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'CRAB Lab' Sheds Light on Navigating Tricky Terrain

Hatchling loggerhead sea turtle

December 6th, 2013

How animals move in complex environments is a big question with relevance to several fields including robotics.

Monkey Avatar: Primates Move Virtual Arms with Their Mind | Video

November 6th, 2013

Virtual monkey avatar shown from a 3rd person perspective as the movements of the two arms are decoded in real-time from the brain of a rhesus monkey. The monkey sees the arms and 3D objects from a 1st person perspective.

Mullet Over: How Robotics Can Get a Wriggle on With Fishy Locomotion (Op-Ed)

Goldfish in bowl swimming, biomimetics

November 5th, 2013

Teaching a robot to walk – even poorly – requires huge investment into computational resources. How is it that even the simplest animals are able to achieve far more sophisticated feats of manoeuvrability?

Self-driving Cars and Autonomous Robots: Where to Now? (Op-Ed)

robot, ai, artificial intelligence

November 21st, 2013

While this might read like a scenario from a George Orwell novel, it is actually a reasonable step into the not-so-distant future of the next generation of robots.

Robot Cashier Learns to Handle Knives ... Safely

November 6th, 2013

A group of researchers at Cornell University teaching a robot how to properly and safely handle a variety of objects, from sharp knives to egg cartons, based on human feedback in a grocery-store scenario.

Beyond Terminator: Robots Deserve Ethical Treatment Too (Op-Ed)

Robots from Terminator movie

October 23rd, 2013

What is our relationship to robots and how do our attitudes toward them – whether that’s a pervading fear of the singularity or a fond affection – affect the sort of robots we create?

WildCat Robot Gallops in Video Debut

October 4th, 2013

Robot makers at Boston Dynamics have unveiled their latest military-funded creation: a four-legged machine called WildCat that bounds and gallops across the ground in an uncannily animal-like way.

Your Pee Could Power Future Robots

Researchers have found a way to turn urine into electric power that could drive a robot.

November 7th, 2013

A device that mimics the squeezing action of the human heart has been used to pump urine into a microbial fuel cell, which could power robots that convert the waste into electricity.

Cashier Robot Learns to Wield Knives | Video

Cashier Robot Learns to Wield Knives

November 6th, 2013

Researchers are training a cashier robot how to safely handle knives, tomatoes, egg cartons and other common items in a grocery store checkout.

Gun-Toting Robots May Fight Alongside Soldiers in Future Battles

Northrop Grumman's CaMEL Robot

October 21st, 2013

American soldiers may soon be joined on the battlefield by machine gun-toting robots on wheels, according to U.S. Army officials. The U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines have already experimented with prototype machines on the battlefield.