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• Strokable robot rabbit talks with touch

  A pet robot that communicates with humans only by touch is being used to probe the way the oft-neglected sense bolsters our emotional relationships. The findings could be used to make humans' relationships with robots and other pieces of technology Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 5:05 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Haptic interfaces, robot pets

• New Robot Walks Like A Human

  Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft (The Netherlands) 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 insight into how people walk. Read More...
  Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:11 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics

• 'Grasshopper' robot sets high-jump record

  Taking its inspiration from the grasshopper, a tiny two-legged robot that stores elastic energy in springs has leaped 27 times its own height, smashing the record of 17 times set by a previous robot. Its creators hope that swarms of such hopping robots Read More...
  Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:47 AM by clementlawyer / 1 Comments

  Tags: Robotics

• Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision

  Researchers from the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, and the University of Wyoming have developed a fiber optic sensor inspired by the compound eye of the common housefly, Musca domestica . One of the biggest advantages of the design Read More...
  Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 2:54 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, fruit flies

• Prepping Robots to Perform Surgery

  WHAT do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:00 AM by clementlawyer / 1 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots, Robotic surgery, Medical robotics

• Meet the Nubot: DNA nanotechnology robots

  Aharia Nair brings to our attention the new term Nubot, for Nucleic Acid Robots. Wikipedia explains: Nubot is an abbreviation for “Nucleic Acid Robots.” Nubots are synthetic robotics devices at the nanoscale. Representative nubots include the several Read more
  Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 12:11 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Open Source, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Robotics, Computational nanotechnology

• Meet the Nubot: DNA nanotechnology robots

  Aharia Nair brings to our attention the new term Nubot, for Nucleic Acid Robots. Wikipedia explains: Nubot is an abbreviation for “Nucleic Acid Robots.” Nubots are synthetic robotics devices at the nanoscale. Representative nubots include the several Read more
  Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 12:11 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Open Source, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Robotics, Computational nanotechnology

• 'Guessing' robots navigate faster

  Robots that use educated guesswork to build maps of their surroundings are being tested by Purdue University researchers. The approach could let them navigate more easily through complex environments such as unfamiliar buildings.... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:44 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots

• Nanotechnology frontier meets space frontier

  For a visionary look at space applications of nanotech, see a new column over at Nanotechnology Now. An excerpt: Occasionally astronauts have to leave their spaceships, so researchers at Northeastern University and Rutgers University propose that we protect Read more
  Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 7:27 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Robotics, Space

• Propellers for Microrobots

  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Researchers have developed a novel form of propulsion for microrobots that mimics the way bacteria zip about using corkscrew-like appendages called flagella. Tests show that the tiny rotating nanocoils--just ... Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:31 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology, Robotics