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Driving test for Luca Parmitano on robotic geology science

Nov 19, 2019 (ESA)

In a series of experiments, collectively called Analog-1, the Space Station will be used as a stand-in for a spacecraft in orbit around another planetary body, ...

Google Assistant to be 'news host' on devices

Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)

The feature called Your News Update will be activated by asking the Google Assistant to read the news. The artificial intelligence program will deliver "a mix o...

U.S. Army chooses FLIR's Kobra heavy robot vehicle

Nov 18, 2019 (UPI)

The track-mounted vehicles are used for explosive ordnance disposal and other heavy-lifting duties. The contract with FLIR, headquartered in Wilsonville, Ore., ...

Subterranean Challenge Identifies Urban Circuit Location, Updates Prize Amounts

Nov 14, 2019 (SPX)

Systems competitors from around the world will field their robot teams to find as many artifacts as possible in complex underground settings. Prizes of $500,000...

Army researcher promotes cooperation between humans, autonomous machines

Nov 14, 2019 (SPX)

Dr. Celso M. de Melo, a computer scientist from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory at its ARL West campus in Playa...

Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to 'grow' like a plant

Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)

Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible enough to twist and turn in any necessary configuration, yet rigid e...

Chinese researchers design novel flying robot

Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)

No, but Chinese researchers at the Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have designed a promising alternative. Recently, th...

Robots 'not evil' says Boston Dynamics as humanoids go viral

Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)

Not so, says their creator Marc Raibert in an interview with AFP at the Lisbon Web Summit, claiming that the Spot robots aren't evil and won't be turned into we...

On the way to intelligent microrobots

Nov 07, 2019 (SPX)

The robot, which measures only a few micrometres across, is reminiscent of a paper bird made with origami - the Japanese art of paper folding. But, unlike a pap...

New soft-muscled RoboBee is accident proof

Nov 04, 2019 (UPI)

"There has been a big push in the field of microrobotics to make mobile robots out of soft actuators because they are so resilient," Yufeng Chen, a former gradu...

Teams Complete SubT Challenge Virtual Tunnel Circuit

Nov 01, 2019 (SPX)

DARPA-funded and self-funded teams compete side-by-side throughout the Subterranean Challenge. Only self-funded teams are eligible for prizes in the Circuit Eve...

Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping

Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)

Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged robots and their ability to run, jump and even do backflips. But getting two-legged, humanoid robots t...

Human reflexes keep two-legged robot upright

Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)

Engineers from the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a step closer to human-operated robotics with their two-legged unit,...

Robot acquires new, essential spacewalking functions says cosmonaut

Oct 25, 2019 (Sputnik)

Speaking at a presentation as part of the annual International Astronautical Congress in Washington, Kud-Sverchkov said that ground experiments and simulations ...

New lightweight, portable robotic suit to increase running and walking performance

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

Many researchers have pondered over this problem over the years, developing a number of external devices that, once worn by users, allow them to move, walk, and...

Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

But what if the final assembly was the only assembly, with the whole plane built out of a large array of tiny identical pieces, all put together by an army of t...

Researchers build a soft robot with neurologic capabilities

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, said the work represents a significant step toward the dev...

Facebook researchers use maths for better translations

Oct 13, 2019 (AFP)

Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue -- even if a universal co...

Army bio-inspired theoretical research may make robots more effective on the future battlefield

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

Bionanomotors, like myosins that move along actin networks, are responsible for most methods of motion in all life forms. Thus, the development of artificial na...

Controlling robots across oceans and space

Oct 04, 2019 (ESA)

Imagine looking down at the Moon from the Gateway as you prepare to land near a lunar base to run experiments, but you know the base needs maintenance work on t...