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The US Air Force has flight tested the Skyborg combat drone's Autonomy Core System (ACS) for the first time. The "brain" of the autonomous Skyborg was installed in a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical uncrewed vehicle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and carried out a two-hour-and-10-minute flight.
NASA will send its first mobile robot, VIPER, to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface.
MIT designed a sharp-tipped robot finger, called Digger Finger, that can dig through granular media and sense the shapes of buried objects.
In a glimpse into the battlefield of the future, the Estonian Defence Force has carried out a live-fire exercise where two Milrem Robotics THeMIS combat robots provided troops with situational awareness, support fire, and casualty evacuation.
For some time now, we've been hearing about scaffolding-like implants that encourage bone tissue or cartilage to grow back into areas where it's missing. Now, scientists have developed a method for more quickly and easily 3D-printing such implants.
Three Behrend engineering students built the robot as part of a year-end class. They hope to develop an efficient and affordable model.
Salt Lake City International Airport, hospitality platform Servy and airport delivery company AtYourGate have launched a robot service the delivers meals to waiting passengers.
Researchers at Boston University (BU) have developed a new type of versatile robotic gripper inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, or paper cutting. In a paper released earlier this month, Doug…
Mobile deployment units a growing trend for inspection- and surveillance-oriented robotics.
People in a Beijing suburb will begin to see autonomous delivery mini-vans across their neighborhood, moving cautiously alongside human delivery riders belting down the streets. Beijing has greenlighted JD.com, Meituan and Neolix to trial self-driving delivery vehicles on designated public roads in ...
Robots automatically disinfect shopping malls and deliver meals in quarantine hotels, while a flight simulator trains pilots and students with an emphasis on aviation safety.
Italy — Fincantieri and Comau signed a letter of intent to develop prototypes of robotized steel welding solutions and the resulting construction of a series of machines. The prototypes are planned to be initially used in Fincantieri shipyards.
Chris Cieslak discusses with Engineer Live what’s next for the offshore wind O&M sector. Read the full article online & subscribe for similar news to your inbox.
Creating robots that can perform acrobatic movements such as flips or spinning jumps can be highly challenging. Typically, in fact, these robots require sophisticated hardware designs, motion planners ...
The technology being rolled out in the south uses Bluetooth to configure the compression rate and depth needed for a patient's resuscitation.
Paramecium and certain other microbes move through liquid by whipping back and forth hairlike appendages known as cilia. Scientists have now developed a new type of synthetic cilia, which could find use in micro-robots and more.
In several places around this world, under the watchful eye of an organization called DARPA, people are working on creating robots that can operate underground, performing whatever task their human masters have in mind. If that wasn’t scary enough in itself, one of the teams working on this calls it...
Can a robot cook a paella as tasty as that made by a Spanish chef? Yes it can, according to a master chef who tried it.
Smart and nimble cleaning robots will soon help disinfect spaces. They twist and bend to hit hard-to-reach spaces with UV light or cleansing sprays.
When a choir of dulcet droids launched their singing careers with a mechanical take on the ‘Ode to Joy’.
Tianzhou 2 will be grabbed and redocked by a 10-metre arm that crawls around the station’s exterior, in a test of the technology before the first crew arrives.
Though Sphero released its first rolling robot way back in 2011, the company is probably best known for the BB-8 droid it released before Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens hit cinemas in late 2015. More recently, the focus has been on helping kickstart the coders and makers of tomorrow with a...
