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To help save time and money, and improve the accuracy and quality of cargo inspections, an EU-funded research project has developed a fleet of remote-controlled robots that crawl through cargo ships in search of cracks, corrosion and other defects.
Mar 26th, 2013
Read moreNew book, 'Robot Futures', foresees society that will be shaped by ubiquitous robots.
Mar 25th, 2013
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Robots can observe human behavior and - like a human baby - deduce a reasonable approach to handling specific objects.
Mar 21st, 2013
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Robots have helped humans navigate outer space, land on the moon and explore Mars - but they can still get stuck in the sand. Carnegie Mellon University's internationally renowned roboticist, William Whittaker, is leading a new NASA-funded study to keep them moving forward.
Mar 21st, 2013
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In one of the earliest experiments using a humanoid robot to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst saw notable speech and physical therapy gains and significant improvement in quality of life.
Mar 21st, 2013
Read moreA new way of reasoning about what happens when a robot's limb strikes an object could lead to more efficient and reliable robotic-control systems.
Mar 21st, 2013
Read moreAutomated tools aim to make it easier to teach a computer than to program it.
Mar 20th, 2013
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Robots are being used more widely than expected in a variety of sectors, and the trend is likely to continue with robotics becoming as ubiquitous as computer technology over the next 15 years.
Mar 20th, 2013
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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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