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Ever wanted to own a Transformer? Thanks to a Japanese company, that dream is not far away. Called 'J-deite quarter', a project to create a working quarter-scale machine that can change from a car ...

A real-life Transformer has been created by scientists inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. In tests, the small shape-changing robot folded itself into a functional machine that ...

A robot can now travel through the human body to cure diseases. Scientists have created a Transformers-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The shape-shifting device is ...

Robots are slowly getting smarter, mostly thanks to advances in artificial intelligence that enable them to learn on their own rather than requiring constant human guidance. But despite being able to ...

A research team in China has won an international award for its exceptional work on a robot that can mimic the way various animals walk. The robot, named Origaker, can change its shape to simulate the ...

Follow the installation instructions, then load a pretrained Octo model! See examples for guides to zero-shot evaluation and finetuning and for an inference example. Out of the box, Octo supports ...

Decommissioning work at the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a setback after the shape-changing “transformer” robot sent in to search for melted fuel stalled hours into its ...

Two Tokyo-based firms said Friday they have begun developing a transformable robot that can be operated from inside, both as a humanoid robot and a vehicle. Asratec Corp. and Brave Robotics said they ...