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Humanoid robot actuators are the motor, transmission, sensing and control assemblies that generate joint motion and torque, turning software commands into physical movem…
Humanoid robot locomotion is the control of walking, running, stepping and terrain adaptation on a human-like body while maintaining balance, managing contacts and coord…
Dexterous robot hands use multiple articulated fingers, carefully designed actuation, sensing and coordinated control to grasp and manipulate objects with more flexibili…
A robot foundation model is broadly pretrained on robot, visual, language or action data so it can be adapted across many tasks instead of being built for one fixed beha…
A multi-agent system coordinates multiple autonomous agents that communicate or share work toward individual or collective goals. Modern AI systems use this pattern to s…
AI agent examples range from research and coding assistants to workflow, customer-service and operations agents. The key is not the industry label but whether the system…
General-purpose robots are designed to perform many different tasks instead of one fixed job. They combine adaptable hardware, perception, control and AI so the same pla…
An AI scientist is an AI-driven research system that can help search literature, form hypotheses, plan analyses or experiments, use scientific tools and evaluate results…
Gene therapy changes genetic material or gene expression in a patient's cells to treat disease. The term covers several strategies, including adding a functional gene, s…
A nuclear reactor controls a self-sustaining fission chain reaction so that heat can be removed safely and used for a practical purpose such as generating electricity, p…
Nuclear power generates heat from fission, the splitting of heavy atomic nuclei such as uranium. A power plant uses that heat to make steam and drive a turbine-generator…
A coral reef ecosystem is a network of corals, algae, fishes, invertebrates, microbes and physical processes that recycle energy and nutrients in nutrient-poor tropical…
Climate models are mathematical representations of the atmosphere, ocean, land, ice and the exchanges of energy and matter among them. They are built from physical laws…
Weather forecasting models are computer simulations that estimate how the atmosphere will evolve from an analyzed starting state. They translate physical laws into numer…
Clinical trials are prospective studies in which people take part so researchers can evaluate interventions, prevention strategies, diagnostics or other health-related a…