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A dog has shown how it can deploy a snake robot near disaster victims by simply barking.
MorpHex starts out looking like a spherical ball and then expands into a sex-legged walking machine.
Toyota is developing technology to help elderly and paralyzed patients walk.
To resist wear and tear, scientists start making nanobots out of diamond.
Researchers have made a robot run like a human, the height of agility for a two-legged machine.
Clifford Nass investigates how to make rescue robots more "user-friendly"
Clifford Nass investigates how to make rescue robots more “user-friendly.”
Researchers are developing a robot language, which follows rules similar to human language, to enable them to communicate with each other and learn about the world around them.
Linguist Jeff Heinz and mechanical engineer Bert Tanner are teaching robots about cooperative behavior, by observing how children learn to communicate and how adults learn new languages.
Modern archaeologists get robots instead of bullwhips.
Much has changed in archaeology since Indy fought Nazis with bullwhip in hand.
Sexting with a robot doesn't make cheating any less dirty.
The Precision Urban Hopper robot, designed for urban combat situations, can hop 25 feet to clear fences and other object.
A robot has learned to associate likes and dislikes with a particular color in its environment.
The Neuromorphics Lab at CELEST is building artificial brains to be used in robotics
Researchers have designed a robotic snake capable of uniquely traversing its environment
The rolling droid could perform search-and-rescue functions after natural disasters.
Researchers are getting better at synthesizing the nuances of the human voice.