PAL Robotics has been working on its REEM-x lineup of wheeled humanoid robots for some time. Now it
German scientists have unveiled a female robot which they claim is best suited for factory work despite her model-like looks.
(PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype robot spy "ornithopter," the Nano-Hummingbird, has successfully completed flight trials in California. Developed by the company AeroVironment Inc., the miniature spybot looks like a hummingbird complete with flapping wings, and is only slightly larger and heavier than most hummingbirds, but smaller than the largest species.
A robot freighter is poised to blast into the skies on Tuesday in the heftiest liftoff in Europe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Minoru Asada, a professor of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University in Japan and head of the JST ERATO Asada Project, along with two of his colleagues; Hisashi Ishihara, a PhD candidate at Osaka University; and Yuichiro Yoshikawa, from the Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University have developed a child-like robot platform called Affetto.
They walk, they dance, they...perform surgeries? Take a look at some of the best robotic creations of 2010!
Dec. 2 - A team of scientists has demonstrated that a coordinated group of pre-programmed, autonomous robots can do the job of building workers, constructing a six meter high tower without any human intervention. Architects say this new technology paves the way for new methods of engineering buildings of the future. Georgina Cooper reports.
A humanoid robot will travel to the international space station this week on the final flight of the shuttle Discovery
