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Researchers have developed a 'real-time-avatar-robotic arm' that transmits sound, vision, and highly sensitive feelings of touch to remotely located users. This innovative touch sensitive robotic technology is expected to find applications in areas such as industrial manufacturing, harvesting farm produce, and nursing care.
Posted: Nov 7th, 2017
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Hybrid robot could perform search and rescue missions, research studies, environmental monitoring.
Posted: Oct 25th, 2017
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Researchers report the first application of quantum computing to a physics problem. By employing quantum-compatible machine learning techniques, they developed a method of extracting a rare Higgs boson signal from copious noise data.
Posted: Oct 19th, 2017
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Engineers have developed a flexible sensor 'skin' that can be stretched over any part of a robot's body or prosthetic to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration that are critical to successfully grasping and manipulating objects.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2017
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Engineers have designed and built a gripper that can pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to be trained.
Posted: Oct 10th, 2017
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Will our own technology ever come close to matching the replicants of Blade Runner 2049?
Posted: Oct 5th, 2017
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Shape-shifting device from CSAIL can walk, roll, sail, and glide using recyclable exoskeletons.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2017
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A researcher has turned the origami she enjoyed as a child into a patent-pending soft robot that may one day be used on an assembly line, in surgery or even outer space.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2017
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Neural networks carry out chemical simulations in record time.
Posted: Sep 26th, 2017
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A team of mechanical engineers and entomologists are looking to click beetles, who can right themselves without the use of their legs, to solve a robotics challenge.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2017
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A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics.
Posted: Sep 19th, 2017
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Researchers have developed self-reconfiguring modular robots that can merge, split and even self-heal while retaining full sensorimotor control. The work may take us closer to producing robots that can autonomously change their size, shape and function.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2017
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Scientists have successfully taught robots to perform a challenging brain technique only previously mastered by a handful of humans.
Posted: Aug 31st, 2017
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Approach may enable robots to move around hospitals, malls, and other areas with heavy foot traffic.
Posted: Aug 30th, 2017
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New technology being developed by researchers is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier.
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2017
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'Interactive Robogami' that lets you design a robot in minutes, and then 3D-print and assemble it in as little as four hours.
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2017
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