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Researchers have combined hair-like wires with electronic skin to make a more versatile sensor for robots, prosthetics and other applications.
Posted: Dec 14th, 2016
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Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. A group of researchers has devised a way for a soft robot to feel its surroundings internally, in much the same way humans do.
Posted: Dec 8th, 2016
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The 2015 earthquake in Nepal is just one example of a recent natural disaster that required search and rescue operations. A European security research project has developed new robotic tools for such operations with great success. Some of its developments are already commercially available and ready to be deployed in order to save lives.
Posted: Nov 25th, 2016
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Two engineering graduates have developed QuadBot, a 3D printable walking robotics platform. Their aim is to help as many people as possible to learn about robotics.
Posted: Nov 21st, 2016
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A new machine learning training method enables neural networks to learn directly from human-defined rules, opening new possibilities for artificial intelligence in fields from medical diagnostics to self-driving cars.
Posted: Nov 16th, 2016
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The public needs to better understanding the forces that can lead to development of autonomous weapons and how being a human is at the core of their impact.
Posted: Nov 15th, 2016
Read moreResearchers are embarking on a project to make robots and other artificial intelligences 'persistently autonomous', so they can deal with unexpected problems.
Posted: Nov 10th, 2016
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New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems' decisions.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2016
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Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physical robots.
Posted: Oct 26th, 2016
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Two British artists are designing an unconventional fleet of autonomous devices that can help fight pollution in the lagoon environment of Venice.
Posted: Oct 25th, 2016
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Authenticity is an important trait, and zebrafish take it especially seriously. An interdisciplinary team of researchers discovered that zebrafish engage more with 3D-moving robotic models of themselves than with other stimuli.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2016
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Using a relatively simple system - a mannequin's arm with pressure sensors, connected to a computer - researchers have succeeded in getting it to recognize sixty percent of all touches.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2016
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Soft robots, powered by muscle-like actuators, are designed to be used on the human body in order to help people move.
Posted: Oct 12th, 2016
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There is the possibilty of using alternative materials - potentially any material or physical system - as computers to perform calculations, without the need to manipulate electrons like silicon chips do. And it turns out these could be even better for developing artificial intelligence than existing computers.
Posted: Oct 11th, 2016
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Researchers present a new method for 3-D printing soft materials that make robots safer and more precise in their movements - and that could be used to improve the durability of drones, phones, shoes, helmets, and more.
Posted: Oct 6th, 2016
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What happens to privacy when drones are deployed by police? What place do agbots (agricultural robots) have in ensuring food security? Whither the legal profession now that robots are performing legal tasks overseas?
Posted: Oct 6th, 2016
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