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How social cues influence human-robot interaction
Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)
Robots are increasingly being considered for use in highly tense civilian encounters to minimize person-to-person contact and danger to peacekeeping personnel. ...
Marines send robotic dog into simulated combat
Sep 21, 2015 (UPI)
Over the last several days week, Spot, a robot dog designed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics, has been put to the test. The four-legged robot served as a militar...
Marines experiment with robot capabilities
Sep 18, 2015 (UPI)
A quadruped prototype robot has demonstrated its field capabilities in weeklong testing by the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. The testing of the 160-...
Neurotechnology Provides Near-Natural Sense of Touch
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
A 28-year-old who has been paralyzed for more than a decade as a result of a spinal cord injury has become the first person to be able to "feel" physical sensat...
US military develops prosthetic hand that can 'feel'
Sep 14, 2015 (AFP)
Researchers fitted a man who has been paralyzed for more than a decade with an experimental prosthetic hand that lets him "feel" sensations, the US military's f...
Canada Dominates European Rover Challenge 2015
Sep 10, 2015 (SPX)
Canadian teams have dominated the second edition of the biggest European competition for Mars rovers that took place on Sept. 5-6 at the Regional Science-Techno...
For these 'cyborgs', keys are so yesterday
Sep 04, 2015 (AFP)
Punching in security codes to deactivate the alarm at his store became a thing of the past for Jowan Oesterlund when he implanted a chip into his hand about 18 ...
'Hedgehog' Robots Hop, Tumble in Microgravity
Sep 04, 2015 (JPL)
Hopping, tumbling and flipping over are not typical maneuvers you would expect from a spacecraft exploring other worlds. Traditional Mars rovers, for example, r...
Australian scientists sending robot after destructive starfish
Sep 03, 2015 (UPI)
Scientists say the invasion of the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is responsible for as much as 40 percent of the decline in coral cover among Australia's Gree...
A house that runs itself? Samsung believes it's about time
Sep 03, 2015 (AFP)
Imagine the alarm clock ringing on a typical Monday morning, except this time the curtains draw themselves back, the bathroom lights switch on automatically and...
Navy gives continued development approval for EOD robot
Aug 28, 2015 (UPI)
A tactical explosive ordinance disposal robot being developed by the U.S. Navy has gotten Milestone B approval to enter an engineering and manufacturing phase. ...
Biophysicists take small step in quest for 'robot scientist'
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Biophysicists have taken another small step forward in the quest for an automated method to infer models describing a system's dynamics - a so-called robot scie...
Smooth robot movements reduce energy consumption by up to 40 percent
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
By minimizing the acceleration of industrial robots, energy consumption can be reduced by up to 40 percent - while retaining the given production time. This is ...
Navy orders HazMat robots
Aug 20, 2015 (UPI)
iRobot reports it is to deliver an undisclosed number of 110 FirstLook robots to the U.S. Navy for the investigation and manipulation of hazardous materials. Th...
A brain-computer interface for controlling an exoskeleton
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists working at Korea University, Korea, and TU Berlin, Germany have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding...
Russia to Send First Ever Robot-Cosmonaut to ISS
Aug 18, 2015 (Sputnik)
A team of experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute are working on the prototype of a robot cosmonaut to help ISS crews during spacew...
Controlling the uncontrollable
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
Instability in engineering is generally not a good thing. If you're building a skyscraper, minor instabilities could bring the whole structure crashing down in ...
MIT engineers build, test bartending robots that work together
Aug 12, 2015 (UPI)
Engineers at MIT have designed a team of robots capable of working together to pour and deliver beers to thirsty humans. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science a...
IBM acquires medical imaging firm to help Watson 'see'
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
IBM said Thursday it was boosting the capacity of its Watson supercomputer, acquiring the medical imaging group Merge Healthcare for $1 billon. The new group wi...
Robotic insect mimics Nature's extreme moves
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
The concept of walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage water's surface ten...
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