Mining for resources hidden under the surface of the earth has never been a job devoid of hazards. You can start with the fact the it’s under the earth, and there’s no natural light, and the spaces can get tiny so it’s clearly not a job even for the mildly   Read More ...

Richard Attenborough did it as John Hammond in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park by reviving real live dinosaurs from fossilized DNA, and now scientists at Drexl University have hit upon another way to unlock the secrets of the dinosaurs: robotic technology. That is a correct, a team comprising of paleontologists and   Read More ...

A group of robot aficionados from the Suidobashi Heavy Industry in Japan are trying to make their mark in the arena of robotic technology by creating a giant Kinect-based robot. They have built a 13 feet tall and 4.9 tonne heavy robot that can be controlled by humans. There are   Read More ...

Application of the latest robotic technology in agriculture is a newly emerging application of this technology. One of the areas of agriculture where robotic technology can be used is land tillage. Traditionally, the mechanization which took place in agriculture was machine-centric and not crop-centric. For example, sowing was carried out   Read More ...

Robotic mapping is one of the many practical—and at times tactical—applications of the latest robotic technologythat is getting increasingly relevant in the world we live in. Robotic technology, as we know, has made some hitherto impossible tasks possible, such as monitoring pipelines for weak spots or getting into maintenance crawl spaces   Read More ...

So what exactly is soft robotics? Before we get to that, let us talk about how exactly we’d expect robotic technology to affect our lives in the near future. The answer is not that simple. There are many channels or streams through which the latest robotic technology is growing at   Read More ...

Robotic technology, owing to its wide range of applications is making its presence felt in different fields ranging from engineering to medicine. In yet another breakthrough, this time by researchers at Cambridge University, the latest robotic technology is being used for development of artificial bones. The research conducted involves the use   Read More ...

There was a time when critics of robotic surgery raised questions about its reliability and cost-effectiveness. They also accused the proponents of this technology to be overzealous rather than pragmatic. It was said that robots were not at all needed to perform a surgery and the technological change was introduced   Read More ...

In recent posts on this robotics blog, we have talked about how robotic technology is shaping the battlefield and war doctrine of the future. However, owing the latest breakthroughs in the research with respect to tactical usage of robotic technology have made it possible for robotic devices to already make   Read More ...

Robotic surgery for prostate cancer has made a large influence on prostate cancer treatment during the last decade. Far from being the latest robotic technology, this type of robotic surgical technology was developed first by the United States military to be used on the battlefield, it has recently been applied   Read More ...