Visitors to the London Science Museum will be in for a blast from the past, when a planned exhibition of 500 years of robotics kicks off in 2017. The exhibition will feature…
Tag: Robotics
Boston Dynamics Creates First Anti-Bullying Robot
People can’t have nice things. There are literally thousands of examples of this that took place in the time it took you to read this sentence. Humans, despite all of our creations and…
Robotic Arm Creates World’s First Three Armed Drummer
The Georgia Institute of Technology in the US has done it again. A research team led by Professor Gil Weinberg have created a robotic arm that is designed to play alongside and attached…
World’s First Robot Operated Farm Coming Soon
We may be moving towards a future where robots are responsible for growing our food if a new factory in Japan is any indication of the direction that technology may take. Spread,…
COTSbot to hunt down menacing crown-of-thorns starfish in Great Barrier Reef
Here’s how to tackle the menace of crown-of-thorns starfish – a robot, state of the art animal recognition engine, and 200 lethal shots of bile salts! Queensland University of Technology researchers have developed…
Robotic exoskeleton helps paralysed man walk
In a major breakthrough, 39-year-old Irish athlete Mark Pollock, who lost sight 16 years ago and had been paralyzed from the waist down for last four years, has regained enough voluntary control…
Thousands flock to Robotronica to get a glimpse of robotic future
Robotronica, organised at Brisbane’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), has been a day of discovery, fun and learning for many as thousands flocked to the public event to get a glimpse of…
Toyota’s Human Support Robot wants to help out as a care worker for the elderly
Toyota has introduced its Human Support Robot (HSR) as the company’s answer to the ever-increasing demand for care workers for the elderly in societies like Japan. The company cites official statistics from…
Researchers take cue from nature to develop robot that mimics water striders
Water striders are probably one of the most fascinating insects for their ability to ‘walk’ on water and taking a cue from them, an international team of researchers has developed a robot…
Soft-bodied 3D printed robot is flexible, extremely durable
Researchers have combined 3D printing advances and gradient material strategy to build a flexible robot that is devoid of the traditional rigidity of metallic components, but is also extremely durable. Unlike traditional…
DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Team Kaist lands $2 million top prize
Years of research and development, followed by days of intense preparations, a day of rehearsal and two days of head-to-head competition has finally brought the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals to an end…
Robotic visual systems could benefit from insect vision
Using years of research in insect vision, researchers at University of Adelaide are developing a new robot with visual systems borrowed from insects by combining principles of neuroscience, mechanical engineering and computer…
In a first, robotic cheetah can see and jump over hurdles
Researchers at MIT have developed a robotic cheetah – a first of its kind robot that has been trained to see and jump over hurdles as it runs. Much like how humans…
Robots can adapt like animals; can recover from injury in less the 2 minutes
Robots hold the promise of efficiency and will one day hugely benefit us by performing tasks which are impossible for humans, but that won’t be a reality until these automated machines learn…
Soft-robotic eel-like rover could help explore moons like Europa
NASA has set its eyes on exploring the icy moons of our Solar System with intentions of looking for any possible signs of life underneath the thick ice cover on these space…