Robots will soon be able to feel heat or gentle touching on their surfaces. Researchers in Germany are now producing small hexagonal plates which when joined together form a sensitive skin for "machines with brains." This will not only help robots to better navigate in their environments, it will also enable robot
The Aero Train is a free-flying, robotic train-plain that levitates on a cushion of air.
This headless, two-armed robot may be tomorrow
Researchers have introduced the first intubation robot operated by remote control. The robotic system may facilitate the intubation procedure and reduce some complications associated with airway management.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The great thing about robots is that they come in all shapes and sizes. Of course, that is also one of the creepiest things about robots too. You never know what is going to be a robot these days. There are people shaped robots, there are robots that are designed to explore the depths of space. That bird that you see on the building. It could be a robot too.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that people generally have a positive response toward being touched by a robotic nurse, but
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Geminoid DK, an android built by Kokoro in Tokyo, was constructed to look exactly like Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in
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
Within six months the military plans to begin implanting microchips on the surface of patients' brains to study a prosthetic robotic arm controlled by the user's thoughts, via the chip.
(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.
