One of the obvious giveaways that you’re interacting with a robot is their blank dead-eyed stare. The eyes don’t connect with yours the way they would if they were, you know, human. A research team at Disney is trying to fix that using subtle head motions and eye movements that make the robot seem m...
Combining solar and pedal power should get you through most outages
When it comes to tracking the positions of a person's moving hand, sensor-equipped gloves are often used. An experimental new system, however, utilizes a wrist-mounted camera … which doesn't even "see" the user's fingers.
Robots, drones, and AI designed to serve the construction industry face growing demand for quality data and repetitive tasks.
Room-temperature sintering enables skin sensors for vital signs
Microsoft and others have developed a smart fabric that could recognize the food on your table, or even lost keys.
In recent years, both MIT and Fraunhofer have announced the development of systems that use flying drones to keep track of inventory in warehouses. The Ware system offers a unique take on that same concept, and is already in use at multiple locations.
Tool manufacturer Hilti is launching a semi-autonomous overhead drilling robot to aid overhead drilling, which is one of the most strenuous tasks in the building trades.
It's clear robotic racing has some bugs to sort out as a Roborace participant's AI car drove directly into a wall.
Their goal was to create a bird-like drone that’s capable of both cruising long distances at high speeds while remaining highly maneuverable.
The device could one day mean less x-rays for people with dental implants
After responding to Toyota AI Ventures' call for smart-city innovations, YPC Technologies has raised funding to commercialize robot kitchens.
Physicists at Leiden University in the Netherlands have 3D printed the world’s smallest boat, a test object known as Benchy.
On October 15, 2020 Chinese workers relocated an old building in Shanghai using an innovative
The U.S. Army will soon operate robots able to destroy enemy armored vehicles with anti-tank missiles, surveil warzones under heavy enemy fire and beam back identified targeting details in seconds due to rapid progress with several new armed robot programs.
The Symani Surgical System just received government approval for wide use in Europe. It enables surgeons to perform some of the most difficult microsurgeries with fewer complications.
When it comes to methods of locomotion for robots, wheels are good for some things, while legs are better for others. Scientists are now working on a bot that combines the best of both worlds, with wheels that become legs.
There likely isn’t a robotics teacher institute in the world actively pursuing robotic learning. The field, after all, holds the key to unlocking a lot of potential for the industry. One of the things that makes it so remarkable is the myriad different approaches so many researchers are taking to un...
In the poultry industry, robots could be used to disinfect and measure temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and more.
European researchers have used robotic fish to show it it is up to 13.5 per cent more efficient for fish to swim in a group than alone, allowing them to save energy.
Today, you can buy a smartphone with a foldable display. Tomorrow you may wear a screen that can stretch
MIT looked at the original Roboat as “quarter-scale” option, with the Roboat II being half-scale; they’re slowly working up to the point of a full-scale option that can carry four to six passengers.
Multicopter drones are becoming increasingly useful, but their exposed whirling propellers can get damaged in collisions, and inflict injuries on bystanders. A new prototype drone addresses that problem, by copying the pufferfish.
A futuristic, dog-like robot was spotted at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Pripyat, Ukraine. According to multiple reports, on October 22, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was visited by the engineers
