Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity (VIDEO)
Paralyzed by a stroke, Henry Evans uses a telepresence robot to take the stage -- and show how new robotics, tweaked and personalized by a group called Robots for Humanity, help him live his life. He...
View ArticleScientists inch closer to building a drug-delivering nanorobot
Researchers say their proof-of-concept is a major step toward designing a nanocage that carries medicine around the body and targets specific diseased cells. Scientists have been toying for years with...
View Article“Bacteriobot”. Korea Develops First Cancer-treating Nanorobot
A Korean research team has successfully developed bacteriobots that can diagnose and treat cancer. This bacteria-based robot is expected to be utilized to develop new treatments for cancer and various...
View ArticleMicroprinting leads to low-cost artificial cells
Easily manufactured, low-cost artificial cells manufactured using microprinting may one day serve as drug and gene delivery devices and in biomaterials, biotechnology and biosensing applications,...
View ArticleSupercomputers help researchers identify key molecular switch that controls...
If scientists can control cellular functions such as movement and development, they can cripple cells and pathogens that are causing disease in the body. Supported by National Institutes of Health...
View Article"Nanobiopsy" allows scientists to operate on living cells
Scientists have developed a device that can take a "biopsy" of a living cell, sampling minute volumes of its contents without killing it. Much research on molecular biology is carried out on...
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How engineers build lovable robots
This Friday people will be watching Her, a movie about a man who falls in love with the AI system that runs his house. In the film, his love is serendipitous; but in real life, there are engineers...
View Article10 pop-culture robots that shaped the future
Say "laptop" or "tablet" or "app" to a technophile and you may get them interested. Say "robot," and you've got them excited. For centuries, we've been intrigued by the concept of creating mechanized...
View ArticleIntel Robot Puts Touch Screens through Their Paces
In a compact lab at Intel’s Silicon Valley headquarters, Oculus the robot is playing the hit game Cut the Rope on a smartphone. Using two fingers with rubbery pads on the ends, the robot crisply taps...
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Scientists create Terminator-style muscle at 1,000 times human strength
American scientists have developed a robotic muscle 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s – using a revolutionary material that fluidly changes its properties. The invention gives vanadium dioxide...
View ArticleFive mysteries of the brain
For centuries, the brain was a mystery. Only in the last few decades have scientists begun to unravel its secrets. In recent years, using the latest technology and powerful computers further key...
View ArticleDARPA Robotics Challenge 2013: Google-Owned SCHAFT Robot Blows Away The...
At the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013, 16 teams competed in eight tasks for a chance to advance to the finals, where they would have a chance to win a $2 million grand prize. Team SCHAFT and its...
View ArticleFrance implants its first artificial heart
An artificial heart that can give patients up to five years of extra life has been successfully implanted for the first time. The heart, powered by watch-style batteries that can be worn externally,...
View ArticleCrablike robots with magnetic feet can inspect crumbling bridges
Engineers in Japan have invented a robot that can scale walls, inspect aging bridges, and do the crab-walk. The multifaceted magnetic bridge bots can scurry faster than you can say their name, Bridge...
View ArticleWhy 2014 is poised to be a breakout year for 3D printing
3D printing technology is becoming more ubiquitous by the day thanks to regular releases of new, cheaper and simpler printers. What was once a novel market is beginning to poke out of its niche, though...
View ArticleAviation schools prepare for boom in drone jobs
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Two student pilots are seated shoulder to shoulder before a bank of video monitors, maneuvering an unmanned aircraft by keyboard and mouse as the drone descends toward a...
View ArticleBionic leg controlled only with brain power
CHICAGO - Researchers have come up with new technology that may one day help amputee war veterans: an artificial leg that reads brain signals, and it's already being tested out. The bionic leg that can...
View Article'Terminator-style bionic hand is my perfect Christmas gift' says Royston man...
A man who was suicidal after losing his lower right arm in an industrial accident is looking forward to Christmas for the first time in seven years. Nigel Ackland was one of the first people ever to be...
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Surgical 3D printing BioPen writes in bone, nerve and muscle
Scientists at the University of Wollongong (that's a real place) in Australia have developed a device that replaces traditional surgery with something more akin to an art project. The BioPen is a...
View ArticleWriggling worm is breakthrough for artificial life
Early efforts to construct an artificial life form in a software model have reached a milestone as a digital worm begins to squirm in the same way that real animals are observed to An ambitious project...
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