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Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant announced as part of the National Robotics Initiative.
Oct 26th, 2013
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Cornell engineers are helping humans and robots work together to find the best way to do a job, an approach called 'coactive learning'.
Oct 24th, 2013
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NASA, announced new investments totaling approximately $38 million for the development and use of robots that cooperatively work with people to enhance individual human capabilities, performance and safety.
Oct 24th, 2013
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Jellyfish are one of the most energetically efficient natural propulsors on the planet, according to Shashank Priya, professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. He led a study highlighting the motion of the jellyfish.
Oct 17th, 2013
Read moreTeaching two-legged robots a stable, robust 'human' way of walking - this is the goal of the international research project KoroiBot with scientists from seven institutions from Germany, France, Israel, Italy and the Netherlands.
Oct 17th, 2013
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RoCKIn is short for 'Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics' and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aiming at the promotion of research and education through competitions.
Oct 17th, 2013
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments - such as collapsed buildings - based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs, or 'biobots'.
Oct 16th, 2013
Read moreAn innovative program that introduces robotic technology into non-technical middle school classes will be used by suburban Pittsburgh and rural West Virginia schools in a federally funded research project to identify and nurture students with an affinity for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Oct 9th, 2013
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Northeast Robotics Colloquium showcases new machines designed to improve everyday life.
Oct 9th, 2013
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A neglected statistical tool could help robots better understand the objects in the world around them.
Oct 7th, 2013
Read moreWildCat is a four-legged robot being developed by Boston Dynamics to run fast on all types of terrain.
Oct 5th, 2013
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Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Oct 4th, 2013
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A robot that picks ripe strawberries as the farmer sleeps was unveiled recently, with its developer saying it could cut workloads by two-thirds.
Oct 1st, 2013
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A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to look like. And they change their minds based on what the robot is supposed to do.
Oct 1st, 2013
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A team led by KAIST Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's Professor Hyeon Myeong has just finished testing the cooperative assembly robot for jellyfish population control, named JEROS, in the field.
Sep 30th, 2013
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This research will allow robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to a robot that can learn or even become autonomous.
Sep 26th, 2013
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Researchers at the University of Stuttgart develop a lightweight timber construction system combining robotic prefabrication with computational design and simulation processes, as well as three-dimensional surveying technologies used in engineering geodesy.
Sep 26th, 2013
Read moreInnovation and breakthroughs in a variety of scientific disciplines will be essential, and experts representing these diverse fields participated in a lively and provocative Roundtable Discussion on the future promise and current challenges of soft robots.
Sep 24th, 2013
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