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Medical millirobots offer hope for less-invasive surgeries (w/video)
Seeking to advance minimally invasive medical treatments, researchers have proposed using tiny robots, driven by magnetic potential energy from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners.
Posted: May 27th, 2015
Read moreHelping robots put it all together
New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.
Posted: May 27th, 2015
Read moreResearchers develop intelligent handheld robots
Researchers have developed and started studying a novel concept in robotics - intelligent handheld robots.
Posted: May 26th, 2015
Read moreScientist created drones that fly autonomously and learn new routes
Drones say goodbye to pilots. With the goal of achieving autonomous flight of these aerial vehicles, researchers developed a vision and learning system to control and navigate them without relying on a GPS signal or trained personnel.
Posted: May 26th, 2015
Read moreRobot masters new skills through trial and error (w/video)
Researchers have developed algorithms that enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error using a process that more closely approximates the way humans learn, marking a major milestone in the field of artificial intelligence.
Posted: May 22nd, 2015
Read moreStandard knowledge for robots
What do you know? There is now a world standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess - or, to get philosophical about it, an ontology for automatons.
Posted: May 22nd, 2015
Read moreRobotic sonar system inspired by bats
Engineers have taken the first steps toward building a novel dynamic sonar system inspired by horseshoe bats that could be more efficient and take up less space than current man-made sonar arrays.
Posted: May 21st, 2015
Read moreRobots grasping hands (w/video)
Researchers are developing tests to take full measure of robotic grasping - specifically, the motion and effort that gripping and manipulating entail. Their immediate goal: To provide useful performance-benchmarking tools to support research and innovation leading to ever-more handy capable robot appendages.
Posted: May 19th, 2015
Read moreWhy you should always shake hands with a robot
There are many unspoken rules of human interaction, whether that's whether or not to look them in the eyes, the firmness of the handshake, smiling or words of greeting. Little things like this can lead to big judgements about trustworthiness or social acceptability. What if we can use this type of behaviour to help humans and robots interact?
Posted: May 15th, 2015
Read moreControlling swarms of robots with light and a single finger (w/video)
Using a smart tablet and a red beam of light, researchers have created a system that allows people to control a fleet of robots with the swipe of a finger.
Posted: May 12th, 2015
Read moreResearchers hack a teleoperated surgical robot to reveal security flaws
To make cars as safe as possible, we crash them into walls to pinpoint weaknesses and better protect the people who use them. That's the idea behind a series of experiments by an engineering team who hacked a next generation teleoperated surgical robot to test how easily a malicious attack could hijack remotely-controlled operations in the future and to make those systems more secure.
Posted: May 7th, 2015
Read moreEngineers hand 'cognitive' control to underwater robots
A new programming approach gives robots more 'cognitive' capabilities, enabling humans to specify high-level goals, while a robot performs high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.
Posted: May 7th, 2015
Read moreToward a squishier robot
Engineers design synthetic gel that changes shape and moves via its own internal energy.
Posted: May 5th, 2015
Read morePAN-ROBOTS: Automating logistics for the factory of the future
Mass production and packaging in factories is already highly automated these days, but the same cannot be said for logistics. Movements of raw materials and finished products still depend heavily on manual labour. However, EU-funded research on Automatic Guided Vehicles means this is about to change over the next decade.
Posted: Apr 20th, 2015
Read moreHow robots can help build better doctors
Research seeks to make better 'human patient simulators'.
Posted: Apr 7th, 2015
Read moreOctopus-inspired robot is the fastest underwater robot based on the given power (w/video)
Ability to morph (change shape), propel itself and turn quickly in water (i.e. super-manoeuvrability) efficiently and silently, lending itself to future possibilities in surveillance and inspection.
Posted: Apr 2nd, 2015
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