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Video: Cat Robot Stands and Runs, On Its Own Four Legs
Feline machine navigates steps without a brain
Feline machine navigates steps without a brain
Robotics
Source: Science
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013, 7:59am
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Source: Science
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013, 7:59am
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Flying Robots
Compact unmanned aerial vehicles will perform many valuable jobs if aviation regulations allow them to operate commercially.
Compact unmanned aerial vehicles will perform many valuable jobs if aviation regulations allow them to operate commercially.
Robotics
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013, 7:59am
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Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013, 7:59am
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Steered by thoughts, drone flies through hoops
Look, no hands... A pilot has used thoughts alone to guide a remote-controlled drone around an aerial obstacle course
Look, no hands... A pilot has used thoughts alone to guide a remote-controlled drone around an aerial obstacle course
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Wednesday, Jun 05, 2013, 8:02am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Wednesday, Jun 05, 2013, 8:02am
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Autonomous rovers to compete for $1.5 million NASA prize
11 teams are competing to create the best robotic rover for the space agency's 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge
11 teams are competing to create the best robotic rover for the space agency's 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge
Robotics
Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 04, 2013, 7:56am
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Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 04, 2013, 7:56am
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Stop producing "killer robots," U.N. expert warns
Programming machines to kill without humans making decisions could encourage more wars, human rights expert warns
Programming machines to kill without humans making decisions could encourage more wars, human rights expert warns
Video: Principles of locomotion in confined spaces could help robot teams work underground 
Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.
Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.
Robotics
Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
Posted on: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 8:00am
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Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
Posted on: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 8:00am
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Video: Robotic insects make first controlled flight
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air.
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air.
Robotics
Source: Harvard University
Posted on: Friday, May 03, 2013, 11:00am
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Source: Harvard University
Posted on: Friday, May 03, 2013, 11:00am
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Seahorse's armor gives engineers insight into robotics designs
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail's exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other. Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure to create a flexible robotic arm equipped with muscles made out of
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail's exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other. Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure to create a flexible robotic arm equipped with muscles made out of
Materials Science
Source: University of California - San Diego
Posted on: Thursday, May 02, 2013, 4:45pm
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Source: University of California - San Diego
Posted on: Thursday, May 02, 2013, 4:45pm
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Tiny flying robots! Meet the quadrotor
It's a mesmerizing, surreal scene. Eight tiny, unmanned aerial vehicles -- called quadrotors -- begin to rise from the ground in unison.
It's a mesmerizing, surreal scene. Eight tiny, unmanned aerial vehicles -- called quadrotors -- begin to rise from the ground in unison.
Baby sea turtles and flipper-driven robot reveal principles of moving on sand
For sea turtle hatchlings struggling to reach the ocean, success may depend on having flexible wrists that allow them to move without disturbing too much sand. A similar wrist also helps a robot known as "FlipperBot" move through a test bed, demonstrating how animals and bio-inspired robots can together provide new information on the principles governing locomotion on granular surfaces.
For sea turtle hatchlings struggling to reach the ocean, success may depend on having flexible wrists that allow them to move without disturbing too much sand. A similar wrist also helps a robot known as "FlipperBot" move through a test bed, demonstrating how animals and bio-inspired robots can together provide new information on the principles governing locomotion on granular surfaces.
Robotics
Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
Posted on: Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013, 10:30am
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Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
Posted on: Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013, 10:30am
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Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics
Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.
Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.
Robotics
Source: University of Michigan
Posted on: Monday, Feb 25, 2013, 12:15pm
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Source: University of Michigan
Posted on: Monday, Feb 25, 2013, 12:15pm
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Engineers solve a biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence
By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules – a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity. (Proceedings of the Royal Society, Jan. 30, 2013.)
By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules – a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity. (Proceedings of the Royal Society, Jan. 30, 2013.)
Technology
Source: Cornell University
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013, 2:45pm
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Source: Cornell University
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013, 2:45pm
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New robotic fish glides indefinitely
A high-tech robotic fish hatched at Michigan State University has a new look. A new skill. And a new name.
A high-tech robotic fish hatched at Michigan State University has a new look. A new skill. And a new name.
Robotics
Source: Michigan State University
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 17, 2013, 2:30pm
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Source: Michigan State University
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 17, 2013, 2:30pm
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Flexing fingers for micro-robotics: Scientists create a powerful, microscale actuator
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an elegant and powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a tiny beckoning finger. Based on an oxide material that expands and contracts dramatically in response to a small temperature variation
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an elegant and powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a tiny beckoning finger. Based on an oxide material that expands and contracts dramatically in response to a small temperature variation
Technology
Source: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012, 8:00am
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Source: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012, 8:00am
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A Drone of One's Own
An age of UAVs for everyone could be nigh.Unmanned aerial vehicles may be controversial, particularly in America’s war on terror. But sometimes UAV’s don’t shoot bullets--sometimes they simply shoot photographs. Lehmann Aviation recently announced a miniature, automatic UAV that can be used to take aerial images. It’s so easy a civilian can use it! Provided that civilian has 990€ (plus money to spend on a GoPro camera). Welcome to the age of the personal drone.
An age of UAVs for everyone could be nigh.Unmanned aerial vehicles may be controversial, particularly in America’s war on terror. But sometimes UAV’s don’t shoot bullets--sometimes they simply shoot photographs. Lehmann Aviation recently announced a miniature, automatic UAV that can be used to take aerial images. It’s so easy a civilian can use it! Provided that civilian has 990€ (plus money to spend on a GoPro camera). Welcome to the age of the personal drone.
Robotics
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012, 10:21am
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Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012, 10:21am
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Robotic fish research swims into new ethorobotics waters
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have published findings that further illuminate the emerging field of ethorobotics — the study of bioinspired robots interacting with live animal counterparts.
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have published findings that further illuminate the emerging field of ethorobotics — the study of bioinspired robots interacting with live animal counterparts.
Robotics
Source: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012, 4:00pm
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Source: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012, 4:00pm
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Bionic hand makes amputee 'feel human again' – video
Nigel Ackland demonstrates his new £12,000 bionic hand fitted after his arm was amputated following an industrial accident
Nigel Ackland demonstrates his new £12,000 bionic hand fitted after his arm was amputated following an industrial accident
Robotics
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 08, 2012, 9:11am
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Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 08, 2012, 9:11am
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Flea-like robot takes giant leap in bot locomotion
A tiny robot inspired by fleas can fling itself 30 times its body length – a leap forward in the attempt to get small bots to move a long way in a hurry
A tiny robot inspired by fleas can fling itself 30 times its body length – a leap forward in the attempt to get small bots to move a long way in a hurry
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 01, 2012, 8:40am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 01, 2012, 8:40am
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Program a Revolutionary Robot to Do Your Bidding
It’ll soon be possible to hack Baxter—a new kind of industrial robot—to do just about anything.
It’ll soon be possible to hack Baxter—a new kind of industrial robot—to do just about anything.
Robotics
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Friday, Oct 26, 2012, 9:51am
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Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Friday, Oct 26, 2012, 9:51am
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'I'm fortunate to survive': Nobel winners speak out
Some of the winners of this year's Nobel prizes tell us how they heard the news and how it will affect their lives and research
Some of the winners of this year's Nobel prizes tell us how they heard the news and how it will affect their lives and research
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Oct 19, 2012, 8:07am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Oct 19, 2012, 8:07am
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Tax-Funded 'Robo-Squirrel' Criticized
San Diego State University's taxpayer-funded project to invent a "robo-squirrel" has been criticized as a boondoggle by an Oklahoma senator, but the school has defended the endeavor, saying the grant that funded the project also helped support the education of 34 students.
San Diego State University's taxpayer-funded project to invent a "robo-squirrel" has been criticized as a boondoggle by an Oklahoma senator, but the school has defended the endeavor, saying the grant that funded the project also helped support the education of 34 students.
Robotics
Source: ABC News
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 18, 2012, 9:48am
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Source: ABC News
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 18, 2012, 9:48am
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RoboCops May Patrol The Future
Telepresent robots could be remotely controlled by disabled police and military veterans.
Telepresent robots could be remotely controlled by disabled police and military veterans.
Robotics
Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 02, 2012, 8:28am
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Source: Discovery Channel News
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 02, 2012, 8:28am
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Beam Yourself to Work in a Remote-Controlled Body
Telepresence systems that let you go to work remotely have proved awkward to use. One startup thinks it has solved those problems.
Telepresence systems that let you go to work remotely have proved awkward to use. One startup thinks it has solved those problems.
Robotics
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012, 8:10am
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Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012, 8:10am
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Virtuoso cartoon pianist plays just like the real thing
An algorithm designed to make computer-generated hands play piano far more realistically lets the fingers scamper across the keys just like a human player's
An algorithm designed to make computer-generated hands play piano far more realistically lets the fingers scamper across the keys just like a human player's
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012, 7:49am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012, 7:49am
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Video: Robot researchers aim to unlock secrets of lizard movement
Lizards can maneuver through sand extremely fast and without sinking - unlike most animals. Now, a team of scientists at Georgia Tech are out to discover how they do it. And, as CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports.
Lizards can maneuver through sand extremely fast and without sinking - unlike most animals. Now, a team of scientists at Georgia Tech are out to discover how they do it. And, as CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports.
8 advanced robotics projects win NASA funds
NASA will award a total of $2.7 million to eight advanced robotics projects, in an effort to push forward the frontiers of space exploration, agency officials announced.
NASA will award a total of $2.7 million to eight advanced robotics projects, in an effort to push forward the frontiers of space exploration, agency officials announced.
Robotics
Source: NBCnews
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012, 7:29am
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Source: NBCnews
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012, 7:29am
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This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing
A smarter, safer new industrial robot could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge.
A smarter, safer new industrial robot could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge.
Robotics
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 18, 2012, 8:35am
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Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 18, 2012, 8:35am
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Sprinting robot outpaces Usain Bolt and hits 45.5 km/h
Five months after setting the land speed record for a robot with legs, Boston Dynamics's Cheetah has outstripped the fastest of humans
Five months after setting the land speed record for a robot with legs, Boston Dynamics's Cheetah has outstripped the fastest of humans
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 06, 2012, 8:06am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 06, 2012, 8:06am
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Robot learns to recognise itself in the mirror
A robot called Nico has taken a step towards self-awareness by recognising that the mark on its body reflected in the mirror is its own
A robot called Nico has taken a step towards self-awareness by recognising that the mark on its body reflected in the mirror is its own
Robotics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012, 7:19am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012, 7:19am
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Flexible Robot Comes with Camouflage
A new flexible, color-shifting “soft robot” microfluidics networks – super small, interconnected fluid channels that can hold either gas or liquid –control color and pattern changes as well as movement, which create camouflage. The networks, embedded in sheets of silicon, are placed on the surface of soft robots. The research was done in the lab of George Whitesides at Harvard, and were inspired by nature, but published in Science.
A new flexible, color-shifting “soft robot” microfluidics networks – super small, interconnected fluid channels that can hold either gas or liquid –control color and pattern changes as well as movement, which create camouflage. The networks, embedded in sheets of silicon, are placed on the surface of soft robots. The research was done in the lab of George Whitesides at Harvard, and were inspired by nature, but published in Science.
Robotics
Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Friday, Aug 17, 2012, 7:40am
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Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Friday, Aug 17, 2012, 7:40am
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