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Robot Mom Would Beat Robot Butler in Popularity Contest
If you tickle a robot, it may not laugh, but you may still consider it humanlike — depending on its role in your life, reports an international group of researchers. Nao, a social robot developed by...
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Researchers Perform DNA Computation in Living Cells
Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live cells, as well...
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Helping Robots Become More Touchy-Feely, Literally: Paper-Thin E-Skin...
A new milestone by engineers at UC Berkeley can help robots become more touchy-feely, literally. In this artistic illustration of an interactive e-skin device, the intensity of the emitted light...
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Snake Robot On Mars?
The ESA wants its operations on other planets to have greater mobility and manoeuvrability. SINTEF researchers are looking into whether snake robots could be the answer. The researchers envisage using...
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Robotic Fabrication in Timber Construction
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart develop a lightweight timber construction system combining robotic prefabrication with computational design and simulation processes, as well as...
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Putting a Face On a Robot
What does the assistive robot of the future look like? It depends. Georgia Tech graduate student Akanksha Prakash found that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want...
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Neglected Statistical Tool Could Help Robots Better Understand the Objects in...
Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision. But a robot that manipulates objects in the world needs to do more than just recognize them; it also needs to...
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Gimball: A Crash-Happy Flying Robot
Gimball bumps into and ricochets off of obstacles, rather than avoiding them. This 34 centimeter in diameter spherical flying robot buzzes around the most unpredictable, chaotic environments, without...
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Underwater Robots Influence Complex Swimming Behaviors of Schooling Fish
Recent studies from two research teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) demonstrate how underwater robots can be used to understand and influence the complex swimming...
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Prosthetic Hands Viewed as Eerie by the Public, New Study Shows
Members of the public would prefer to look at human hands or robotic hands rather than prosthetic hands which they view as eerie, a new study by The University of Manchester has shown. A prosthetic...
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‘Friendly’ Robots: Human-Android Relationships?
Two ‘friendly’ robots, including a 3D-printed humanistic android, are helping scientists to understand how more realistic long-term relationships might be developed between humans and androids. Erwin....
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Robotic Construction Crew Needs No Foreman
On the plains of Namibia, millions of tiny termites are building a mound of soil — an 8-foot-tall “lung” for their underground nest. During a year of construction, many termites will live and die, wind...
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Sociable Robots: Rise of Compliant Machines
Are we on the brink of a robotics revolution? That’s what numerous media outlets asked last December when Google acquired eight robotics companies that specialize in such innovations as manipulation,...
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Robotic Arm Probes Chemistry of 3-D Objects
When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material. A catalyst would have been needed, but enzymes had not yet evolved. One...
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Computers Teach Each Other Pac-Man
Researchers in Washington State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a method to allow a computer to give advice and teach skills to another computer in a...
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Mobile Robots Support Airplane Manufacturers
The robots move at walking speed along airplane components; in doing so, it applies a sealant against corrosion in equal measure. The mobile assistant is surrounded by technical workers who install,...
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Simplicity Is Key to Co-Operative Robots
A way of making hundreds — or even thousands — of tiny robots cluster to carry out tasks without using any memory or processing power has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield, UK....
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Intelligent Vehicle Detects Pedestrians at Night
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new pedestrian detection system for cars which works in low visibility conditions; the system is made up of infrared cameras which...
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Toward Smarter Underwater Drones
The news was not good. An underwater drone armed with the best technology on the planet had descended repeatedly to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, trying to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Time...
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Demonstrating a Driverless Future
In the coming decades, we will likely commute to work and explore the countryside in autonomous, or driverless, cars capable of communicating with the roads they are traveling on. A convergence of...
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