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Engineered robot interacts with live fish
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots. Results published in IOP Publishing...
Robotics helps us become more competitive
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
Robotics is an area of research that can help us to innovate and become more competitive in the international marketplace. This was one of the conclusions of Ro...
Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonom...
Graphene-control cutting using an atomic force microscope-based nanorobot
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
Graphene, a stable two-dimensional structure, has attracted tremendous worldwide attention in recent years because of its unique electronic, physical and mechan...
DLR presents innovations in robotics at AUTOMATICA 2012
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
The Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC) at the German Aerospace Center is exhibiting at AUTOMATICA, the leading international exhibition for automation and m...
Rescue robot tested at So. Calif. beach
May 25, 2012 (UPI)
Lifeguards in Los Angeles County say they've tested a robot rescue craft that could save struggling swimmers. Officials of the Los Angeles County Fire Departmen...
Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE 'smart machine' developed at Sandia Labs
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more effic...
Paralyzed individuals use thought-controlled robotic arm to reach and grasp
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
In an ongoing clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own - for the first time in nearly 15 years - by using her tho...
People with paralysis control robotic arms to reach and grasp using brain computer interface
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
On April 12, 2011, nearly fifteen years after she became paralyzed and unable to speak, a woman controlled a robotic arm by thinking about moving her arm and ha...
Paralysed woman's thoughts control a DLR robot
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Almost 15 years after being paralysed by a stroke, a 58-year-old US-American woman was once again able to serve herself a drink of coffee. This was possible tha...
Japan firm unveils gesture controlling device
May 16, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese technology titan NEC has unveiled a gadget that allows users to control their TV, mobile phone or tablet computer using a virtual input device. The com...
NASA Robot Competition Rolls Onto WPI Campus June 14-17
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will compete for a NASA prize purse of $1.5 million on the campus of Worcester Polyte...
Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover
May 08, 2012 (ESA)
Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be...
Japan's Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleaner
May 08, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Tuesday it had created a robot vacuum cleaner capable of recognising and responding to simple voice commands in several la...
Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even...
Game-powered machine learning opens door to Google for music
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San D...
New brain-machine interface moves a paralyzed hand
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
A new Northwestern Medicine brain-machine technology delivers messages from the brain directly to the muscles - bypassing the spinal cord - to enable voluntary ...
Scientist unveils mind-controlled robot for paraplegics
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, n...
Computer scoring of student work debated
Apr 24, 2012 (UPI)
Computers may someday help teachers grade their students' essays, and can provide results that mirror human scores, some U.S. educators say. A wide-ranging stud...
Robots guard S. Korea prison inmates
Apr 18, 2012 (UPI)
South Korea has begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards by deploying them in an actual prison in Pohang, officials said. The robots' init...
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