Robot researcher combines nature to nurture 'superhuman' navigation
Researchers are investigating realistic navigation for robots using computer modeling of the human eye and the brain of a rat.
Oct 1st, 2014
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Where humans, animals and robots meet
A thriving technology trend applies the concept of animal swarms or swarming to the development of complex systems that bridge the gap amongst disciplines as dissimilar as biology, robotics or networking.
Sep 30th, 2014
Read moreRobot cheerleaders dance in synchronization while balancing on balls (w/video)
The Murata Cheerleaders are a team of small robots that uses the latest sensing and communication technologies, as well as advanced group control technology to achieve perfect stability and flawless synchronized dancing.
Sep 29th, 2014
Read moreScientists make droplets move on their own (w/video)
Droplets are simple spheres of fluid, not normally considered capable of doing anything on their own. But now researchers have made droplets of alcohol move through water. In the future, such moving droplets may deliver medicines, etc.
Sep 29th, 2014
Read moreUnderwater robot for port security
Football-size robot can skim discreetly along a ship's hull to seek hollow compartments concealing contraband.
Sep 26th, 2014
Read moreBlackout? Robots to the rescue (w/video)
Researchers have developed a tabletop model of a robot team that can bring power to places that need it the most.
Sep 25th, 2014
Read moreRobotic fabric could bring 'active clothing', wearable robots
Researchers are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors, an approach that could bring 'active clothing' and a new class of soft robots.
Sep 25th, 2014
Read moreRobots are doing it for themselves, or they will be soon
Industrialists, academics and students gathered in Edinburgh yesterday to launch a new Centre aimed at developing robots which can act independently and which they believe will revolutionise society in the next twenty years.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreNew RFID technology helps robots find household objects (w/video)
Researchers have created a new search algorithm that improves a robot's ability to find and navigate to tagged objects. The team has implemented their system on a PR2 robot, allowing it to travel through a home and correctly locate different types of tagged household objects, including a medication bottle, TV remote, phone and hair brush.
Sep 22nd, 2014
Read moreArtificial intelligence that imitates children's learning
The computer programmes used in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are highly specialised. They can for example fly airplanes, play chess or assemble cars in controlled industrial environments. However, a research team from Gothenburg, Sweden, has now been able to create an AI programme that can learn how to solve problems in many different areas. The programme is designed to imitate certain aspects of children's cognitive development.
Sep 22nd, 2014
Read moreSoft robotics 'toolkit' features everything a robot-maker needs
Online resource is designed to foster innovation and learning.
Sep 19th, 2014
Read moreUsing underwater robots for a better understanding of the underwater world (w/video)
The Sunrise project is at the forefront of a revolution in communications, creating an underwater 'internet of things', that will mobilise robots to work in groups, interacting together and passing back information to us on life underwater.
Sep 19th, 2014
Read moreFingertip sensor gives robot unprecedented dexterity
Researchers have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable draped freely over a hook and insert it into a USB port.
Sep 19th, 2014
Read moreNASA's 2015 Sample Return Robot Challenge open for registration
Registration is open for the fourth running of the NASA Centennial Challenge program's Sample Return Robot Challenge, which will take place June 8-13, 2015. The autonomous robot competition, which carries a prize purse of $1.5 million, will be held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, which has hosted the event since 2012.
Sep 18th, 2014
Read more'Honeybee' robots replicate swarm behavior
Computer scientists have created a low-cost, autonomous micro-robot which in large numbers can replicate the behavior of swarming honeybees.
Sep 18th, 2014
Read moreARCAS: Flying robots will go where humans can't
There are many situations where it's impossible, complicated or too time-consuming for humans to enter and carry out operations. Think of contaminated areas following a nuclear accident, or the need to erect structures such as antennae on mountain tops. These are examples of where flying robots could be used.
Sep 17th, 2014
Read moreCheetah-bot - bound for robotic glory (w/video)
New algorithm enables MIT cheetah robot to run and jump, untethered, across grass.
Sep 15th, 2014
Read moreCutting the cord on soft robots
Developers from Harvard's School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have produced the first untethered soft robot - a quadruped that can stand up and walk away from its designers.
Sep 12th, 2014
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