{"id":188922,"date":"2026-02-19T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/a-neural-blueprint-for-human-like-intelligence-in-soft-robots-mit-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:15:12","slug":"a-neural-blueprint-for-human-like-intelligence-in-soft-robots-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/a-neural-blueprint-for-human-like-intelligence-in-soft-robots-mit-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A neural blueprint for human-like intelligence in soft robots | MIT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/neural-blueprint-human-intelligence-in-soft-robots-0219\">A neural blueprint for human-like intelligence in soft robots | MIT News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/neural-blueprint-human-intelligence-in-soft-robots-0219\">https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/neural-blueprint-human-intelligence-in-soft-robots-0219<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 12:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.mit.edu\">news.mit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adaptive AI Control System<\/strong>: The new AI system enables soft robotic arms to learn and adapt to diverse motions and tasks without retraining.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real-world Applications<\/strong>: This technology enhances soft robotics for practical uses such as assistive, rehabilitation, and medical devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structural and Plastic Synapses<\/strong>: The AI combines structural synapses (offline learning) with plastic synapses (real-time adaptation) to improve adaptability and stability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interdisciplinary Collaboration<\/strong>: Researchers from MIT, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University co-developed this system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Versatility and Stability<\/strong>: The system maintains performance across different tasks and disturbances, ensuring reliability in unpredictable environments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generalizability<\/strong>: The method works across various soft-arm platforms and supports multiple task types, like trajectory tracking and object placement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High Performance<\/strong>: Demonstrated significant improvements, achieving reductions in tracking error and high shape accuracy under disturbances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Applications<\/strong>: Potential to advance manufacturing, logistics, medical, and industrial soft robots, improving efficiency in various fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neural blueprint for human-like intelligence in soft robots | MIT News https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/neural-blueprint-human-intelligence-in-soft-robots-0219 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/202602\/mit-smart-robot-arm.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188924,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188922\/revisions\/188924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}