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Drexel research helps bacteria-powered microrobots plot a course

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

The problem with having a microscopic robot propelled by a horde of tail-flailing bacteria is you never know where it's going to end up. The tiny, bio-robots, w...

Light illuminates the way for bio-bots

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

A new class of miniature biological robots, or bio-bots, has seen the light - and is following where the light shines. The bio-bots are powered by muscle cells ...

Domino's to trial robots for pizza delivery

Mar 18, 2016 (AFP)

Fast food giant Domino's is to trial pizza delivery robots in New Zealand, it said Friday, describing the hi-tech, driverless units as a world first. In a move ...

Less than meets the eye

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

We do not merely recognize objects - our brain is so good at this task that we can automatically supply the concept of a cup when shown a photo of a curved hand...

Hollywood robots: Movie machines may boost robot acceptance

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Remembering robots from film portrayals may help ease some of the anxiety that older adults have about using a robot, according to Penn State researchers. In a ...

Amputee feels texture with a bionic fingertip

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

An amputee was able to feel smoothness and roughness in real-time with an artificial fingertip that was surgically connected to nerves in his upper arm. Moreove...

Some assembly required to boost robot ratings

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

Robot makers may want to follow Ikea's strategy for customer satisfaction and give people a chance to partially assemble their new robots to ease acceptance of ...

Super elastic electroluminescent 'skin' will soon create mood robots

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine a health care robot that could display the patient's temperature and pulse, and even reacts to a patient's mood. It sounds futuristic, but a team of Cor...

Coming to a hotel near you: the robot humanoid receptionist

Mar 13, 2016 (AFP)

In a hotel not in a galaxy far, far away, a robot bids you welcome as you pull into the driveway. Another hands out the keycard to your room, and a third gives ...

Watch Google's AlphaGo computer take on world's best Go player

Mar 08, 2016 (UPI)

Artificial intelligence has dominated Jeopardy and bested chess masters. Now, computers are aiming to master Go, a 3,000-year-old abstract board game. On Tuesda...

In emergencies, should you trust a robot

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from a...

Engineered swarmbots rely on peers for survival

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Duke University researchers have engineered microbes that can't run away from home; those that do will quickly die without protective proteins produced by their...

Researchers unveil light-up, stretchable robot skin

Mar 04, 2016 (UPI)

New robotic "skin" developed by researchers at Cornell University can stretch up to six times its original size while still emitting light. The electroluminesce...

Japan 'robo' dogs eyed for quake rescue missions

Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)

Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried surviv...

Automatic programming makes swarm robots safer and more reliable

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from Sheffield Robotics have applied a novel method of automatically programming and controlling a swarm of up to 600 robots to complete a specified...

Microrobots learn from ciliates

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to these microorganisms. In spite of this, however, they are abl...

Facebook donates servers to speed up research into AI

Feb 25, 2016 (AFP)

Facebook announced Thursday it was donating computer servers to a number of research institutions across Europe, starting with Germany, to accelerate research e...

Underwater robots can be programmed to make independent decisions

Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)

More than 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, yet scientists know more about space than about what happens in the ocean. One way scientists a...

Boston Dynamics robot learns from being bullied

Feb 24, 2016 (UPI)

Engineers at Google-owned Boston Dynamics have put their Atlas humanoid robot through a boot camp of bullying -- pushing, shoving, tripping. But as a number of ...

Help NASA Create Better Vision for Robonaut

Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)

Humans use glasses to help them see better, but for robots, the fix is in their code. NASA is asking coders to create algorithms for Robonaut 2, or R2, that wil...