Spelunking Rover May Explore Mysterious Lunar Caverns
William Whittaker has been developing roving robots for years. By 2015, he hopes that his rover will explore some mysterious caves on the Moon. Three…
William Whittaker has been developing roving robots for years. By 2015, he hopes that his rover will explore some mysterious caves on the Moon. Three…
In order to showcase ultra-strong artificial muscles, Ray Baughman from the University of Texas at Dallas and his colleagues built a catapult. The scientists published…
Jumping is much more complicated that it might seem, at least for robots. A new study indicates that the range of future rescue and exploration…
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has begun and over the next two years teams will compete to develop and test hardware and software designed to…
Robots are set to enter operating theaters, albeit remotely controlled. InTouch Health Care is developing robots that will allow doctors to provide their expertise and…
A powered exoskeleton might help astronauts accomplish superhuman tasks in orbit. NASA’s new X1 robotic exoskeleton is a direct spinoff their space-borne Robonaut 2 project,…
Nanites and nano-scale robots have been found mostly in the realm of science fiction, but scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering are…
Early Saturday morning, an unmanned Air Force space plane landed by itself at a California military base, wrapping up a 15-month clandestine mission. The spacecraft…
Madagascar hissing cockroaches aren’t something pleasant to see, but if you’re trapped under a collapsed building, then cockroach biobots might help come to your rescue….
Typically, robotic hands have had trouble being dexterous enough and delicate enough to perform certain tasks, but robotics experts from Harvard University have been developing…
While the dream of fully autonomous cybernetic prosthetics might still be some time away, Sandia scientists have developed a robotic hand that has enough engineered…
Developed for DARPA, Boston Dynamics’ Cheetah robot broke a new speed record recently, and it’s capable of running at 28.3 mph (45.5 kph), on a…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT have genetically engineered muscle cells to flex in response to light, which may one day enable highly…
Researchers at Harvard University have developed a soft, walking robot for DARPA, which has the uncanny ability to camouflage itself within its environment. This system…
A product of collaboration between Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab and the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab, Shelly the self-driving Audi TTS hit track speeds of 120…
Modeled after an earthworm, Meshworm is a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body. Earthworms creep…
Scientists have taken a step forward on the path to engineering completely autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for minesweeping and other risky underwater missions. MIT engineers…
Using an algorithm to analyze data and identify safe zones, a team of scientists developed a new semiautonomous safety system that uses an onboard camera…