 Robot walks on water July 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 129 vote(s)
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Water striders, insects that walk on the surface of the water, may never set foot on land in their lives, and yet they’re not swimmers. Over the past million or so years, this insect—sometimes called a water ... | |
 Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle April 29, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 138 vote(s)
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Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute is unveiling a unique unmanned ground vehicle that offers new strength, mobility ... | |
 Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury November 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 212 vote(s)
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a ... | |
 Dutch robot Flame walks like a human May 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides ... | |
 Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress February 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 103 vote(s)
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Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other ... | |
 In 2050, your lover may be a ... robot June 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Romantic human-robot relationships are no longer the stuff of science fiction -- researchers expect them to become reality within four decades. And they do not mean simply, mechanical sex. | |
Robot carries out operation by itself May 19, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
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For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself. | |
 Robot builds itself for special tasks February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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In one of the latest studies on autonomous robots, scientists sat back and watched as their robot created itself out of smaller robotic modules. The result, called “swarm-bot,” comes in many varieties, depending ... | |
 When robots learn social skills June 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could ... | |
 Researchers develop mobile robot that balances, moves on ball instead of wheels or legs August 09, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that ... | |
 Solar Plane to Fly Continuously Around Mars March 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Sky-Sailor, the working dream of a solar-powered, autonomously-controlled microairplane, has exciting implications in two areas: one on the technological advances of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs); and ... | |
 ATR, Honda Develop New Brain-Machine Interface May 24, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 81 vote(s)
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Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Honda Research Institute Japan Co. (HRI) have collaboratively developed a new “Brain Machine Interface” (BMI) for manipulating robots using ... | |
 South Korea creates female android May 04, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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South Korean scientists say they have created the world's second android -- a female named EveR-1. | |
 Jumping robots take clues from nature July 06, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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A group of mechanical engineers from the University of Bath has a peculiar interest in flying squirrels, fleas, and grasshoppers. Inspired by animals considered to be excellent jumpers, the researchers have ... | |
 With Mini in vivo Robots, Anyone Can do Surgery February 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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By attaching a millimeter-sized camera robot to a tether, scientists have designed a way to allow individuals with non-medical backgrounds to perform minimally invasive surgery in almost any location. Unlike ... | |
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