Robots are still, on the whole, kind of slow responders. The big breakthrough a couple of years ago with Big Dog was that it could run without tipping over – it could respond to changes… Read the rest “A robot that can catch.”
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb:
… Read the rest “Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.”The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle:
… Read the rest “Robot swarms that build. By themselves…”The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, climb a step and lift and put down bricks. And they
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings:
… Read the rest “This robot flies like jellyfish swim.”The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) is published in the UK Royal Society journal
Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present:
… Read the rest “Amazon’s fleet of flying robots”A video of how the service will work has already
I’ve seen this in a few different venues, but Laughing Squid brings the best of it together. A dad, frustrated at the thought of buying his son a prosthetic hand for tens of thousands… Read the rest “Limbs printed to order.”
Nature has the details on the bionic limb wired to an amputee’s nerves:
… Read the rest “Mind-controlled robot leg. An actual one. Not made up.”A 32-year-old man whose knee and lower leg were amputated in 2009 after a motorcycle accident is apparently
PBS is holding a conversation with Reddit about anthropomorphism and what happens when soldiers start treating their machines like comrades – tools with personalities:
… Read the rest “When robots get 21-gun salutes.”“They
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an unmanned fighter jet landed on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier… Read the rest “Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.”
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