PRINCETON, N.J. — Scientists have taken a cue from nature’s fuzziest insects, creating a caterpillar-like robot that can bend and twist when navigating mazes. This new technology owes its flexibility to the art of origami, which influenced the design of this innovative soft robot. Soft robots are challenging models to move around because adding steering […]
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XTEND, the developer of XOS, an AI-driven operating system that is revolutionizing the way humans interact with drones and robots, has announced its $40M Series B round, led by Chartered Group, with further participation from its existing and new strategic investors, including Clal-Tech. The new funding will further develop XTEND’s proprietary XOS operating system and […]
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Mobilicom Limited a provider of cybersecurity and robust solutions for drones and robotics, announced it has entered a strategic partnership with Mistral Inc. a Bethesda, Maryland based provider of high-performance, reliable, and innovative solutions to U.S. defense and federal agencies. Mistral aims to integrate Mobilicom’s end-to-end solutions into U.S. defense industry and U.S. Department of […]
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More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, has an equally elegant motor with just one moving part: the ball. The only other active moving part of the robot is […]
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An air-filled cavity connects the eardrums of the two ears of this lizzard. In this “tunnel through the head” external and internal sound waves superimpose to produce signals enabling the animal to localize the direction of the sound source. Humans use the time delay between the arrival of a sound wave at each ear to […]
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Motor skill training using a robotic arm exoskeleton may be beneficial to people suffering from post-stroke weakness affecting an entire side of their body, according to research presented this week at the Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting in Sacramento, Calif. A stroke occurs when blood flow to an area of the brain is cut […]
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Good Thai food is great, but bad Thai food can be terrible. Hence the need for a robotic food taster. What? You don’t have one? Then you haven’t heard about the “e-Delicious machine,” a food-tasting robot that its designers say can distinguish between authentic Thai food and inferior knockoffs. Taste Simulator Lets You Relish Virtual […]
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French actress Irene Jacob performs with android Repliee S1 in an adaption of Franz Kafka’s seminal work The Metamorphosis. Atlas resembles humanoid robots we know from fiction, such as The Terminator. Franz Kafka’s seminal work The Metamorphosis is famous for its themes of alienation, absurdity and now androids, as a robot takes center stage in […]
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Geckskin is able to stick to anything that’s vaguely smooth. Newly established Makira Natural Park is now Madagascar’s largest protected area. The hope is that the park will protect hundreds of unique species that live in the northeastern part of the island nation. Even the smallest of animal inhabitants, such as this tiny stump-tailed chameleon, […]
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