Collaborate Disseminate
Robot delivery has long been touted as a game-changing technology of the future. However, it still hasn’t cracked the big time. Drones still aren’t airdropping packages into our gutters by …read more Continue reading Your Next Airport Meal May Be Delivered By Robot
One ant is not very smart, but put a bunch of them together and they can achieve some remarkable things. Inspired by this emergent cooperative behavior, Harvard researchers have built robots that can work together to escape from a “prison,” without nee… Continue reading Ant-inspired robot swarm works together to bust out of jail
If you only watch the first 60 seconds of 1967’s “At Home, 2001,” you’ll be forgiven for thinking that the film is riddled with missed predictions. And to be sure, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: A 1960s Look at the 21st Century Home
The idea of sending robots into conditions that humans would not survive is a very old concept. Robot’s don’t heed oxygen, food, or any other myriad of human requirements. They …read more Continue reading The Robots Of Fukushima: Going Where No Human Has Gone Before (And Lived)
We’ve known for decades that billions of dollars’ worth of battery-relevant metals like copper, manganese, cobalt and nickel are literally sitting around on the seafloor out in the deep ocean, in giant fields of “polymetallic nodules” that look just li… Continue reading Impossible Metals demonstrates its super-careful seabed mining robot
Last year, Hong Kong’s MangDang gave programmers the chance to own a small hackable four-legged robot named the Mini Pupper, a kind of baby Spot. Now the team has returned to Kickstarter with a much-improved second generation robo-dog.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Mini Pupper 2 makes a bid to be your new hackable robo-dog pal
Why we love robot dogs, why the future of military robots have treads, and how to use lasers to bring down a drone. Continue reading CYBER: The Killer Robot Future Is Already Here
Clone Robotics is going to impressive lengths to make sure its “intelligent androids” will have some of the most human-like hands in the business, and watching the way their hydraulic “muscles” move under a transparent skin is absolutely hypnotic.Conti… Continue reading Clone gets deep into the uncanny valley with its lifelike robotic hand
Robot pets have been a sci-fi staple for decades, and in recent years we’ve seen a glut of them finally hit the market, with varying success. The latest is Loona, a quite advanced-looking bot with a lot of tricks up its sleeves and a personality straig… Continue reading Pet robot Loona looks straight out of a Disney movie
Scientific research is a messy business. The road to learning new things and making discoveries is paved with hard labor, tough thinking, and plenty of dead ends. It’s a time-consuming, …read more Continue reading Self-Driving Laboratories Do Research On Autopilot