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BBC News Swarming fire ants could be models for rescue robots NBCNews.com (blog) And researchers believe these new findings about their curious locomotion could give engineers lessons for building automated search-and-rescue robots designed to hunt...
Army of Underwater Vehicles to Unravel Ocean Mysteries LiveScience.com For instance, there's a possibility that alien life exists on distant exoplanets, but scientists know for sure that hundreds or thousands of undiscovered species lurk beneath...
In effort to host "one of the most protected sports events in history," Brazil is enlisting 30 camera-equipped PackBots for added security.
Drone Dudes are a team of filmmakers and designers who use RC copters to capture stunning aerial cinematography. In this video we interview Andrew Petersen and Jeff Blank, who operate a radial octocopter capable of lifting cameras up to 12lbs.
A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how to perform new tasks. The system, which is under development as an artificial brain for autonomous mental development robots, is currently being used to learn about objects in photos using image searches on the internet. It can also take aspects of other known objects and combine them to make guesses about objects it doesn't yet recognize.
Via Szabolcs Kósa, Martin Talks
Lego bricks are getting cozy with the iPhone and other Apple devices in the latest incarnation of the Mindstorms robotics kit.
A team at Herriot-Watt University’s Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help it develop coralbots that...
Open robotics platform with ready to use hardware and software modules.
The fact that robots can find their way through a maze without complex navigation strategies suggests the same is true for ants.
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Haptic technology is breaking new and promising ground in the field of surgical robots. Learn more about haptics and how it is changing the idea of senses.
New Jersey Institute of Technology's Simon Garnier and other researchers have used tiny robots called Alices to mimic the behavior of ants, something they say (RT @sugusiceruk: http://t.co/Kbol3eMHDx...
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"How hard could it be to make a robot bird whose wings can flap independently of each other?" Institute for Systems Research, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
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T.H.O.R. (Tactical Hazardous Operations Robot) is a humanoid robot being developed at RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) at Virginia Tech for disaster...
These robots can assemble your Swedish furniture, without even looking at the instructions (MIT Robots Can Assemble Your IKEA Furniture For You http://t.co/MoO5Se2VAX)...
Some believe in a utopian future, in which humans can transcend their physical limitations with the aid of machines. But others think humans will eventually relinquish most of their abilities and gradually become absorbed into artificial intelligence (AI)-based organisms, much like the energy making machinery in our own cells.
Via Szabolcs Kósa, michel verstrepen
Flies are some of the most agile and maneuverable creatures on Earth. While some technologies like airplanes and helicopters mimic the motions of flies, rese...
Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input 'should not have the power of life and death over human beings,' a new draft U.N. report says. ...
A robotics group led by Professor Sylvain Calinon at the Italian Institute of Technology is teaching robots how to deal with real-world problems.
Technology can help users "touch" virtual objects and distant environments as though they were real and within reach.
A new stabilization system for the Phantom remote-controlled flying drone helps it capture stunning landscapes and maneuver in tight spaces.
Via Gust MEES, michel verstrepen
NASA plans to lasso asteroid with robotic spaceship so astronauts can explore it, a Fla. senator says. (#robotics NASA plans to lasso asteroid with robotic spaceship so astronauts can explore ... - The Denver Chann...
A 170 pounds, six-foot long robot jellyfish named Cyro is now patrolling U.S. coastal waters.
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