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Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
10 Mar 2014
Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
A paper in Nature Communications earlier this year reports on "bio-bots". These tiny machines inspired by sperm, are ...
New-tech grippers hit the market
Frank Tobe
13 Jan 2014
Empire Robotics, a Boston-based start-up, is beginning to sell their VERSABALL kits, a new-tech jamming gripper enabling adaptive gripping operations with a single inexpensive tool.
Filled with a g...
Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel
20 Dec 2013
2022 update: A new, one-wheeled version of the Cubli has been developed. The one-wheel Cubli is a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel, as it i...
Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture
John Payne
25 Oct 2013
No, this is not about shapeshifting robots, come to save or destroy Earth. It is about transforming the contexts within which robotic technologies are applied, and about practicing robotics with the i...
ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2013
... Grabit, a 2012 SRI International spin-off, secures $3 million in Series A funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Nike and Formation 8, a tech VC in Silicon Valley....
RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions
RoCKIn Robotics Challenge
07 Sep 2013
RoCKIn is a three-year EU project that aims to use robot competitions in order to innovate smarter, more dependable robots, and to increase public awareness of robotics. Part of its focus is to look...
DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
Jim Haas
12 Jul 2013
DARPA unveiled their new humanoid robot Atlas that will be used as part of their robotics challenge. It can tackle rough terrain and carry human tools.
See on DARPA website....
Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery
Robohub Editors
06 May 2013
Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...
First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
Sabine Hauert
02 May 2013
Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...
Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA
Ioannis K. Erripis
27 Feb 2013
ESA is organizing the first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station (ISS). The competition is open for young people from ESA member states who can compete in three age grou...
Flying insects and robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Feb 2013
TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
Bioinspired robot STAR
Wolfgang Heller
21 Feb 2013
Researchers at the Biomimetic Millisystem Lab at UC Berkeley have developed a six legged, 12 cm long, bioinspired robot named STAR (Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot)....
Cell origami
Sabine Hauert
19 Feb 2013
A couple years back, a team from Harvard and MIT developed a sheet of "programmable matter" that could fold into 3D structures....
Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong
Ioannis K. Erripis
06 Jun 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY
In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...
