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Kraken Sonar Systems gains funding for robotics project

Mar 22, 2017 (UPI)

Kraken Sonar Systems' underwater robotics program is receiving funding from the Canadian government's research organization. The monetary support is in the form...

'Tree-on-a-chip' passively pumps water for days

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature's hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the...

Origami-inspired Robot Can Hitch a Ride with a Rover

Mar 21, 2017 (JPL)

The next rovers to explore another planet might bring along a scout. The Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab...

Toward Machines that Improve with Experience

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Self-driving taxis. Cell phones that react appropriately to spoken requests. Computers that outcompete world-class chess and Go players. Artificial Intelligence...

Songs that make robots cry

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set of patterns almost mathematically to extract feelings from its audience. M...

Rafael completes test firing with Protector USV

Mar 08, 2017 (UPI)

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems completed a test firing demonstration using its Protector unmanned surface vehicle, or USV. During the demonstration, the vehicl...

DARPA robotic servicing program has become stalled

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

DARPA has been developing a program that will leverage successes in space robotics in order to accelerate in-orbit servicing of satellites. Of particular intere...

Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized wrenches, you'd probably pause and ask, "which one?" Robotics researchers from Br...

Shape-shifting molecular robots respond to DNA signals

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

A research group at Tohoku University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a molecular robot consisting of biomolecules, such as...

Switzerland taps Kongsberg for Protector weapon system

Mar 02, 2017 (UPI)

Norwegian company Kongsberg received a $15 million contract to deliver updated Protector remote weapon systems to the government of Switzerland. The weapon syst...

Tracking the movement of cyborg cockroaches

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

New research from North Carolina State University offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches - or biobots - move when exploring new spaces. Th...

Study: Even 'benevolent bots' fight, sometimes for years

Feb 23, 2017 (UPI)

An analysis of bot behavior over the course of a decades shows even "benevolent" bots bicker. In fact, researchers found evidence of bot-versus-bot fights lasti...

Scientists invent new, faster gait for six-legged robots

Feb 17, 2017 (UPI)

Robotics engineers often find their inspiration from nature. For six-legged robots, a nature-inspired gait proved an impediment to maximum speed. Researchers at...

Will androids dream of quantum sheep?

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi world where society has replaced common creatures with artificial machines that replicate their behaviour. Now ...

Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

I'll bet you don't have one of these at home. For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a c...

Success by deception

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

When computers independently identify bodies of water and their outlines in satellite images, or beat the world's best professional players at the board game Go...

How algorithms secretly run the world

Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)

When you browse online for a new pair of shoes, pick a movie to stream on Netflix or apply for a car loan, an algorithm likely has its word to say on the outcom...

Algorithms: the managers of our digital lives

Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)

Algorithms are a crucial cog in the mechanics of our digital world, but also a nosy minder of our personal lives and a subtle, even insidious influence on our b...

No sad endings for Japan's virtual romance fans

Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)

Japanese book editor Miho Takeshita is having an affair. But the recently married 30-year-old is not worried about getting caught -- her boyfriend only exists o...

DARPA Selects SSL as Commercial Partner for Revolutionary Goal of Servicing Satellites in GEO

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

In an important step toward a new era of advanced, cost-effective robotic capabilities in space, DARPA has announced that it has selected Space Systems Loral (S...