-judge to automatically score agent trajectories. Simply define your task in the ...

Following the conclusion of its annual Python Hunting Challenge, which allows hunters to kill thousands of the invasive snakes, Florida has announced a new plan to remove the unwanted critters using ...

Florida officials deploy robot rabbits to control the invasive Burmese python population. Scientists from the South Florida Water Management District and the University of Florida have teamed up to ...

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URBANA — Two years ago, the core of the 2025 Urbana football team began to take shape. The Hawks’ coaching staff pulled up six freshmen and a bevy of sophomores to take snaps at the varsity level, ...

Abstract: Visual inspection of confined spaces such as aircraft wings is ergonomically challenging for human mechanics. This work presents a novel crane robot that can travel the entire span of the ...