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Taking a different approach to Google's self-driving cars, Oxford University has come up with a new autonomous car, which can drive itself, interact safely with other road users and can use roads efficiently.
Feb 17th, 2013
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Autodesk, Inc., a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, has partnered with The LEGO Group to provide 3D interactive building instructions for LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, a new platform designed to introduce a younger generation to the excitement of building and programming robots.
Feb 17th, 2013
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The future of robotics may be less Terminator and more gardener.
Feb 17th, 2013
Read moreTe new EU project euRathlon expands on the well-established SAUC-Europe underwater competition with land and airbone contests.
Feb 16th, 2013
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A remote controlled robot that uses dry ice to vacuum up radiation was unveiled by Japanese researchers on Friday, the latest innovation to help the clean-up at Fukushima.
Feb 15th, 2013
Read moreThey can already stand, walk, wriggle under obstacles, and change colors. Now researchers are adding a new skill to the soft robot arsenal: jumping.
Feb 13th, 2013
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The most advanced robotics test center in the U.S. opens today at UMass Lowell with a robotics demonstration and a report on the state of the industry.
Feb 12th, 2013
Read moreThe first-of-its-kind demonstration was performed during the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) aboard the International Space Station.
Feb 11th, 2013
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Swapping of roles improves efficiency as well as robots' confidence and humans' trust.
Feb 11th, 2013
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Researchers describe how an electrode array sitting on top of the brain enabled a 30-year-old paralyzed man to control the movement of a character on a computer screen in three dimensions and also to move a robot arm.
Feb 9th, 2013
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The bionic man featured in a Channel 4 documentary this week may not be a realistic copy of a human - but robots prompt questions about what we want from our most sophisticated machines.
Feb 8th, 2013
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She's just 5'5" and quiet, but don't let her demure looks fool you - she's a ruthless killer who moves at the speed of light. Meet Tru-D, the newest member of Vancouver General Hospital's (VGH) Housekeeping and Infection Control teams.
Feb 7th, 2013
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The objective of a new research proposal is to develop chemical marking techniques (artificial pheromone) for information transmittal for a robotic swarm performing cooperative tasking in a fixed formation.
Feb 7th, 2013
Read moreA small, two-wheeled robot has been driven by a male silkmoth to track down the sex pheromone usually given off by a female mate.
Feb 6th, 2013
Read moreWith the exception of a few select missions, human space flight is in a prolonged hiatus. If we want to achieve our dreams of exploring the solar system, robots will be the means.
Feb 1st, 2013
Read moreCutting-edge technology has enabled a team of experts to build remote buoys and robot platforms incorporating miniaturised sensors. Able to identify pollution types and measure concentrations in large bodies of water, this represents an ingenious advance for environmental monitoring.
Feb 1st, 2013
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German deep-sea researchers and space travel technologists jointly develop robot systems for the exploration of extreme regions.
Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreImagine an intelligent system managing the surgical tool sterilization process in a hospital - ensuring safe delivery of care, enabling new levels of hospital efficiency, and delivering with surgical accuracy all of the medical devices doctors need to perform life-saving procedures.
Jan 30th, 2013
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