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Robot cheerleading squad showcases sensor technology
Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)
A team of cheerleading robots made their dancing debut in Tokyo on Thursday as creator Murata Manufacturing demonstrated its cutting-edge sensor technology. Wit...
Soft robotics 'toolkit' features everything a robot-maker needs
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
A new resource unveiled by researchers from several Harvard University labs in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin provides both experienced and aspiring ...
Fingertip sensor gives robot unprecedented dexterity
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT and Northeastern University have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable draped freely over a hook and in...
Cutting the cord on soft robots
Sep 15, 2014 (SPX)
When it comes to soft robots, researchers have finally managed to cut the cord. Developers from Harvard's School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wy...
iRobot supplying its PackBots to Canada
Sep 09, 2014 (UPI)
Nearly two dozen robotic reconnoitering systems are to be provided to the Canadian Department of National Defense by Massachusetts-headquartered iRobot Corp. Th...
Watch MIT's Atlas robot carry heavy objects
Sep 08, 2014 (UPI)
A robot that can carry objects of different weights in each of its hands could be valuable to industries like construction, warehouse work and much more. Resear...
DARPA issues RFI for robotic space services for satellites
Sep 04, 2014 (UPI)
The U.S. military is looking for space robotic services for critical satellites in geostationary Earth orbit. Satellites currently in geostationary orbit -- 22,...
Magal introducing RoboGuard security system in Israel
Sep 03, 2014 (UPI)
A sensor system that travels a monorail attached to a perimeter fence for surveillance has been introduced by Magal Security Systems Ltd. The Israeli company sa...
Robonaut Gets New Legs as Trio Prepares for Homecoming
Aug 29, 2014 (SPX)
Expedition 40 participated in health checks, Robonaut upgrades and Soyuz emergency drills Wednesday. The International Space Station also boosted its orbit sett...
'Robo Brain' will teach robots everything from the Internet
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
Robo Brain - a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources - is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion...
A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
The first thousand-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University. "Form a sea star shape," directs a computer scientist, sending the command to 1,024 litt...
Hitchhiking robot reaches journey's end in Canada
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
A chatty robot with an LED-lit smiley face sent hitchhiking across Canada this summer as part of a social experiment reached its final destination Thursday afte...
Russia's First Exoskeleton to Help Physically Impaired
Aug 19, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
A team of Russian exoskeleton designers said Monday they were looking for disabled patients who would agree to volunteer for human tests in the country's unique...
Exoskeleton technology set for Navy testing and evaluation
Aug 19, 2014 (UPI)
Exoskeltons from Lockheed Martin that boost a person's strength and endurance are to be tested and evaluated for industrial use by the U.S. Navy. The contract w...
'Flashmob' robots swarm themselves into shape
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
Without any helping hand, more than 1,000 simple robots the size of votive candles can swarm themselves into complex shape like a star or the letter K, US resea...
Robo-cook: android restaurant boots up in China
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
It's more teatime than Terminator -- a restaurant in China is electrifying customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and deliver food. Mechanical staf...
Small, origami-inspired pop-up robots function autonomously
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
Inspired by the traditional Japanese art form of Origami or "folding paper," researchers have developed a way to coax flat sheets of composite materials to self...
Robots inspired by origami can fold selves, walk away
Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)
It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like origami art. And then it crawls a...
Robots to up-end the world of work, for good and bad
Aug 06, 2014 (AFP)
Robots and artificially intelligent devices will take over many jobs now done by people, and experts are divided as to whether their spread will do human societ...
Hitchhiking robot thumbs its way across Canada
Aug 01, 2014 (AFP)
A talking robot assembled from household odds and ends is hitchhiking thousands of kilometers across Canada this summer as part of a social experiment to see if...
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