Not sure if youve ever seen the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, but it’s essentially about people who get inside absolutely giant robots and fight each other in them – top stuff, I think you’ll agree. Clearly though, it is fully cemented in the world of the make-believe. Or it was until now, because a Japanese […]
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More than fifty of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence have come together to try and halt the actions of a South Korean university that they believe could basically be building Skynet. They’re not using such layman’s terms as “Skynet”, “Terminator” or “Did you call moi a dip-shit?” though. What they’re concerned about is a joint […]
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A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3D-printed robot — nicknamed the octobot — could pave the way for a new generation of completely soft, autonomous machines. Soft robotics could revolutionize how humans interact with machines. […]
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Call them the RoboBats. In a recent article in Science, Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energy — like bats, birds or butterflies. “Many applications for small drones require them to stay in the air for extended periods,” said Moritz Graule, first author of […]
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apan’s Sharp will launch in May a smartphone that’s built into a humanoid robot. Or is it a humanoid robot with a built-in smartphone? The Robohon is said to be the world’s first mobile robotic phone — and judging from the price and slightly unwieldy form factor could also be the last. It’s 19.5 centimeters (7.7 […]
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A child plays an interactive language learning game with Tega, a socially assistive robot. Parents want the best for their children’s education and often complain about large class sizes and the lack of individual attention. Goren Gordon, an artificial intelligence researcher from Tel Aviv University who runs the Curiosity Lab there, is no different. […]
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Madeline Gannon (A 2016), a Ph.D. candidate in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, has put the power of interacting with robots into our hands — literally. Now programming robots is not just for those with years of coding knowledge, it’s for anyone who wants to experience what it’s like to simply wave at a […]
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The Harvard RoboBee, designed in Wood’s lab, is a microrobot, smaller than a paperclip, that flies and hovers like an insect, flapping its tiny, nearly invisible wings 120 times per second. In 1939, a Russian engineer proposed a “flying submarine” — a vehicle that can seamlessly transition from air to water and back again. While […]
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A study by engineers at Oregon State University suggests that they have achieved the most realistic robotic implementation of human walking dynamics that has ever been done, which may ultimately allow human-like versatility and performance. The system is based on a concept called “spring-mass” walking that was theorized less than a decade ago, and combines […]
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The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus go on sale tomorrow (September 25), and queues have already started forming around the world. In the ultimate case of tech nerd meets social anxiety with a hearty dollop of ingenuity, however, a woman in Australia has shunned camping out on the street herself – sending her robot […]
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