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An artificial hand capable of performing almost all of the different types of grips on everyday objects with a single motor and, due to the simplicity of its structure, robustness and low cost, is destined to revolutionize not only the world of prosthetic and robotic hands but advance other technologies as well.
Mar 19th, 2013
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The folks at ETH Zurich's Biorobotics Laboratory have upgraded their robotic salamnder: Meet Salamandra robotica II, the new generation of our amphibious salamander-like robot.
Mar 19th, 2013
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Average person could design, customize and print a specialized robot in a matter of hours.
Mar 18th, 2013
Read moreBristlebots are robots without sensors or brains that do things that robots without sensors or brains do. As it turns out, this is a lot more than you might expect, since researchers at Harvard have shown that if you stick enough of them in a small space, they self-organize into swarms.
Mar 15th, 2013
Read moreThe robot market in China is showing promising signs as workers get replaced due to soaring labor costs, according to Thursday's China Securities Journal.
Mar 14th, 2013
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A team from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center is building a new class of robot to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge - a human-size robot that moves, not by walking, but on rubberized tracks on the extremities of each of its four limbs.
Mar 13th, 2013
Read moreResearchers from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and four collaborating institutions have evaluated the effectiveness of a novel curriculum to safely train surgeons on the da Vinci Surgical System, which is used to perform robot-assisted surgeries.
Mar 12th, 2013
Read moreIntroducing a fleet of social robots in a hospital, so that they can interact with children affected by cancer, will be the final outcome of a new international research project.
Mar 11th, 2013
Read moreResearchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers for robotics tasks and robot learning.
Mar 11th, 2013
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Robot's custom-designed electric motors are powerful and efficient.
Mar 8th, 2013
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Every year thousands of people in Europe are paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a wheelchair. Although no medical cure currently exists, in the future they could be able to walk again thanks to a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton being developed by EU-funded researchers.
Mar 7th, 2013
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The EU funded European research project FILOSE has developed robots with a new sense - lateral line sensing. All fish have this sensing organ but so far it had no technological counterpart on man-made underwater vehicles.
Mar 6th, 2013
Read moreOn April 25, entrepreneurs, robot developers and end-users meet at the event Robotics Innovation Challenge (RIC) in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to share thoughts and ideas on the challenges and opportunities for successful commercialization of new robot innovations. A strong trio of keynote speakers open the event; Dan Kara, Erin Rapacki and Renaud Champion.
Mar 4th, 2013
Read moreBigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics robots. It is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads. Now it can throw stuff, too.
Mar 1st, 2013
Read moreMany are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working on an upgrade: 4D printing.
Mar 1st, 2013
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A robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around was given its global safety certificate in Japan on Wednesday, paving the way for its worldwide rollout.
Feb 28th, 2013
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New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.
Feb 25th, 2013
Read moreRunning cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.
Feb 22nd, 2013
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