Driverless cars: an economic problem.
Another one for the unintended consequences file? From Slashdot (not normally a research reporting resource, but bear with us) we hear a note of concern […]
robotics
A robot that can catch.
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 […]
Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb: The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors […]
Robot swarms that build. By themselves…
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle: The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, […]
This robot flies like jellyfish swim.
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings: The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) […]
Amazon’s fleet of flying robots
Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present: A video of how […]
Limbs printed to order.
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 […]
Mind-controlled robot leg. An actual one. Not made up.
Nature has the details on the bionic limb wired to an amputee’s nerves: A 32-year-old man whose knee and lower leg were amputated in 2009 […]
When robots get 21-gun salutes.
PBS is holding a conversation with Reddit about anthropomorphism and what happens when soldiers start treating their machines like comrades – tools with personalities: “They […]
Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.
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 […]