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Subterranean Challenge Identifies Urban Circuit Location, Updates Prize Amounts
Nov 14, 2019 (SPX)
Systems competitors from around the world will field their robot teams to find as many artifacts as possible in complex underground settings. Prizes of $500,000...
Army researcher promotes cooperation between humans, autonomous machines
Nov 14, 2019 (SPX)
Dr. Celso M. de Melo, a computer scientist from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory at its ARL West campus in Playa...
Chinese researchers design novel flying robot
Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)
No, but Chinese researchers at the Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have designed a promising alternative. Recently, th...
Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to 'grow' like a plant
Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)
Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible enough to twist and turn in any necessary configuration, yet rigid e...
Robots 'not evil' says Boston Dynamics as humanoids go viral
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
Not so, says their creator Marc Raibert in an interview with AFP at the Lisbon Web Summit, claiming that the Spot robots aren't evil and won't be turned into we...
On the way to intelligent microrobots
Nov 07, 2019 (SPX)
The robot, which measures only a few micrometres across, is reminiscent of a paper bird made with origami - the Japanese art of paper folding. But, unlike a pap...
New soft-muscled RoboBee is accident proof
Nov 04, 2019 (UPI)
"There has been a big push in the field of microrobotics to make mobile robots out of soft actuators because they are so resilient," Yufeng Chen, a former gradu...
Teams Complete SubT Challenge Virtual Tunnel Circuit
Nov 01, 2019 (SPX)
DARPA-funded and self-funded teams compete side-by-side throughout the Subterranean Challenge. Only self-funded teams are eligible for prizes in the Circuit Eve...
Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)
Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged robots and their ability to run, jump and even do backflips. But getting two-legged, humanoid robots t...
Human reflexes keep two-legged robot upright
Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)
Engineers from the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a step closer to human-operated robotics with their two-legged unit,...
Robot acquires new, essential spacewalking functions says cosmonaut
Oct 25, 2019 (Sputnik)
Speaking at a presentation as part of the annual International Astronautical Congress in Washington, Kud-Sverchkov said that ground experiments and simulations ...
New lightweight, portable robotic suit to increase running and walking performance
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
Many researchers have pondered over this problem over the years, developing a number of external devices that, once worn by users, allow them to move, walk, and...
Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
But what if the final assembly was the only assembly, with the whole plane built out of a large array of tiny identical pieces, all put together by an army of t...
Researchers build a soft robot with neurologic capabilities
Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)
Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, said the work represents a significant step toward the dev...
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations
Oct 13, 2019 (AFP)
Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue -- even if a universal co...
Army bio-inspired theoretical research may make robots more effective on the future battlefield
Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)
Bionanomotors, like myosins that move along actin networks, are responsible for most methods of motion in all life forms. Thus, the development of artificial na...
Vietnamese roll out Transformers-inspired robot with green message
Oct 04, 2019 (AFP)
"Hello everyone ... I am from Vietnam," the hulking Robot One says as it swivels side to side in a Hanoi workshop. A team of IT programmers and students say the...
Controlling robots across oceans and space
Oct 04, 2019 (ESA)
Imagine looking down at the Moon from the Gateway as you prepare to land near a lunar base to run experiments, but you know the base needs maintenance work on t...
NASA designing shapeshifting robots for Saturn's moons
Sep 26, 2019 (JPL)
In a dusty robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Shapeshifter team is testing a 3D-printed prototype of this unusual ex...
Fedor a first step to future of teams of robot cosmonauts
Sep 25, 2019 (Sputnik)
The Fedor robot is likely to be just the first step to a whole army of Russian robot cosmonauts sent to space to carry out a wide array of missions, Yevgeny Dud...
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