The successful demonstration of remote-controlled "drones-bees" by Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has been making news since Tuesday. But the buzz surrounding the drone’s applications could be much hyped, according to at least two independent estimates by biologists.
Researchers at the University of Washington have been developing a way for 3D-printed plastic objects to transmit data without the need for embedded batterie
Robots can improve employees' health and safety by sensing potential dangers and taking over the riskiest tasks. Here's how.
Mochibot is out to prove that there's no such thing as too many legs
According to data from Cleveland Clinic, 21 people in the US die waiting for an organ every day, however Swedish startup Cellink has managed to find a way to 3D print tissues and organs — from skin and ears to liver and cancer, the company uses a basic 3D printer to produce new organs and tissues.
I’ve never been able to quite figure out why I hate snakes, but my disdain of slithering serpents extends to the robot variety as well. I’m sure part of it comes from the way they wriggle and writhe to get around; it just freaks me out. But at the same time, I’m also impressed that robotics research...
The 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act brings a new regime for recreational flyers
Most humans take a year to learn their first steps, and they are notoriously clumsy. [Hartvik Line] taught a robotic cat to walk [YouTube link] in less time, but this cat had a couple advantages ove
At Jason Poel Smith’s local pediatrician’s office, they have a variety of movie posters and displays to help make the environment more welcoming to kids. The most popular of them all is a huge inflatable Baymax robot character from the Disney movie Big Hero 6. While a beautiful display, Smith de
A survey conducted at the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence shows that 37% of respondents believe human-like artificial intelligence will be achieved within five to 10 years.
Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.
Look what has just flown out of Disney Research's workshop. It's an autonomous spray-painting drone that can apply colorful designs to 3D objects as well as flat surfaces. The PaintCopter, as Disney is calling it, offers "accurate and fast painting results" and could be useful in industrial settings...
The sex robot community—the people who make the sex robots, and the people who want to have sex with the sex robots—suffered a blow this past week, when the Houston City Council voted to preemptively ban what would’ve been the first sex robot “brothel” in the U.S. But even those council members must...
Remote-controlled robot arms allow submersible operators to perform tasks underwater. But can you imagine a rigid metal limb interacting with something a
When you send something to space, it's good to have redundancy. Sometimes you want to send two whole duplicate spacecraft just in case — as was the case with Voyager — but sometimes it's good enough to have two of critical components. Mars Rover Curiosity is no exception, and it is now in the proce…
MobiLimb is a project by Marc Teyssier and a research team from two French universities. The robotic finger attachment plugs in through the smartphone’s Micro USB port to respond to phone notifications, and it can be used as a tail, stand, or joystick.
By translating a key human physical skill, whole-body balance, into an equation, engineers used the numerical formula to program their robot Mercury.
Deep learning is helping to make prosthetic arms behave more naturally.
Robotics investments in August totaled at least $921.13 million. The bulk of investments ($698.13 million) were made into self-driving vehicle companies.
In the past, early adopters embraced inanimate technology, like smartphones. But what happens when transhumanism stops being sci-fi conjecture and goes mainstream? Will we be so ready to upgrade ourselves?
UC Berkeley's robotic pogo stick can bounce its way up and over obstacles
Queen Elizabeth I is widely thought to have carefully controlled her image. She would sit for portraits only until her face was drawn, which she woul
Rethink Robotics, the Boston, Mass.-based maker of collaborative robots Baxter and Sawyer, shut its doors. Rethink was founded in 2008 by Rodney Brooks
Japan’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 deployed its third robot onto the surface of an asteroid named Ryugu more than 186 million miles from Earth. This time, the robotic explorer is a tiny, box-shaped lander crafted by Germany and France’s space agencies, dubbed MASCOT.
