While the most advanced robots, including Asimo, require a multitude of motors and sensors in each joint and […]
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The Pentagon is spending $127 billion on the Future Combat Systems programme to build heavily-armed robots in the […]
Kami-robo are paper robot designed to fight. First created by Tomohiro Yasui, they measure 15 to 20 centimeters […]
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Engineer Sanjay Joshi and professor of psychology Jeffrey Schank at UC Davis have recorded the behavior of rat […]
Julius Popp ‘s micro.adam and micro.eva are two simple robots who, like Adam and Eve in Paradise, will […]
The Scorpion robot, brainchild of German engineer Frank Kirchner, can descend steep cliffs, climb rough terrain, and squeeze […]
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The story on the fluorescent chicken (see post below) reminded me France Cadet ‘s DogLab project. Her five […]
Locust, a team of European scientists, is studying locusts navigational skills to develop a crash-avoidance technology. The insect […]
People doing strange things with electricity (II) Still at Dorkbot, I finally got to see Andre Stubbe and […]
Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h), by Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide got me totally and […]
First post from Transmediale, lots of robots, strange machines, interesting people and it feels strange to finally have […]
A few weeks, ago, came the news that Kim Jong-Hwan, the director of the Intelligent Robot Research Lab […]
Yoon Eui-sik, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has developed a tactile sensor that […]
Dr. Michael R. Treat and a team at Columbia University have crafted Penelope, a robotic arm meant to […]
Each of the Swarm robots on wheels has red, yellow and green lights, like a traffic light. The […]
Japanese researchers have turned a humanoid industrial machine into a master of Japanese traditional dance in a bid […]
Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, is a scientific lab specializing in surprising experiments in robotics. One of […]
British TV presenters Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan had to take care of a baby robot for a […]
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology claim to have fathered the world’s smartest robot able […]
Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at USC, has devised a robot that, guided by architect’s computerized drawings, can squirt […]
By adopting one of derstrudel ‘s robots, you accompany the creation of the robot and the projects it […]
As a first step to reach its objective to be the first in the automobile industry to use […]
Rotundus AB in Sweden has developed a spherical robot. By moving an internal mass, the robot run in […]
The Playbot calendar, made by scientists for scientists, stars robots in insinuating positions and displaying their “private areas.” […]
Scientists from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy), found the ragworm, which lives in seashores, could inspire a […]
The upcoming 2005 world expo in Aichi (March 25 – September 25) will be a showcase of Japan’s […]
MIRROR ‘s researchers have studied how robots can learn to communicate by imitating humans’ gestures. They first observed […]
Adding an artistic twist to the Origami-folding robot , the Oribots begin as small, compact units, and then, […]
elf – electronic-life-forms, Pascal Glissmann and Martina Höfflin, is a two-part installation. The first part shows photographs of […]
Honda Motor has announced the next-generation ASIMO that acts much more nimbly in real-world environments. A new Posture […]
A collaborative group of researchers is working to develop a network of sensing devices and water-monitoring robots, including […]
Massey University (New Zealand) engineering graduate Tim Brooks has developed a teleoperated robotic arm and control system that […]
Korean scientists claim to have created genes that a robot can pass on to other robots. Professor Kim […]
Steven Skaar, a robotics professor at Notre Dame, thinks there’s a kind of Emperor’s New Clothes world where […]
Shane Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, have designed two tiny camera-carrying robots that can […]
Fernando Orellana ‘s Unending Enclosure features IR-equipped robots imprisoned in wooden columns, living in constant fear and distrust. […]
Spansih artists Carlos Corpa and Ana María García Serrano got a third prize at the Art & Artificial […]
NASA considers farming a matter of survival for future long-term space missions. But who will care for crops […]
You love to play table tennis, but have no partner? Just install Butterfly Amicus 3000 , the table […]
At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, neurobiologist Kenji Doya is using “cyber rodents” to […]