Garbage Drone Could Clean Up Oceans
From solar-powered underwater research bots to ones that tweet about California water quality, robots are becoming water-friendly devices. The Marine Drone is the latest among these, designed to search...
View ArticleLab-Made Jellyfish Hints at Heart Fix
Researchers have designed a bioengineered jellyfish that can swim, an early step in scientists' quest for a way to make fresh tissue for patients with damaged hearts. The lab-made jellyfish is created...
View ArticleDisaster drones: How robot teams can help in a crisis
An ominous plume of black smoke hangs over east London. The scarcely believable news arrives in snippets: A huge blast has rocked the Thames Barrier; a surge of water is ploughing through the city; a...
View ArticleMars Curiosity Rover Is NASA's Biggest, Most Advanced Space-Exploration Robot...
When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer that...
View ArticleiRobot’s in-hospital robots to link doctors, patients
Military and consumer robot manufacturer iRobot Corp. in Bedford will unveil a new product Tuesday intended for the health care industry as it diversifies its product line in preparation for looming...
View ArticleCustom Japanese Hobby Robot Somersaults with Servo Tentacles
Straight from Japan comes this robot called "Metallic Vaio 2012," which has a style of locomotion that we've never seen before. Instead of using arms or legs, it's got a sort of combination of both:...
View ArticleTiny robot to remove blood clots in brain
What is the width of a human hair, the size of a grain of salt and could save lives? The Neuroglide microrobot. An electrically powered micromotor the size of a grain of salt, the Neuroglide has been...
View ArticleNerve Cells Grown In Lab Link Up Best When Arranged In Triangles: Study
Korean researchers have grown simple networks of nerve cells that could pave the way for a better model to test drugs, study the physiological roots of memory and help regenerate nerves in injured...
View ArticleCyton Gamma robot arm to work with humanity
A new robot arm extends its manipulator in a gesture of friendship. Will you shake it? Philadelphia-based robotics firm Robai hopes so. The latest of its Cyton robot arms is the Cyton Gamma, and it's...
View ArticleThese Robots Install Solar Panels
As the price of solar panels has plummeted, the amount of solar power being generated worldwide is soaring. Yet solar still accounts for less than 2 percent of the world's total electricity capacity....
View ArticleFemale Space Robot Learns to Move Like a Human
A space robot with a female form could someday join NASA's humanoid robot in helping human astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Germany's AILA robot has a female figure, a head molded...
View ArticleBotiful Is an Awesome Android Robot You Can Control via Skype
Imagine if you could talk to your family, kids or friends on Skype, while following them around, looking at whoever you want whenever you want, and walking around the room freely as if you were there....
View ArticleRobotic ray could end up flapping through an ocean near you
Sometime in the future, perhaps sometime soon, the robotic jellyfish, octopi and fishcruising the world’s oceans may have to make way for one other companion – the robotic ray. A team led by University...
View ArticleAnother Reason Not to Fear Robots Just Quite Yet
I think most of us have accepted the fact that one day robots will become so advanced that they'll take over the planet and enslave mankind. But until that day comes, we've still got a good five or six...
View ArticleFederal agencies kick off $132 million effort to create 'human on a chip'
Many medications and treatments, even after years of research, fail in the final phase of review — when they're actually tested in humans. Despite having performed well in the lab, in mice, and perhaps...
View ArticleGoogle shows ISPs how to build a superfast network
Google is showing the cable companies and telecommunications providers how a broadband network should be built. On Thursday, the company took the wraps off its new Google Fiber and Google Fiber TV...
View ArticleThe world’s first 3D-printed gun
An American gunsmith has become the first person to construct and shoot a pistol partly made out of plastic, 3D-printed parts. The creator, user HaveBlue from the AR-15 forum, has reportedly fired 200...
View ArticleRevenge of “The Turk”
Artificial intelligence mavens have often pointed out that it’s easier for a computer to play master-level chess than to pick up the pieces and put them on their intended squares. Moral: to survive the...
View ArticleUgandan man builds robots in his bedroom
Victor Kawagga is a softly spoken young man, but his quiet manner can't counter the eager sparkle in his eyes and the passion he has for the machines he's surrounded by. The bedroom of this house in...
View ArticleNew cell regeneration method uses gene therapy to repair bone tissue
Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have developed a new method of repairing bone using synthetic bone graft substitute material, which combined with gene therapy, can mimic...
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