The army’s amazing 1962 four-legged Pedipulator beat Star Wars to it by 15 years
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Tag: robots
Scientists create light-activated stingray robot composed of rat cells
A stingray created from living rat cells blurs the line between technology and nature.
Six cockroach-sized micro robots tow a 3,900-Pound Car
Inspired by ants, researchers mimicked the insects' individual super strength and collective hive mind in tiny robots. Each weighs only ...
How robots are transforming healthcare
The world of robotics is extremely exciting. Everyday we come closer to building R2-D2, Terminators, and the Iron Giant. The ...
The star(fish) destroying robot is yellow and deadly
Picture this: A city under siege. Many of the outlying buildings are old, dry, lifeless shells of their former beauty ...
RoboHow: the Wikipedia that teaches robots how to cook
An European initiative founded in 2012, dubbed RoboHow, comes to take up the challenge of improving the way robots work ...
University of California 3D printed fish are the most advanced microbots we built to date
Nanoengineers from the San Diego University of California used innovative, self-developed 3D printing methods to create multipurpose, fish-shaped microbots - ...
MIT tackling more serious science: they program beer-delivering robots
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is on the brink of revolutionizing relaxation with their ...
Suidobashi Heavy Industries accepts US’s Megabot Inc challenge for a giant robot duel
Earlier this month, Megabots Inc issued a video challenge on Youtube to Suidobashi Heavy Industries, to pit the company's' biggest, ...
When robots are everywhere, what will humans be good for?
This question was prompted to Ray Kurzweil - well known futurologist, pioneer of the Singularity Movement and Director of Engineering ...
Meet the world’s first robot chef, for the rich and lazy
Tired of cooking your own food, hiring help or eating out? Tired of eating, for that matter? Just kidding. The ...
Anti-robot protest rallied at SXSW is just a marketing stunt – the message isn’t
About two dozen University of Texas students gathered on Saturday at the entrance to the SXSW tech and entertainment festival ...
Swarm of 1,000 robots self-assemble in complex shapes
In a breakthrough in robotics, researchers have programmed a swarm consisting of a whooping 1,024 members which can assemble in ...
Origami-bot folds itself from one single sheet of electronics, then walks away
Photo: Seth Kroll Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of Origami, engineers at Harvard and MIT ...
This author edits 10,000 Wikipedia entries a day
Photo: prisonplanet.com Sverker Johansson could encompass the definition of prolific. The 53-year-old Swede has edited so ...
Robot fish is remarkably similar to the real thing
PHOTO: MIT Isaac Asimov, the father of the three laws of robotics, made some startling predictions ...
Half of U.S. jobs at risk of being taken over by computers
Are you ready to greet our new office robot overlords? (C) MotherJonas An Oxford study ...
Psychic robot can anticipate when you want a beer and pours you one
There are all kinds of robots nowadays that are here to assist humans with their daily chores, both at work ...
Robot swarms hint towards the future
When you think of robots, the first thing you might think of are anthropological-looking tin cans that beep around and perform ...
Internet for robots comes online
Just recently European scientists have released the first part of the Rapyuta program - a global world wide web for robots. ...
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