Robotics news
Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury
Nov 16, 2006 |
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a ...
Robot with a Biological Brain: new research provides insights into how the brain works
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first ...
Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle
Apr 29, 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute is unveiling a unique unmanned ground vehicle that offers new strength, mobility ...
Robot walks on water
Jul 11, 2007 |
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Water striders, insects that walk on the surface of the water, may never set foot on land in their lives, and yet they’re not swimmers. Over the past million or so years, this insect—sometimes called a water ...
Dutch robot Flame walks like a human
May 22, 2008 |
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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides ...
Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress
Feb 21, 2007 |
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Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other ...
Robot carries out operation by itself
May 19, 2006 |
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For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself.
Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "In 1981, a 37-year-old factory worker named Kenji Urada entered a restricted safety zone at a Kawasaki manufacturing plant to perform some maintenance on a robot. In his haste, he failed ...
Robot builds itself for special tasks
Feb 22, 2007 |
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In one of the latest studies on autonomous robots, scientists sat back and watched as their robot created itself out of smaller robotic modules. The result, called “swarm-bot,” comes in many varieties, depending ...
ATR, Honda Develop New Brain-Machine Interface
May 24, 2006 |
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Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Honda Research Institute Japan Co. (HRI) have collaboratively developed a new “Brain Machine Interface” (BMI) for manipulating robots using ...
Solar Plane to Fly Continuously Around Mars
Mar 14, 2007 |
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Sky-Sailor, the working dream of a solar-powered, autonomously-controlled microairplane, has exciting implications in two areas: one on the technological advances of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs); and anothe ...
Robotic ants building homes on Mars?
Oct 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be ...
A Perfect Female Companion: Project Aiko
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Aiko is a humanoid robot with a built in Biometric Artificial Intelligence Neural System (Brain) designed by Le Trung in Canada. Aiko is slightly less than 5-feet high with 32.24-inch bust, ...
With Mini in vivo Robots, Anyone Can do Surgery
Feb 05, 2008 |
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By attaching a millimeter-sized camera robot to a tether, scientists have designed a way to allow individuals with non-medical backgrounds to perform minimally invasive surgery in almost any location. Unlike ...
Researchers develop mobile robot that balances, moves on ball instead of wheels or legs
Aug 09, 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that ...
