Medical micro-robots automatically change shape to swim through the body
New Atlas - Mon 21 Jan 19It's looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or scrubbing out your arteries. But the human body is full ...
Video Friday: AMBIDEX Cable-Driven Robot Arm, and More
IEEE Spectrum - Fri 18 Jan 19Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Ten of the most innovative robotics developments of the past year
TechXplore - Fri 18 Jan 19Guang-Zhong Yang, an editor at Science Robotics, with help from an international team of contributors, has highlighted ten notable robotics developments that occurred over the past year in the ...
This Robot Skeleton is Helping Scientists Learn How Prehistoric Animals Moved
Discover Magazine - Thu 17 Jan 19A robot mimicking a prehistoric fossil suggests the ancestors of reptiles, birds and mammals might have walked more efficiently on land than previously thought. Nowadays, the most widespread ...
Robots can go all the way to Mars but they can't pick up the groceries
Phys.org - Thu 17 Jan 19Cambridge researchers are studying the interaction between robots and humans – and teaching them how to do the very difficult things that we find easy.
Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature
Phys.org - Wed 16 Jan 19How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create a moving robot model of prehistoric life.
A four-legged robot hints at how ancient tetrapods walked
ScienceNews - Wed 16 Jan 19Using fossils, computer simulations and a life-size walking robot, researchers re-created how an early tetrapod may have made tracks.
Robot reveals when tetrapods first walked tall
Cosmos Magazine - Wed 16 Jan 19Scientists reverse engineer a bot to learn about the first land animals. Nick Carne reports.
Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk
Newscientist - Wed 16 Jan 19A robotic version of a four-legged animal that lived 290 million years ago suggests it had an efficient walking style despite spending some of its life in water
A decentralized trajectory generation algorithm for multi-robot systems
TechXplore - Tue 15 Jan 19Researchers at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in India have recently developed a decentralized trajectory generation algorithm for multi-agent systems. Their algorithm, presented ...
Algorithm gives robots an instinctive understanding of how to use tools
Phys.org - Tue 15 Jan 19A*STAR researchers working with colleagues in Japan have developed a method by which robots can automatically recognize an object as a potential tool and use it, despite never having seen it ...
This Robot Recreated the Walk of a 290-Million-Year-Old Animal
Geek.com - Sun 20 Jan 19Prehistoric creatures died years ago, however, a new AI device could help us better understand how they moved across the Earth: Meet OroBOT, a robot that can replicate the walk of a 290-million-year-old ...
Researchers use robot to recreate movement of 290-million-old creature that existed before dinosaurs
FOXNews - Fri 18 Jan 19Scientists now have an idea of how an ancient creature likely moved thanks to a nearly 300-million year-old-fossil skeleton and a set of well-preserved footprints.
Scientists built a lizard-like robot based on a 280-million-year-old fossil - CNET
CNET - Fri 18 Jan 19They knew what they were doing when they taught it to walk this way.
Robot Dog Can Learn To Pick Itself Back Up After A Fall
Ubergizmo - Fri 18 Jan 19There are some movies where we get comical scenes of people pushing over robots who are unable to pick themselves up after they fall. This seemed like a good way to run away from our robot ...
Scientists bring giant 290 million-year-old lizard back from the dead
Daily Mail - Wed 16 Jan 19Researchers from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany matched a large lizard called Orobates pabsti that lived 290 million years ago to well-preserved footprints.
Video of the week: walking with Orobates
The Engineer - Thu 17 Jan 19This week’s video comes from Switzerland where scientists have used the fossil and fossilised footprints of a 300-million-year-old Orobates pabsti to create a robot. Made up of researchers ...
A Crocodile-Like Robot Helps Solve a 300-Million-Year Mystery
Wired Science - Wed 16 Jan 19Researchers use a fossil, fancy computer work, and a complex robot to tease apart how an early land-walking animal moved.
Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature
The Hindu - Thu 17 Jan 19The four-legged Orabates pabsti lived much before the dinosaurs