 Simplicity may be key to robotic self-reproduction June 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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“Self-reproduction is one of the remarkable feats of biological systems which has remained largely outside the scope of capabilities of traditional engineered systems,” explains Victor Zykov and his colleagues ... | |
Students cut grass with robotic-controlled mower May 31, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Cutting the lawn has taken on significant importance for a group of Wright State University students. The 11-member team is entered in the Fourth Annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Lawnmower Competition hosted ... | |
Send in the robots -- Robot teams handle hazardous jobs May 02, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Searching buildings for weapons of mass destruction and supply routes for improvised bombs are extremely dangerous but important jobs. That's why Scott DeLoach is working to create robots and robot teams to handle these and ... | |
 Assistive robot adapts to people, new places April 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores--cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes. | |
 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 ... | |
 Robot Salamander May Give Evolution Clues March 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to simple ... | |
 Enter 'Junior': Stanford team's next-generation robot joins DARPA Challenge February 28, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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When five autonomous vehicles, including the Stanford Racing Team's winning entry "Stanley," finished the 2005 Grand Challenge in the still Nevada desert, they passed a milestone of artificial intelligence. ... | |
 NASA's robotic sub readies for dive into Earth's deepest sinkhole February 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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An underwater robot, shaped like a flattened orange, maneuvered untethered and autonomously within a 115-meter-deep sinkhole during tests this month in Mexico, a prelude to its mission to probe the mysterious ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
Electronic nurses January 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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It may not be long before swarms of tiny mobile robots will be giving a hand to the nurses and medical orderlies in hospitals. | |
Robotic crawler detects wear in power lines December 22, 2006 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound. To your right runs a cable that looks identical, but damaged insulation means the cable is vulnerable to a short. Can you tell the difference? | |
 NC State Unveils New DARPA Urban Challenge Driverless Vehicle November 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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In a race that can only be described as futuristic, the Insight Racing team will field a driverless Lotus Elise to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The team will modify the sports car with sensors ... | |
 Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury November 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 213 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 ... | |
 Robotic Boat Geared to Simplify Life for Scientists November 02, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Though it looks like a miniature yellow catamaran, a craft designed by professors and students at Rowan University is not your father’s toy boat. | |
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