Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing
A new robotic fish can change direction almost as rapidly as a real fish. Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are … Read more
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Herding robots
A new system combines simple control programs to enable fleets of robots — or other “multiagent systems” — to collaborate in unprecedented ways. Writing a … Read more
New CoBots are ‘help on wheels’
Meet CoBot–short for “Collaborative Robot.” You might call it “help on wheels.” With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), computer scientist Manuela Veloso and … Read more
Dreams of drones: Amazon’s delivery tech almost ready, insurance and regulation not so much
For Amazon’s recently announced drone delivery system to get off the ground, the company will have to solve numerous difficult technological challenges. Chief among them … Read more
Small cubes can propel themselves forward, jump, snap together into arbitrary shapes
In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, “That … Read more
Putting a face on a robot
What does the assistive robot of the future look like? It depends. A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and … Read more
Jellyfish Exterminator Robot Developed
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, … Read more
Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield
Too busy to vacuum your living room? Let Roomba the robot do it. Don’t want to risk a soldier’s life to disable an explosive? Let … Read more
Dragonflies can see by switching ‘on’ and ‘off’
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered a novel and complex visual circuit in a dragonfly’s brain that could one day help to improve … Read more
Robot mom would beat robot butler in popularity contest
If you tickle a robot, it may not laugh, but you may still consider it humanlike — depending on its role in your life, reports … Read more
Firefighting Robot Paints 3D Thermal Imaging Picture for Rescuers
Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of … Read more
