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Cells power biological machines | University of Illinois
Andra Keay
16 Nov 2012
They’re soft, biocompatible, about 7 millimeters long – and, incredibly, able to walk by themselves. Miniature “bio-bots” developed at the University of Illinois are making tra...
Lemnos: A Silicon Valley Incubator for Hardware
Andra Keay
16 Nov 2012
Unlike other incubators, Lemnos Labs nurtures hardware makers...See on www.businessweek.com...
PatrolBot Mark II from Norris Labs
John Payne
14 Nov 2012
Not to be confused with another PatrolBot from Adept MobileRobots, this one uses a Kinect to see and a loud horn and water jet to chase away unwanted animals, depicted in this video by an inanimate bu...
US doesn’t have drone monopoly | Huffpost LIve
AJung Moon
14 Nov 2012
What are the current issues of drone technology? What countries have the technology? How do people feel about the covert nature of the technology? This experts discuss the status of the technology and...
Mind-controlled robot avatars at CNSR-AIST
Andra Keay
13 Nov 2012
The software necessary for mind-controlled robot avatars is being developed by an international team of researchers in Japan.See on www.gizmag.com...
DARPA working on sub-stalking robots | robots.net
Andra Keay
13 Nov 2012
A DARPA program is developing autonomous underwater robots that will stalk submarines and continuously report their location and movements.See on robots.net...
‘Dronestagram’ Robot strikes on instagram
Ioannis K. Erripis
12 Nov 2012
by DAVID AXE After 11 years of remote warfare including no fewer than 1,000 drone strikes, a 32-year-old London artist has begun chronicling the targets of U.S. robotic attacks on the photo-sharing......
Saul Griffith, Otherlab and inflatable robots | Wired.com
Andra Keay
12 Nov 2012
Saul Griffith, founder of Squid Labs, Makani Power, Instructables, and Otherlab, is the World's Most Wired Rogue Engineer. Inflatable robots and the Othercutter, a DARPA funded laser cutter rep...
Variable stiffness tubular layer jamming structure | Biomimetics MIT
John Payne
12 Nov 2012
A tubular variable stiffness structure designed for establishing a guide channel for single port surgery. The thin layered materials enables jamming stiffnes...See on www.youtube.com...
Why the future of space exploration is not what you think | Wired Science
John Payne
12 Nov 2012
NASA may be gearing up to send people back to the moon. But we don't live in the Apollo days anymore and new technologies are starting to radically redefine exploration.See on www.wired.com...
New self-repairing artificial skin published in Nature Nanotech | Stanford News
Sabine Hauert
11 Nov 2012
A team of Stanford chemists and engineers has created the first synthetic material that is both sensitive to touch and capable of healing itself quickly and repeatedly at room temperature.See on news....
Life telepresent: working vicariously through the Beam robot
Andra Keay
07 Nov 2012
Last week I took a trip to Willow Garage in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's not a hard place to find, and I was on time for my 11AM appointment. Just one problem: I was supposed to be at Suitable......
Robot farm workers take to the fields (gallery) | New Scientist
John Payne
06 Nov 2012
The Hortibot, “created by Rasmus Jørgensen and a team at Aarhus University in Denmark in 2007, Hortibot is a prototype agricultural robot that uses autonomous navigation, cameras and a va...
Purdue gets $6 million to develop robotic pruning for grapes, apples | Purdue Agriculture News
John Payne
06 Nov 2012
“Each year, fruit growers spend about 20 percent of their labor costs on pruning vines and trees. Peter Hirst, an associate professor of horticulture, is leading a program to develop and improve...
Isaac Asimov explains his three laws of robotics
Andra Keay
06 Nov 2012
For those of you who aren't familiar with Asimov's Laws of Robotics: First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.See on io9.com...
International Robotdalen Innovation Award
Andra Keay
06 Nov 2012
The award is aimed towards researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs with commercially valid robotics solutions.See on www.roboticstrends.com...
How an autonomous driving bill becomes law
Andra Keay
06 Nov 2012
Two years ago, no state legislature had even contemplated self-driving cars. Now, three states have passed legislation, several more are considering it, and Nevada's DMV has issued the world's first a...
3D Robotics announces VC funding and expansion plans
Ioannis K. Erripis
05 Nov 2012
Chris Anderson (CEO of 3D Robotics) announced a $5+ million funding round with two premier firms, which will accelerate the growth of 3DR and expand into new markets.See on www.diydrones.com...
Tufts researchers receive grant for soft-bodied robots
Andra Keay
05 Nov 2012
The soft-bodied robots are modeled primarily on caterpillars and are constructed of silicone instead of metal, according to Professor David Kaplan, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.Se...
Medical robotic capsule research
Andra Keay
05 Nov 2012
Metin Sitti, Carnegie Mellon professor in mechanical engineering and head of the Nanorobotics Lab, and Sehyuk Yim, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, recently received funding for their resear...
Man climbs Chicago skyscraper with bionic leg
Andra Keay
05 Nov 2012
CHICAGO (AP) — The metal on Zac Vawter bionic leg gleamed as he climbed 103 floors of Chicago's iconic Willis Tower, becoming the first person ever to complete the task wearing a mind-controlled pro...
Robot racing car aims for pole position
Andra Keay
02 Nov 2012
A 120mph sports car that thunders around tracks without a driver is helping develop next-generation vehicles.See on www.bbc.com...
Miners take rail-veyors and robots to automated future
Andra Keay
02 Nov 2012
In an office trailer parked outside a mine shaft in northern Ontario, operator Carolyn St-Jean leans back in her chair and monitors a machine loading nickel-rich ore into rail...See on www.reuters.com...
Noam Chomsky on where Artificial Intelligence went wrong
Andra Keay
02 Nov 2012
An extended conversation with the legendary linguist...See on www.theatlantic.com...
SwRI sets low-cost ROS-I consortium membership entry fees
John Payne
02 Nov 2012
Shaun Edwards, a senior research engineer in SwRI's Automation and Data Systems Division, having recognized a need for standardized software that could easily be ported from one industrial robot to an...
DARPA quadrotor autonomously avoids obstacles during flight | 33rd Square
AJung Moon
01 Nov 2012
See on www.33rdsquare.com...
New adaptive gripper from Willow Garage | Automaton
Sabine Hauert
01 Nov 2012
Willow Garage presents a compliant gripper that is able to conform to a variety of shapes using tendon like structures and a single actuator. See on spectrum.ieee.org...
Robot shows how to jump high
Andra Keay
30 Oct 2012
A simple robot demonstrates the timing and motion necessary to make the highest jumps, with parallels to human jumping.
See on physics.aps.org...
Registration opens for the 2013 NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge – WPI
Andra Keay
29 Oct 2012
The objective of the competition is to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technology. The competition offers as much as $1.5 million in prize money.
See on www.wpi....
Inversion effect in human-robot interaction
Andra Keay
29 Oct 2012
University of Canterbury researchers Christoph Bartneck and Jakub Zlotowski found people's brain functions showed they perceived robots as humans.See on www.stuff.co.nz...
Most US drones openly broadcast secret video feeds | Danger Room | Wired.com
Andra Keay
29 Oct 2012
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, ...
German robot learns ping-pong from people
Andra Keay
29 Oct 2012
Robots have played table tennis before. What sets this one apart is it is the first to learn by human demonstration.See on blogs.wsj.com...
Robot swarm coordination simplified by use of overhead drones | i-programmer.info
John Payne
29 Oct 2012
"Swarms of robots don't all have to be of the same type and one of the best known attempts to build a heterogeneous swarm was the swarmanoid project. Originally the swarmanoid consisted of three types...
Russia builds its first realistic female android
Andra Keay
26 Oct 2012
Moscow-based Neurobotics has revealed Russia's first female android.See on www.gizmag.com...
PaR-PaR: A simple high-level, biology-friendly robot-programming language | Berkeley Lab News Center
John Payne
26 Oct 2012
"Nathan Hillson, a biochemist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led the development of PaR-PaR, which stands for Programming a Robot. PaR-PaR is a simple...
Down on the robofarm | equities.com
John Payne
26 Oct 2012
"Soon, we might see fields with agribots that can identify individual seedlings and coax them along with tailored drops of fertiliser and measured sips of water. Other machines would distinguish weeds...
