robot vacuum and mop combo

Sat, 02 May 2026 22:27:33 +0000

A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy. A new system enables a robot to think ahead and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds. Founded by MIT alumni, the Pickle Robot Company has developed robots that can autonomously load and unload trucks inside warehouses and logistic centers. A vision-based control system called Neural Jacobian Fields enables soft and rigid robots to learn self-supervised motion control using only a monocular camera. The system, developed by.