NASA's new prototype MRV, Modular robotic vehicle, is built to explore planets. But it would be a dream for all those gadget lovers and those…
Robots to the Rescue! JPL’s RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help JPL has been engaged in several programs over the last couple of…
Scientists from Stanford have developed several of super-small and super strong robots. With tracking inspired by Geckos, they can climb walls. New Scientist reports, "The…
In INHUMAN KIND, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a…
Meet Spot, another robot creation by Boston Dynamics. Spot is a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically…
DARPA revealed upgrades to its Atlas robot on January 20, 2015. The robot was redesigned for DARPA by Boston Dynamics, with the goal of improving…
By copying the undulating swimming skills of cuttlefish, this robot by Sepios is an underwater robot able to tackle plenty of obstacles in its way.…
Using localization we are able to send a single footstep plan to the robot telling it to walk over the cinder blocks and repeat without…
Robert Wood, a National Geographic 2014 Emerging Explorer and award-winning engineer, is working on entirely new classes of robots—including a fleet of tiny, robotic bees—that…
War by itself pose ethical dilemmas and using robots in war, even more so. However, robotics in war is a reality and will likely become…
TED presents Vijay Kumar talking about the potential of robotic quadrotors. In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that…
TED presents Andrew McAfee who asks, are droids taking our jobs? Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating…
Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and…