HyQ Quadruped Robot Is Back With Even More Tricks
HyQ, a quadruped robot created by the Italian Institute of Technology, already knew how to walk, trot, and kick. Last year, it learned how to quickly react to avoid falls when stepping on an obstacle....
View ArticleElectrical Stimulator to Prevent Migraines Receives FDA Approval
Pharmaceuticals are so 20th century. Medicine's buzzy new trend is electroceuticals: ways to treat ailments with electricity rather than chemicals. Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
View ArticleMIT Builds A ‘Soft Robotic’ Fish That’s Perfectly Cuddly, Moves Like The Real...
Soft robotics is a field that’s growing so fast MIT has created an entire journal dedicated to the field, and the first edition profiles a robot fish that can perform a getaway maneuver with its...
View ArticleRobot elephant trunk learns motor skills like a baby
I AM in Jochen Steil's lab, grasping a segmented, whiplashing tentacle that resists and tries to push me away. It feels strangely alive, as though I am trying to throttle a giant alien maggot. In fact,...
View ArticleBionic plants: Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy...
Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to our surroundings. Now, a team of MIT researchers wants to make plants even more...
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3D-printed medical device rescues baby's breath
A baby with a rare condition will get to go home for the first time thanks to a 3D-printed airway splint that is helping him breathe on his own. Garrett Peterson is only 18 months old, but he has been...
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The Future of Brain Implants
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant, no matter how loud? Or for a...
View ArticleCould robots be the journalists of the future?
Is robot journalism the future? It's not quite titanium machines in trenchcoats door-stepping celebrities or buzzing about in newsrooms, but media organisations are increasingly looking to developers...
View ArticleRobot Baboon Walks on 2 or 4 Legs
When talking about legged motion in robotics, we typically cite the number of legs and make assumptions based off that figure. For example, if I say something is bipedal, you typically thing of a...
View ArticleStretchable Antenna For Wearable Health Monitoring Devices
North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new, stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies, such as health monitoring...
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U.S. Navy's Robot Firefighters Prepare for a Test Run
A former United States naval vessel will be set on fire this August, and the Navy will send robots to put out the blaze. The Navy is testing robots that will put out fires instead of having sailors do...
View ArticleLandmark Alzheimer's Study Pinpoints Protein That Protects Aging Brain
The conundrum has stumped doctors for years. Why do neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's affect only the elderly? Why do some people live to be over 100 with normal brain functioning while...
View ArticleThe robot tricks to bridge the uncanny valley
Giving robots a series of small behavioural tics can make help them appear a lot more human, which makes us feel more comfortable interacting with them IF A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality...
View ArticleWearable Tech: Keeping It Close to the Chest
Wearable technology will generate more confidential data than ever before. But will it stay secure? Remember how, just a few years ago, something called “the cloud” was generating a whole lot of buzz?...
View ArticleSmartwatches and Google Glass in wearable technology showcase
The Olympia centre in west London is better known as the venue of the London International Horse Show, but the Wearable Technology Show, which began there on Tuesday, was so small it would have been...
View ArticleStretchable Antenna For Wearable Health Monitoring Devices
North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new, stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies, such as health monitoring...
View ArticleDARPA challenge contestant Google SCHAFT robot refuses military funding
Google is beginning to distance itself from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This military developer played an integral part in the development of the internet decades ago. But...
View ArticleElon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Have Invested $40 Million In A Mysterious...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk are investing $40 million into an artificial intelligence company called Vicarious alongside actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, reports the Wall...
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Microfluidic device with artificial arteries measures drugs' influence on...
A new microfluidic method for evaluating drugs commonly used for preventing heart attacks has found that while aspirin can prevent dangerous blood clots in some at-risk patients, it may not be...
View ArticleRobots: The Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence
If you’d have told me back in 1994 that in 20 years’ time I would be talking to the robots in my iPhone, I’d have replied with … well, nothing actually (I was born in ’93) but don’t let that detract...
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