Video: This Massive Jellyfish Is Really an Aquatic Spy Robot
This five-and-a-half-foot robot jellyfish could be the future of Navy underwater surveillance. Seriously. Maybe. Certainly, if a team of engineers from Virginia Tech gets its way. Meet the Cyro, an...
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The Pars Rescue Robot Won't Let You Drown
Amin Rigi of the RTS Lab in Tehran, Iran let us know about a new rescue robot they're working on. The robot is named Pars. it's a ship-based quadcopter that responds instantly when alerted to potential...
View ArticleThe march of the robotic ants
A team of international scientists has managed to successfully replicate the behaviour of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots. The researchers, based at the New Jersey...
View ArticleSwarming robots could serve future humans
Swarms of robots working together could ultimately provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Indeed, researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established...
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Russian Billionaire Wants to Create Cyborgs for Real
In science fiction, one of the most popular concepts is the cyborg — a creature that's part human and part machine. Now, a Russian billionaire is determined to take this sci-fi trope and make it a...
View ArticleHow Robots Are Revolutionizing Our World
We're all familiar with images of lurching robots performing rote tasks on the factory production lines. But the capabilities of robots have evolved well beyond the banality of those grainy industrial...
View ArticleObama to Unveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain
President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain, senior administration...
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Baidu – Google's search rival in China – is making a Google Glass knockoff
Five years ago, it was easier for a company to sneak a revolutionary tech product onto the market. Today the whole world is nervously watching. Anything that looks like it could be the next big thing...
View ArticleMiniature Chip Detects Rogue Cancer Cells
For cancer patients, things go from bad to worse when tumor cells escape into the bloodstream. The marauding cells—sometimes just one among a billion blood cells—can lodge anywhere in the body,...
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This Humanoid Robot Gets Pushed Around But Stays on Its Feet
Most humanoid robots developed over the past few decades have had stiff joints, and that's a problem if they're ever going to interact with people. Their unyielding arms and legs could injury a person...
View ArticleScientists print self-assembling 'living tissue'
Researchers have created networks of water droplets that mimic some properties of cells in biological tissues. Using a three-dimensional printer, a team at the University of Oxford, UK, assembled tiny...
View ArticleScientists Find Way To Spy On Your Dreams
Researchers say they have found a way to turn some of the fantasies seen in the movie Inception into a reality. Scientists say they discovered a potential way to decode dreams, enabling them to predict...
View ArticlePetman's New Video
The PETMAN robot was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the DoD CBD program. It is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous environments. The video shows...
View ArticleRadical roads drive robot cars
A lot is written about the rise of autonomous cars, such as those developed by Google, but these vehicles will also change our highways forever. One of the world’s most famously gridlocked cities in...
View ArticleMind Over Matter? Core Body Temperature Controlled by the Brain
A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Maria Kozhevnikov from the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences showed, for the...
View ArticleHarvard researchers showcase mind-controlled rodents
Researchers at Harvard University recently showcased a very interesting project where a human participant managed to control a rat. The experiment - conducted at the Harvard Medical School - was...
View ArticleSonic lasso catches cells
Academics have demonstrated for the first time that a “sonic lasso” can be used to grip microscopic objects, such as cells, and move them about. The research by academics at the University of Bristol’s...
View ArticleBrain waves may replace computer passwords
Computer passwords may soon be a thing of the past, replaced by "passthoughts" that users only have to think to have applied, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley,...
View ArticleThis cloud of atoms is an optical memory device
Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have managed to store visual images within a thin vapor of...
View ArticleCombining Nanowires and Memristors Could Lead to Brain-like Computing
For decades now, researchers have been trying to get computers to behave like artificial brains instead of merely binary data crunchers. One of the obstacles in creating this capability has been that...
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