LONDON - Two UK universities have opened the largest
robotics laboratory in Europe as the UK government announced a £16M ($25 million) boost for research.The Bristol
robotics Lab is a partnership ...
PORTLAND, Ore. --
robots enabled the human genome to be mapped in just over 12 years, but it took less than four years for the Paul Allen--Microsoft co-counder--Brain Atlas to be completed last month ...
McAfee talks angry
robots and rotten apples at Design West
Micrium, TI launch TCP/IP book with
robotics examples
Texas Instruments has announced a partnership with i
robot Corp to develop
robotics technology based on the TI OMAP application processors.
NASA said it has successfully demonstrated the ability to repair satellites in orbit using
robotic tools.
Like something straight out of “Star Wars,” armies of
robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don&#821
Probing the largely unexplored question of what characteristics make a leader among schooling fish, researchers have discovered that by mimicking nature, a
robotic fish can transform into a leader of
ABB, RMIT University and the ABB Corporate Research Centre will establish a new Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering (AICAUSE).
A
robot helping in the household no longer is a dream of the future. ARMAR, the humanoid
robot, can understand commands and execute them independently. For instance, it gets the milk out of the fridge
LONDON – YouTube has a video that shows the results of a number of "tug-of-war" matches between MEMS electrothermal actuators belonging to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ...
LONDON – YouTube has a video that shows the results of a number of "tug-of-war" matches between MEMS electrothermal actuators belonging to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ...
ELEMENT14’s online poll of its global electronics community has revealed interesting trends about the future of electronics design engineering.
Researchers are bringing the latest technological advancements in 3-D printing to the study of ancient life. Using scale models of real fossils, for the first time, they will be able to test hypothese
RFID tags are becoming ubiquitous, shops, warehouses, libraries and others use them for stock and inventory control and to reduce the risk of theft. Now, a team in Dubai has developed the concept of a
A new
robotic device made from DNA could potentially seek out specific cell targets and deliver important molecular instructions, such as telling cancer cells to self-destruct. Inspired by the mechani
An industrial
robot as artist? A painter made of metal really can sketch faces. Its artistic genius only emerges if someone takes a seat on the model’s stool positioned in front of the
robot
Mobile
robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers have
The electrostatic motor, used more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin to rotisserie a turkey, is making a comeback in a promising new design for motors that is light, soft, and operates without e
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of
robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers, the ingenious layering and folding proces
Automation and
robotics has been a great help in any type of industry that requires efficiency at its finest.
By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, researchers hope to help build small airborne
robots that can mimic those maneuvers.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Fujitsu’s corporate labs demoed a sampler of its latest work in everything from world-class supercomputers to smartphones—and even a
robotic teddy bear—at an annual North America ...
The northern goshawk is one of nature's diehard thrill-seekers. The formidable raptor preys on birds and small mammals, speeding through tree canopies and underbrush to catch its quarry. While speed i
SAN FRANCISCO--Even
robots at CES were letting tablets get to their heads, especially i
robot’s AVA, whose swivel head, perched atop its articulating torso and holonomic base, was an iPad.AVA, who toot ...
Sphero's
robotic smart balls roll the CES showfloor
SWINBURNE University of Technology is hosting a Mini Maker Faire on 14 January 2012, the first event of its type in Australia.
RESEARCHERS at Case Western Reserve University have implanted a biofuel cell in an insect, converting the bug’s internal chemicals into electricity.
COMMERCIALISATION of RFID technologies will be boosted in Geelong, along with a number of other ICT initiatives, to the tune of $100,000.
A new study of how lizards use their tails when leaping through the trees shows that they swing the tail upward to avoid pitching forward after a stumble. Theropod dinosaurs -- the ancestors of birds
COMMERCIALISATION of RFID technologies will be boosted in Geelong, along with a number of other ICT initiatives, to the tune of $100,000.
In the world of engineering, “noise” – random fluctuations from environmental sources such as heat – is generally a bad thing. In electronic circuits, it is una
Model by model, the electronics in a car are being moved closer to the engine block. This is why the materials used for the electronics must resist increasing heat – so the glass solder bein
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Though 3-D printing has generated a lot of buzz and interest in the industry, the lack of widely available equipment has made the process inaccessible to most regular would-be c ...
Sludge transformed into electricity using solar power,
robots
PORTLAND, Ore. &#151 A second-generation self-tuning
robot Guitar was recently announced by Gibson Guitar Corp. (Nashville, Tenn.). Two new models are available--a Les Paul Studio Ltd. and an SG S ...
FOXCONN mother company Hon Hai Precision Industry has confirmed it will build an intelligent
robotics and automation equipment manufacturing hub in Taiwan.
THE MINISTER for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr has announced more than $310 million in funding for over 1000 research projects.
The parent company of Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn plans to mass produce industrial
robots as part of its efforts to cope with labour shortages and rising wages.
(PhysOrg.com) -- News made developer rounds last month of Microsoft's Eddie, the reference
robot grounded in Microsoft’s
robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta. Described as a freely available .NET-bas
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mohsen Shahinpoor, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine has created a
robot version of the infamous bug eating Venus Flytrap, using a material he invented
David DeSteno, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern, and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, are examining how social
robots can ai
(PhysOrg.com) -- A six-legged, 25 gram
robot has been fitted with flapping wings in order to gain an insight into the evolution of early birds and insects.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes -- natural disasters always catch us by surprise, no matter how many early warning systems are in place. This makes it all the more important for rescue teams to get
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week some oohs and ahhs were in order as two ping-pong playing
robots made their debut at Zhejiang University in China. The two
robots played against each other and with humans.
(PhysOrg.com) -- You've seen
robots in the form of alpha dogs and insect swarms capable of military deployments but the next wave of
robotics also includes a special breed of 'sociable'
robots for use
robots for everyone. That's James McLurkin's dream, and as the director of a Rice University
robotics lab, he's creating an inexpensive and sophisticated
robot called the 'R-one' to make the dream a r
robots that learn from experience and can solve novel problems -- just like humans -- sound like science fiction.
(PhysOrg.com) -- By being the first to scout out an unknown building or peek over a wall, a small dumbbell-shaped
robot will be taking over some of the riskiest tasks in the US Army. The
robot’s
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working in
robotics know that nature holds the best ideas for making
robots that can perform with speed, agility, and efficiency. At University of California, Berkeley, the