War leaves out a lot of dirty side-effects the worst of which is the mine-field. The single largest cause of civilian death in war-torn countries, a mine is simple and effect tool of death. Technology has come a long way from the age of metal detectors. Robots are used not Read More ...
As a faint hope of 29 men trapped in a coal mine in New Zealand, an American expert in robotics is not surprised that the army of a bomb disposal robot in short circuit today, when he hit the water just 1,800 feet in Pike River mine. Robin Murphy from 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 ...
