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This year's RoboCup, the world championship series for intelligent robots, will be held from 26-30 June in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). The competition expects around 2500 contestants from around 40 countries, competing with their rescue robots, service robots, dancing robots and of course soccer robots.
May 29th, 2013
Read moreThe European project Robomate, aims to develop an exoskeleton for industrial applications.
May 29th, 2013
Read moreInspired by the way plants grow toward light sources, a phenomenon known as phototropism, bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley have created a hydrogel that could be manipulated by light.
May 29th, 2013
Read moreA robot in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab has learned to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand, or more accurately, roll in and offer a helping claw.
May 28th, 2013
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Robots could become a lot more 'sensitive' thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies developed by European scientists. Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home.
May 24th, 2013
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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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