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In order to build a new generation of affordable, practical robots for everyday use, efficiency is key. That's why Quantum International Corp. is working to translate concepts from the science of biology into the science of robotics.
Aug 10th, 2012
Read moreNew algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
Aug 10th, 2012
Read moreScientists have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm. The robot, made almost entirely of soft materials, is remarkably resilient: Even when stepped upon or bludgeoned with a hammer, the robot is able to inch away, unscathed.
Aug 9th, 2012
Read moreResearchers use complex computational models to design swimming micro-robots that could carry drug cargo and navigate in response to stimuli such as light.
Aug 6th, 2012
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Meet Stompy: an 18-foot-wide, 4,000-pound, six-legged hydraulic robot that you?ll be able to ride one day - if its designers realize their dream of raising $65,000 in 30 days to build it.
Aug 5th, 2012
Read moreA team of EU-funded researchers has developed the world's first human-sized, five-fingered robotic hand that can learn to grasp and manipulate a range of delicate and oddly shaped objects just as humans do.
Aug 2nd, 2012
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand - and an arm - from engineers at Drexel University as part of a National Science Foundation grant to investigate adding dexterous limbs to the aircrafts. The project, whose subject harkens to the hovering android iconography of sci-fi movies, could be a step toward the use of UAVs for emergency response and search and rescue scenarios.
Aug 1st, 2012
Read moreA team of EU-funded researchers has developed a robotic companion and intelligent home environment that could help elderly people live richer and more independent lives and reduce the burden placed on healthcare services.
Aug 1st, 2012
Read moreResearchers have created a robot that can perfectly replicate back stroke swimming. The team at the Tokyo University of Technology, led by associate professor Motomu Nakashima, hopes that eventually robots like the "Swumanoid" can act as robot lifeguards, patrolling the shores and helping swimmers in distress.
Jul 31st, 2012
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The first bio-inspired microrobot capable of not just walking on water like the water strider - but continuously jumping up and down like a real water strider - now is a reality.
Jul 26th, 2012
Read moreCAS lab develops robots modeled on the human brain.
Jul 26th, 2012
Read moreScientists at Queen Mary, University of London have launched a fun new smartphone app that lets users interact with and control their own emotional pet robot, using ideas taken from a recent European robotics research project called LIREC.
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreEuropean researchers of the projects NanoBioTact and NanoBioTouch delve deep into the mysteries of touch and have developed the first sensitive artificial finger.
Jul 19th, 2012
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Spacecraft Engineering Department's space robotics research facility recently took possession of a one-of-a-kind 75,000 pound Gravity Offset Table (GOT) made from a single slab of solid granite.
Jul 18th, 2012
Read moreAlgorithms enable robot to navigate and view propellers and other complex structures.
Jul 17th, 2012
Read moreAt their final class presentation, students show off the robots they conceived and designed during the last few weeks of the course.
Jul 17th, 2012
Read moreRemote presence robots are used in intensive care units (ICUs) to help critical care physicians supplement on-site patient visits and maintain more frequent patient interactions. Physicians who employ this technology to supplement day-to-day patient care strongly support the positive clinical and social impact of using robots.
Jul 11th, 2012
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Almost anything that can be made with paper, paint and cardboard can be animated with an educational robotics kit developed at Carnegie Mellon University?s Robotics Institute.
Jul 10th, 2012
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