by main roboticist via New Scientist
7 months 2 weeks ago
A robot with tentacles that is modelled on an octopus and having completely waterproof skin and suckers, it's the world's first wholly soft robot. The first prototype, currently on display at the...
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by main roboticist via ScienceDaily
7 months 2 weeks ago
This research enables a rat to interact with a robotic rat that is controlled by a human in a separate location. At the same time, the human participant in a VR environment is able to communicate...
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by main roboticist via Market Watch
7 months 2 weeks ago
Liquid Robotics has asserted that their Mercury Wave Glider went through Hurricane Sandy with winds up to 70 knots, while continuing to send weather data in real time. One hundred miles east of Toms...
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by main roboticist via Dezeen
7 months 3 weeks ago
Architect Brian Peters has made a desktop 3D printer produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures. Noting that he has been working with desktop 3D printers for a few years and wanted...
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by main roboticist via Keizai Society
7 months 3 weeks ago
Japan has been traditionally the world’s main innovator in robotics and its application in many serious industries. Yet in the past decade, the United States has greatly increased its role in this...
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by main roboticist via Cornell Chronicle
7 months 3 weeks ago
Cornell researchers have made an autonomous flying robot that is skillfull when it comes to flying around obstacles, making the machine very useful in rescue operations. Now researchers have improved...
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by main roboticist via IOOS
7 months 3 weeks ago
University of Southern Mississippi and Liquid Robotics launch ocean acidification study in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to investigate the practicability of new technologies in the Gulf of Mexico...
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by main roboticist via Gizmag
7 months 3 weeks ago
Researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology's Center for Intelligent Robotics have shown their new household service robot CIROS. CIROS is the third version of the robot since...
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by main roboticist via Physics
7 months 3 weeks ago
Experiments with a simple jumping robot described displayed that jumping is best when the timing is somewhat different from the resonant frequency of the jumper. The researchers’ results agreed with...
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by main roboticist via University of Canterbury
7 months 3 weeks ago
Researchers from University of Canterbury in New Zealand have found that people see robots as humans and not as objects. "Our experiment showed that we do perceive robots not as objects, but more...
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by main roboticist via MyBroadband
7 months 3 weeks ago
The Munich Research and Transfer Institute for Software-Intensive Systems has developed a skilled, one-armed robot bartender called JAMES that can say jokes together with serving drinks. “It’s...
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by main roboticist via NewScientist
7 months 3 weeks ago
This ping-pong playing robot is one of the best ones to date - it watches humans in the playing area and improves as it competes against them. Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in...
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by main roboticist via University of Southern California
7 months 3 weeks ago
The professors of University of Southern California have won an esteemed NASA research award to develop new robotic construction technologies for building structures on Mars and the Moon. The project...
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by main roboticist via Space
7 months 3 weeks ago
The European-built PRIDE-ISV could enter orbit before the decade's end if the program to develop it gains funding approval next month. The outcome will be decided by the European Space Agency’s...
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by main roboticist via NASA
7 months 3 weeks ago
NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts have opened up registration and are looking for teams to compete in next year's robot technology demonstration...
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by main roboticist via FastCompany
7 months 3 weeks ago
Here is an overview of robotic news this week: the Pet-Proto that will ultimately be able to climb a ladder and overcome obstacles, the Bossa Nova robotics with its research robotics platform called...
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by main roboticist via Slate
7 months 3 weeks ago
Take a look at how researchers from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa in Portugal have combined the efforts of helicopter drones with small rovers to...
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by main roboticist via Ubergizmo
7 months 3 weeks ago
In July of this year, Kuratas the giant robot was shown by Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industry company. Being quite overpowering, it has a height of 3.8 meters and can be controlled in three ways -...
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by main roboticist via ROBOY
7 months 3 weeks ago
University of Zuerich's (Switzerland) world-famous Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), has a new goal: the development of Roboy the humanoid robot within 9 months. A crowd funding platform...
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by main roboticist via NewScientist
7 months 3 weeks ago
By imitating how primates understand and view an unknown territory - this process is called mental rotation - researchers are compounding a new type of guidance system for robots. Giving robotic...
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by main roboticist via IEEE Spectrum
7 months 3 weeks ago
Here is the weekly overview of notable robot videos that include: Drexel University's HUBO rescue robot, Chiba's Institute Sakura disaster robot, Motoman, TU Delft's Team ATMOS with their ATMOV UAV,...
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by main roboticist via IEEE Spectrum
7 months 3 weeks ago
Bossa Nova Robotics has just showed a new research platform based on Carnegie Mellon's ballbot spherical locomotion platform. The robot called Mobi is said to be "the first step towards the creation...
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by main roboticist via RTE News
7 months 3 weeks ago
Japanese researchers have unveiled the prototype of a robot that can survey the crater of a volcano during its eruption. Researchers from Tohoku University and other institutions have developed this...
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by main roboticist via University of Delaware
7 months 3 weeks ago
Researchers from University of Delaware are part of one team competing in a new U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Challenge. Their robot should be able to drive vehicles,...
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