Category: Brain Inspired Robotics

How to use milliwatt ultrasound for navigation in visually degraded environments on palm-sized aerial robots?

Manoj Velmurugan, Phillip Brush, Colin Balfour, Richard J. Przybyla, Nitin J. Sanket. Milliwatt ultrasound for navigation in visually degraded environments on palm-sized aerial robots. Science Robotics.11,eadz9609(2026).DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.adz9609

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Tiny palm-sized aerial robots have exceptional agility and cost-effectiveness in navigating

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How to build a benchmarking framework for embodied neuromorphic agents?

Giulia D’Angelo, Jens E. Pedersen, Taimoor Hassan, Matteo Cianchetti, Josh Bongard, Fumiya Iida, Giacomo Indiveri, Matej Hoffmann, Cecilia Laschi, Chiara De Luca, Chiara Bartolozzi & Elisa Donati. A benchmarking framework for embodied neuromorphic agents.  Nature Machine Intelligence, 2026.

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How to build energy efficiency and neural control of continuous versus intermittent swimming in a fishlike robot?

Xiangxiao Liu et al. ,Energy efficiency and neural control of continuous versus intermittent swimming in a fishlike robot.Sci. Robot.11,eadw7868(2026).

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Many aquatic animals, including larval zebrafish, exhibit intermittent locomotion, moving via discrete swimming bouts followed by passive

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How to build a general soft robotic controller inspired by neuronal structural and plastic synapses that adapts to diverse arms, tasks, and perturbations?

Zhiqiang Tang, Liying Tian, Wenci Xin, Qianqian Wang, Daniela Rus, and Cecilia Laschi. A general soft robotic controller inspired by neuronal structural and plastic synapses that adapts to diverse arms, tasks, and perturbations. Science Advances, 12,eaea3712(2026).

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What is the state of neuromorphic touch for robotics?

Tianyi Liu, George Brayshaw, Ao Li, Xingchen Xu and Benjamin Ward-Cherrier. Neuromorphic touch for robotics—a review. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2025, Volume 5, Number 3. 

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The field of neuromorphic tactile sensing aims to emulate the biological mechanisms

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How to build a neuromorphic robotic electronic skin with active pain and injury perception?

Y. Gao,J. Zhang,H. Zhang,L. Chow,G. Zhao,G. Guo,C.K. Yiu,B. Zhang,Y. Huang,J. Zhou,Q. Zhang,T. Huang,Y. Guo,J. Li,J. Li,X. Huang,Z. Chen,Z. Liu,Y. Qiu, C. Guo, X. Yu, A neuromorphic robotic electronic skin with active pain and injury perception, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. …

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What’s the state of neuromorphic touch for robotics?

Tianyi Liu, George Brayshaw, Ao Li, Xingchen Xu and Benjamin Ward-Cherrier. Neuromorphic touch for robotics—a review. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2025, 5(3): 032001.

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The field of neuromorphic tactile sensing aims to emulate the biological mechanisms of touch

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What’s the roadmap for AI in robotics?

Aude Billard, Alin Albu-Schaeffer, Michael Beetz, Wolfram Burgard, Peter Corke, Matei Ciocarlie, Ravinder Dahiya, Danica Kragic, Ken Goldberg, Yukie Nagai & Davide Scaramuzza. A roadmap for AI in robotics. Nat Mach Intell 7, 818–824 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01050-6

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How to build a fully neuromorphic localization system capable of large-scale, on-device deployment for energy-efficient robotic place recognition?

Adam D. Hines, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer. A compact neuromorphic system for ultra–energy-efficient, on-device robot localization. Sci. Robot.10, eads3968(2025).DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.ads3968

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Neuromorphic computing offers a transformative pathway to overcome the computational and energy challenges faced in deploying robotic localization

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How to build hybrid robotic hand with neuromorphic tactile sensing inspired by the human hand?

Sriramana Sankar, Wen-Yu Cheng, Jinghua Zhang, Ariel Slepyan, Mark M. Iskarous,Rebecca J. Greene, Rene DeBrabander, Junjun Chen, Arnav Gupta, Nitish V. Thakor. A natural biomimetic prosthetic hand with neuromorphic tactile sensing for precise and compliant grasping.Science Advances,11,eadr9300(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr9300

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