The 1.20 meters (almost four feet) “OFRO+detect” could soon be employed to protect next year’s World Cup in […]
Tatsuo Arai and his team at Osaka University have created a six-limb robot for disaster rescue that walks […]
Researchers at Tohoku University have developed the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot. It has a woman’s face, a sensor […]
A nifty solution to the “boredom of filming wedding ceremonies” or the danger of filming in a dangerous […]
While I was in Berlin two weeks ago, I was amazed by all these shops selling hot sausages. […]
Toshiba has developed two robots which “approach the concept of a life support partner.” One of the new […]
A prototype of R2D2 has been built by researchers at the MediaLab from the University of Pisa who […]
Patients at St Mary’s hospital in London are being seen by “Sister Mary” a medical robot which allows […]
During this short (oh! so so short) trip to Berlin, I met Franz Fietzek who’s doing weird and […]
A team of computer scientists led by Professor Mark Lee from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth are to […]
Nico, a humanoid robot developed by Brian Scassellati’s lab at Yale University, has a head, neck, torso, one […]
Japanese robots are cute and make you smile; their European and American counterparts just look like robots. Words […]
Some rats’ movements at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn are being directed by remote control. By pressing […]
Aircraft mechanic Michael Harriman claims to have created the world’s most sophisticated robot sex doll. The sex androids […]
Japanese company Secom has released the “SECOM School Security,” a system which monitors kids using RFID tags while […]
Israeli start-up Tactile Technologies wants to put a robot in your mouth. The company recently obtained US Food […]
The Star-Kick has been awarded the Technology Transfer Award at the meeting of the “European Robotics Research Network” […]
I spent the whole day at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Saw really cool stuff, but this […]
I’m not sure many of the readers are building planes on a daily basis, but some might be […]
Madrid’s Polytechnic University has designed and built miniature robot bullfighters, programmed to tackle robot bulls, just like in […]
The United Arab Emirates is set to replace its practice of using children as camel jockeys with robot […]
Seoul plans to deploy robots with combat capability along the fortified inter-Korean border as part of revamped security […]
Flickerminick is a jittery fabric jellyfish that contains fans to inflate and deflate the body, tentacles which twitch […]
A police station in Fukuoka, Japan, appointed a high-performance security robot its chief for a day this April […]
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a “female” remote-operated humanoid dubbed Ahra. This counterpart to […]
The Pentagon awarded $12.2 million in grants today to develop robots able to perform full scalpel-and-stitch surgeries on […]
Robotica, by UK based artist Stanza, is an installation where robots are navigating the space to make music […]
This merry little machine is the SUBARU RoboHiter , an outdoor cleaning robot currently on show at Aichi […]
The M-TRAN II robot, developed by the Japanese Distributed Systems Design Research Group, is made up of a […]
At Aichi World Expo, measures against terrorist attacks are a priority: 3,000 policemen will be joined by 1,000 […]
Adrian Bowyer, from Bath University (England), envisions a make-it-all machine that would enable you to design and manufacture […]
Robotic dolls that behave like babies addicted to drugs and alcohol are being used to teach teenagers on […]
The Robotic Birds, by Paul Granjon, are very simple robots based on small electric motors and LEDs. They […]
Japan will welcome the guests at the World Expo opening in Aichi on March 25 with robots trained […]
Experts at the McVitie’s laboratory in the UK have invented a mannequin with a motorised mouth to test […]
Darpa wants to get little mechanical puppies to figure out how to walk on their own, in the […]
Scientists are studying ants behaviour to help solve technical problems. An ant can work out the quickest way […]
Six years ago Yoseph Bar-Cohen, physicist at NASA, challenged other researchers to build a robotic arm using artificial […]
Japanese software company SGI has developed a mannequin robot that can strike a pose for the nearest person […]
Engineers from the Institute of Infocomm Research and the National University of Singapore are developing robots that can […]