Blind juggling robot keeps a ball in the air for hours
It's only a matter of time before robots start running away to join the circus. This "blind" robot - it has no visual sensors - can juggle a ball flawlessly and never gets tired. Designed by Philipp...
View Article2012 review: The year in technology
Read more: "2013 Smart Guide: 10 ideas that will shape the year" Controlling robots with thought alone could open up a new world for people with locked-in syndrome, while both health and education are...
View Article“Neuristor”: Memristors used to create a neuron-like behavior
Computing hardware is composed of a series of binary switches; they're either on or off. The other piece of computational hardware we're familiar with, the brain, doesn't work anything like that....
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Walkbot exoskeleton rehabilitates stroke survivors
After suffering a stroke or spinal cord injury, a patient regaining their ability to walk typically requires three to five physical therapists supporting them while physically moving their limbs. This...
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Panasonic Power Loader Light exoskeleton takes a load off your back
Robotic exoskeletons that artificially augment puny human muscles have been in development for years, but we're yet to see any of them really take off. Panasonic is still betting on its own solution,...
View ArticleA 3-D Printer Will Soon Print You New Organs
Design software company Autodesk has teamed up with bioprinting company Organovo to try to deliver us the future of personalized medicine: new organs that can be printed up just for you. Take a trip to...
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UCSD's robot baby Diego-san appears on video for the first time
A new android infant has been born thanks to the University of California San Diego's Machine Perception Lab. The lab received funding from the National Science Foundation to contract Kokoro Co. Ltd....
View ArticleCES 2013: Lego Mindstorms EV3 Comes to Life With iPad, iPhone Controller
LAS VEGAS–Back in the day Legos were used to build simple castles and towers. But today’s Legos can build robots that can work with your iPad or iPhone. And not only that, budding robotic engineers can...
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Here’s How Darpa’s Robot Ship Will Hunt Silent Subs
Submariners like to say there are two kinds of ships: subs and targets. The Pentagon’s futurists want to turn that aphorism on its head, and develop a new kind of surface ship that can turn a sub into...
View ArticleMolecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing
An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made in nature....
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Top 10 robots of 2012
The U.S. military's drones – or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – were probably the most talked about robots of 2012. Every other week it seemed there was some story or other that grabbed headlines...
View ArticleInnovative System for the Rehabilitation of People With Brain Damage
The Biomechanics Institute of Valencia (IBV) is currently taking part in the European project WALKX with the aim of developing an innovative rehabilitation system to improve the quality of life of...
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Scientists create and control a molecular motor
An international team of scientists has designed a multi-component molecular motor that can be moved clockwise and counterclockwise. Although researchers are currently capable of rotating or switching...
View ArticleSpace sailing soon: A one-kilometer-long electric sail tether produced
The electric sail (ESAIL), invented by Dr. Pekka Janhunen at the Finnish Kumpula Space Centre in 2006, produces propulsion power for a spacecraft by utilizing the solar wind. The sail features...
View ArticleModel for brain signaling flawed, new study finds
A new study out today in the journal Science turns two decades of understanding about how brain cells communicate on its head. The study demonstrates that the tripartite synapse – a model long accepted...
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Nanoscale antennas, etched in chip, provide precise control of light
Electron micrograph of a nanophotonic phased array (NPA), consisting of 4,096 antennas. The image on the right zooms in on one of these antennas, which consists of a small set of lithographed ridges...
View ArticleNew Implant Replaces Impaired Middle Ear
Functionally deaf patients can gain normal hearing with a new implant that replaces the middle ear. The unique invention from the Chalmers University of Technology has been approved for a clinical...
View ArticleIN FOCUS: IAI pursues fly-on-the-wall UAV technology
When the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) "butterfly" unmanned air vehicle, or rather super micro vehicle, takes off in one of the company's hangars, it looks like a toy for spoiled boys who have...
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British stealth drone to undergo first test flight
It can fly faster than the speed of sound, cannot be detected by radar and has no pilot. This is the new robotic plane that will become the next generation of front line bombers for the British...
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"Superomniphobic" nanoscale coating repels almost any liquid
A team of engineering researchers at the University of Michigan has developed a nanoscale coating that causes almost all liquids to bounce off surfaces treated with it. Creating a surface structure...
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