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LS3 Four-Legged Robot Plays Follow the Leader
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
For the past two weeks, in the woods of central Virginia around Fort Pickett, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) four-legged robot has been showing off its c...
Crew Prepares for Student Robotics Competition
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
The Expedition 34 crew wrapped up its first workweek of the new year aboard the International Space Station with scientific research, routine maintenance and pr...
Explore Your Curiosity with New Rover-Themed Badge on Foursquare
Dec 31, 2012 (SPX)
NASA and the mobile application Foursquare have teamed up to help you unlock your scientific curiosity with a new rover-themed Curiosity Explorer badge. Users o...
Smart SPHERES Fly High Aboard the International Space Station
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
On Dec. 12 engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and Johnson Space Center in Houston conducted an experiment using small, free-flying...
DARPA developing robotic mule
Dec 21, 2012 (UPI)
The use of robotics and similar technology has added a new dimension to the battlefield for all fighting forces, but the U.S. military in particular. Fixed-wing...
Flexing fingers for micro-robotics: Berkeley Lab scientists create a powerful, microscale actuator
Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have dev...
CU-Boulder team develops swarm of pingpong ball-sized robots
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much mor...
Head-mounted cameras could help robots understand social interactions
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
What is everyone looking at? It's a common question in social settings because the answer identifies something of interest, or helps delineate social groupings....
Research: Tiny robots may think as a group
Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)
A U.S. researcher says a swarm of tiny robots could be a better solution to accomplishing tasks than one big one and has made "ping-pong" ball-sized examples. U...
Custom robots could do Fukushima cleanup
Dec 11, 2012 (UPI)
Japanese company Mitsubishi has unveiled a radiation-resistant robot it says can help clean up the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. It joins other compan...
Swimming robot crosses Pacific Ocean
Dec 05, 2012 (UPI)
An autonomous swimming robot has successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Australia, its manufacturer says. Liquid Robotics in Sunnyvale, Ca...
Squirrels and Birds Inspire Researchers to Create Deceptive Robots
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive ea...
Engineering professor looks to whirligig beetle for bio inspired robots
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
Whirligig beetles are named for their whirling movement on top of water, moving rapidly in and taking off into flight. While many may have found the movements c...
Robot buddy to keep Japan astronaut company
Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)
A small humanoid robot that can talk will be sent into space to provide conversational company for a Japanese astronaut on a six-month mission, according to new...
Study of risks to humankind proposed
Nov 26, 2012 (UPI)
British researchers say they want to create a Center for the Study of Existential Risk to analyze the ultimate risks to the future of mankind. The purpose of th...
Robotic Fish Research Swims into New Ethorobotics Waters
Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have published findings that further illuminate the emerging field of ethorobotics - ...
Toshiba unveils dog-like robot for Fukushima plant
Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese nuclear reactor maker Toshiba on Wednesday unveiled a remote-controlled robot resembling a headless dog that they hope will be used at the battered Fuk...
Ban 'killer robots,' rights group urges
Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)
Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start depl...
Britain says no calculators for math tests
Nov 09, 2012 (UPI)
The British government says 11-year-old students taking primary school math tests will be banned from using calculators beginning in 2014. Education and Childca...
Off to the Future with a new Soccer Robot
Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)
Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitat...
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