“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 […]
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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”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American 6 Dec 2021, “Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot,” as used in the post ‘A robot […]
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: […]
Autonomous firefighting robots ready for duty.
Scientific American reports on a growing number of firefighters who don’t have to worry about smoke inhalation or blistering heat – because they’re self-steering robots, […]
Singapore robots patrol against “anti-social behavior.”
Euronews.com reports on a new use for robots, to enforce social mores and good citizenship. Citizens seem less than pleased with the artificial politeness police, […]
Robot sailboat shoots video inside a major hurricane.
NOAA accomplished a world first when category-4 Hurricane Sam raged across the middle Atlantic, by sending an automated vessel named Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 into […]
Robots are waiting tables in Texas.
CNN Business reveals that robots, having basically taken over manufacturing jobs, are now moving into service industry positions, replacing wait staff at a Latin restaurant […]
These drones can be flying grenades.
Popular Science reports on the U.S. Marine Corps’ experimental flying explosive robots: What sets the Drone 40 apart from a host of other small drone […]
“Xenobots” are tiny robots made from living cells – self-healing swarms that can form bodies… and memories.
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re calling […]
Substituting soap-bubble robots for pollinating insects.
Cell reveals a potential replacement for pollinators – the vital insects who keep plants from almonds to corn to quinoa reproducing – by using flying […]
Pigeonbot flies on wings that change shape.
Science News introduces us to a robot that flies on wings that can change shape just like a real bird’s: Now, using new insights into […]
Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot […]