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Artificial heart to pump human waste into future robots
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
A new device capable of pumping human waste into the "engine room" of a self-sustaining robot has been created by a group of researchers from Bristol. Modelled ...
Gimball: A crash-happy flying robot
Nov 09, 2013 (SPX)
Gimball bumps into and ricochets off of obstacles, rather than avoiding them. This 34 centimeter in diameter spherical flying robot buzzes around the most unpre...
Advances promise prosthetic limbs that can emulate healthy ones
Nov 08, 2013 (UPI)
Recent technological advances promise artificial legs that emulate healthy limbs, mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville say. Lithium-ion ba...
Robots to help elderly or paint nails at Tokyo expo
Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)
Pneumatic muscle suits and a walking stick that behaves like a guide dog competed for attention with an industrial robot that can paint fingernails at a huge ex...
Japan's robot astronaut awaiting 'compatriot' spaceman
Nov 05, 2013 (AFP)
The world's first robot astronaut is pining for a conversation partner as he waits for Japanese spaceman Koichi Wakata aboard the International Space Station. "...
The Secret's in the (Robotic) Stroke
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
Recent studies from two research teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) demonstrate how underwater robots can be used to understan...
US unveils bionic man with 'Russian intellect'
Oct 28, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The world's first ever walking and talking bionic man has been unveiled in Washington. The robot owes its communicative skills to Artificial Intellect designed ...
Armed ground drones to take over battlefields in five years
Oct 23, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The United States Army is one-step closer to deploying weaponized robots to the front lines of battlefields following a recent demonstration that's being largel...
Michigan Tech Researchers Developing an Artificial Leg with a Natural Gait
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
Walking is tricky business, as any toddler knows. And while most artificial feet and limbs do a pretty good job restoring mobility to people who have lost a leg...
Robot challenge: unload a spacecraft
Oct 22, 2013 (ESA)
More than 50 students from five countries gathered at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands yesterday to unleash their robotic creations after six months pre...
Walking robots: it's all in the hips, say Japan researchers
Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)
Robot researchers in Japan have proved what entertainers from Elvis Presley to Miley Cyrus knew all along: the secret is in the hips. But where Elvis "The Pelvi...
'Biobots' may help map hidden, dangerous environments
Oct 17, 2013 (UPI)
A swarm of insect cyborgs, or "biobots," may one day allow the mapping of unknown and dangerous environments such as collapsed buildings, U.S. researchers say. ...
Research aims at prosthetic arms with natural-like touch
Oct 14, 2013 (UPI)
University of Chicago scientists say touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs may one day convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct brain interface....
Northrop Grumman's CaMEL to Participate in Robotic Armed Live Fire Demo
Oct 11, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has been selected to demonstrate its Carry-all Modular Equipment Landrover, called CaMEL, during the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence Ro...
Russia to launch first android robot to ISS
Oct 08, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
A robot, model SAR-400 android, is destined for the International Space Station (ISS) as helpmate for Russian cosmonauts aboard. Scientists have started testing...
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, "That can't be done...
Better robot vision
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision. But a robot that manipulates objects in the world needs to do more than just r...
Putting a face on a robot
Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)
What does the assistive robot of the future look like? It depends. A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have...
People prefer different robot faces depending on task assigned
Oct 01, 2013 (UPI)
People have varying opinions about what a personal robot should look like, and they change their minds based on what it is supposed to do, U.S. researchers say....
Robots take over
Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)
Recently, the global financial market experienced a series of computer glitches that abruptly brought operations to a halt. One reason for these "flash freezes"...
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