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DARPA envisions Warrior Web augmenting the work of soldiers' own muscles to significantly boost endurance, carrying capacity and overall warfighter effectiveness - all while using no more than 100W of power.
May 24th, 2013
Read moreDreamHammer today announced the pre-general release launch of Ballista, its drone control software. Ballista is an intelligent control platform that for the first time integrates unrelated unmanned drones and robots from different manufacturers into one system.
May 23rd, 2013
Read moreThis video shows the perching mechanism that allows indoor flying robots to attach to vertical surfaces.
May 21st, 2013
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Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant.
May 20th, 2013
Read moreScientists achieve natural human-to-robot handoff motion.
May 20th, 2013
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Liquid Robotics, an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider, announced it has been officially awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest journey of an unmanned autonomous surface vehicle.
May 18th, 2013
Read moreThe growing use of unmanned surveillance 'eyes in the sky' aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it.
May 18th, 2013
Read moreA new technique called LOBOT provides accurate, real-time, 3-D positions in both indoor and outdoor environments.
May 14th, 2013
Read moreThe drive to decrease the ecological impact of production machines is leading manufactures to focus on novel ways to incorporate energy efficiency in the designing of new products. One answer is the first-ever badminton playing robot - designed to test a software application that optimises energy efficiency in machine design.
May 14th, 2013
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Having hospital visits from a robot may sound like a strange form of therapy, but according to robotics experts, they can be extremely helpful therapeutic devices.
May 13th, 2013
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The team behind the pan-European research project NozzleInspect has built a remote controlled prototype robot that uses state of the art ultrasonic probes to detect tiny, millimetric defects in the nozzle, a crucial, sensitive component used to control the flow of water that cools the nuclear reactor.
May 13th, 2013
Read moreNeurobiologists at the University of Chicago show how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an artificial sensor in a prosthetic hand.
May 10th, 2013
Read moreThis thing has all the right moves. Three University of Alabama in Huntsville master's students in software engineering decided to pump up the volume with an Android app that cranks a robot into the popular Gangnam Style dance.
May 9th, 2013
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With campus safety and security in mind, engineering students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are working with the campus police department to perfect unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies for use on-campus.
May 9th, 2013
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University of Pennsylvania researchers showed what happened when they taught their RHex legged robot to jump. The results are pretty amazing.
May 9th, 2013
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When Michael Gore stands, it's a triumph of science and engineering. Eleven years ago, Gore was paralyzed from the waist down in a workplace accident, yet he rises from his wheelchair to his full 6-foot-2-inches and walks across the room with help from a lightweight wearable robot.
May 9th, 2013
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Drones have become a symbol for the end of the 'golden age of privacy' and widespread fears about big data, ubiquitous video recording and a host of other technologies that portend a future in which privacy is nonexistent.
May 7th, 2013
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A new breed of industrial robots and ICT systems could transform Australia's manufacturing sector, creating safer environments and more efficient factories, according to a CSIRO whitepaper.
May 7th, 2013
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