Ukrainian military to use robot dogs.
The Byte is not filling us with apprehension at all with news of robot dogs being unleashed in the latest escalation of their conflict with […]
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Living skin helps robot smile in a way that is not at all creepy.
Glistening and pink like extruded edible protein, sure… but at least it’s friendly! NPR uncovers the living skin used to cover robots with a (supposedly) […]
All thumbs bad, third thumb good.
Science Adviser has news (and video) of a handy little upgrade invented by robotics researcher Tamar Makin and her colleagues. They’re calling it the Third […]
Driverless cars, OK. Pilotless fighter jets? They’re flying now, too.
AP reports on a robot F16 that has just taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall out for a joyride courtesy of an AI fighter pilot: […]
Robot warships hitting targets in the open sea.
Popular Science reported on “ghost ships,” a.k.a. USVs (Unmanned Sea Vehicles), passing their latest targeting tests on maneuvers in the Middle East: The tests, dubbed […]
SONG: The Elephant
SONG: “The Elephant” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: BBC 28 Feb 2023, “Kerala: India temple replaces elephant with robot for rituals,” as used in the […]
Lake Huron reveals 19th-century shipwreck.
Ars Technica celebrates an underwater discovery: the surprisingly well-preserved wreck of the schooner barge Ironton, which went down in 1898 after colliding with the Great […]
Kerala temple introduces a robot ritual elephant.
BBC reports on a mechanical elephant that is replacing a flesh-and-blood elephant that previously conducted rituals in a temple in Kerala, India: The initiative by […]
Robot honeybees can steer hives to safer flowers.
MIT Technology Review offers a strange solution to a serious problem. They’ve got robot bees who can dance inside a bee hive to direct workers […]
“Necrobotic” spiders grab things more precisely than machine fingers.
Rice University robotics engineers are playing with dead things – spiders, to be precise – and say they’ve come up with a breakthrough in precision […]
FedEx is testing a drone with a 27-foot wingspan for “middle mile” delivery.
Popular Science explains the 9.000-pound flying robots made by the drone company Elroy Air aren’t meant to get your packages to your door. They’re just […]
Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot
Science reports on a Human Frontier Science Program project that is creating a more stable, more self-controlled walking robot by basing its motion on emus […]
SONG: In Pompeii
SONG: “In Pompeii” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American 6 Dec 2021, “Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot,” as used in the post […]
Self-driving tractor ready for remote-control farming.
CNet reports on John Deere’s invention of an autonomous robot tractor you can control with your smartphone: “It takes a while to get comfortable because […]
Living robots – “xenobots” – can reproduce themselves.
Science News is not panicking at all about the prospect of robots that can replicate copies of themselves that can then replicate copies of themselves: […]