Robots on the slopes (w/video)
Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots.
May 12th, 2014
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Teaching robots right from wrong
Researchers launch multi-year project to develop robots that can make moral decisions.
May 9th, 2014
Read moreThe touchy-feely robot coming soon
To date, no robotics scientist has been able to create ultra-flexible tactile skin. Either the sensor has been too big or the electronics not sufficiently flexible. Now, however, researchers believe they have found a way of incorporating electronics and sensors on bendable silicon-based surfaces that will be 50 micrometers thick.
May 6th, 2014
Read moreNokia launches $100 million Connected Car Fund
The fund will invest in promising auto tech and local services companies in collaboration with HERE, a Nokia company, to grow the ecosystem around HERE's mapping and location products and services.
May 6th, 2014
Read moreRobots help teach social skills to kids with autism spectrum disorder
Scientists are working with a team of autism experts and robotics designers at the company Robokind to create Robots4Autism. This program uses an artificially intelligent robot with a full range of facial expressions to interact with children who have ASD.
May 2nd, 2014
Read moreMOOC course 'Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots'
Set to be launched on May 6th on the edX platform, the new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) of the Technische Universit�t M�nchen (TUM) will teach participants how to navigate these convenient aircraft. The 8-week 'Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots' course consists of weekly presentations of learning videos, while participants themselves can complete interactive practice exercises with a quadrotor.
May 2nd, 2014
Read moreRobots may need to include parental controls
Older adults' fears that companion robots will negatively affect young people may create design challenges for developers hoping to build robots for older users.
Apr 30th, 2014
Read moreCrowdfunding camapign for mosquito-dissecting robot to automate malaria vaccine production (w/video)
Biotechnology company Sanaria Inc.aims to raise at least $250,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. Funds will be dedicated to the development of SporoBot, a robot that will dissect mosquito salivary glands. By replacing manual microdissection of mosquito salivary glands, Sporobot will automate a key step in the manufacturing process of Sanaria PfSPZ Vaccine against malaria.
Apr 30th, 2014
Read moreSnake-like robot advances automated assembly of aircraft wings
Even today, aircraft wings are still assembled manually; but this process could soon be automated thanks to a novel snake-like robot capable of tightening bolts in even the most difficult-to-access cavities of the wing structure.
Apr 30th, 2014
Read moreScientists create circuit board modeled on the human brain (w/video)
Stanford scientists have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips based on the human brain - 9,000 times faster and using significantly less power than a typical PC. This offers greater possibilities for advances in robotics and a new way of understanding the brain.
Apr 28th, 2014
Read moreThe way of the future: 'swarming' robots
EVOLVINGROBOT is a European research project which has developed an artificial intelligence system to control tiny robots, enabling them to replicate the 'swarming' behaviour seen in insects such as bees or ants, or even in birds and fish. It is an innovation which could have far-reaching implications for a range of human activities, from medical to industrial, military and disaster relief.
Apr 25th, 2014
Read moreRobot scouts rooms people can't enter
Researchers are creating a room-mapping system that can be used to map rooms in three-dimensional space.
Apr 23rd, 2014
Read moreFruit fly research could help design small bio-inspired flying robots (w/video)
Caltech researchers uncover a mechanism for how fruit flies regulate their flight speed, using both vision and wind-sensing information from their antennae.
Apr 16th, 2014
Read moreLook who's evolving now: Using robots to study evolution
Researchers have successfully used a colony of rodent-like robots to watch different mating strategies evolve. The work not only generated interesting and unexpected results, but it has also helped validate the use of robots in the study of evolution.
Apr 14th, 2014
Read moreEye of the beholder - improving the human-robot connection (w/video)
Researchers are programming robots to communicate with people using human-like body language and cues, an important step toward bringing robots into homes.
Apr 11th, 2014
Read moreStartup creates underwater robotics with a human touch (w/video)
It should be just as easy to use a robotic arm as it is to use your own hand. That's the thinking behind University of Washington startup BluHaptics, which is taking telerobotics - controlling robots from a distance - to a new level: underwater.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreAs fast as their tiny 'bot' legs will carry them (w/video)
Micro-robots, smaller than a penny, could one day swarm to the rescue.
Apr 7th, 2014
Read moreOrienteering for robots
Algorithm for determining orientation of objects could aid robots in navigation, scene understanding.
Apr 4th, 2014
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