Built from a simple Lego NXT kit, a new robotic system designed by a student of FEUP can identify different types of dance and music in an intelligent manner and is fully autonomous. The next step is to create and manage choreography between humanoid robots. The project started just over Read More ...
Ranger navigated 108.5 times around the Barton Hall indoor track — about 212 meters per lap — and made about 70,000 steps before it had to stop and recharge. The 14.3-mile record beats the former world record set by Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, which had claimed the record at 12.8 miles. Read More ...
The robot, the Ecobot III, was developed by researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and will be presented at the Artificial Life conference in Denmark in August. The robot eats meals of partially processed sewage, using the nutrients within the mash for fuel and excreting the remains. It also drinks Read More ...
Most snake robots, being biologically inspired, tend to look like real snakes: long, thin, and have a somewhat slithery motion. But a new snake robot design, called the trident snake robot, isn’t biologically inspired. Instead, it has a central “body” with three “branch legs,” each of which has a wheel. Read More ...
Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier. Autosub has been exploring Pine Island Glacier, a floating extension of the West Antarctic ice sheet, using sonar scanners to map the Read More ...
Although they resemble the robotic arms used in automobile assembly lines, these robots have a far different task: filling test-tubes faster than a human being. And that, scientists say, will speed up the process of scientific discovery. “The robots are from the automobile industry,” said Dr. Greg Roth, director of Read More ...
DURHAM, N.C. — Scientists have used a popular kids swimming pool game to guide their development of a system for controlling moving robots that can autonomously detect and capture other moving targets. Engineers from Duke University and the University of New Mexico have used the simple pursuit-evasion game “Marco Polo” Read More ...
Mechanical engineering students from ETH Zurich have developed an unmanned sailing boat in a focus project that can reach any given destination completely autonomously. The Avalon robot sailing boat is due to set sail from Ireland in the fall and head for the Caribbean. The Caribbean is still a long Read More ...
Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould. Researchers have received a Leverhulme Trust grant to develop the amorphous non-silicon biological robot, plasmobot, using plasmodium, the vegetative stage of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum, a commonly occurring mould which Read More ...
If you want to stay up to date on current robotics projects taking place in university robotics laboratories, you can find many of them at the e-exhibition called the Universities Robotics Platform. The online exhibition, hosted by EXPO21XX, is especially designed for universities to display videos, photos, and descriptions of Read More ...
