'Living' robots powered by muscle
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Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Researchers are studying the spinal cord of the eel-like sea lamprey in hopes that a machine based on its structure could someday enable paralyzed people to regain control of their legs. By Karen Lurie.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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Robots will be truly useful when they get sensitive arms and hands, plus the programming to use them properly.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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It could be called a mechanical miracle &#151; a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs.
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RunBot, a 9-inch-high machine, can adapt to different terrain, adjusting its gait and posture after a few learning experiences.
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No other way to cope with monster vegetable menace In a further outre twist, the budding Japanese robot'n' exoskeleton industry plans to move into a new sector. Researchers in the land of the Rising Sun have exhibited a mighty powered suit which could see increasingly elderly farmers - lifespans prolonged indefinitely perhaps, by advancing medical technology - striding across the fields reaping crops and lifting heavy loads.â¦
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A team of US scientists show off a novel device that harvests energy from human movements.
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The future of robotics may involve teams of small, cooperating droids.
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FOR decades, science fiction has promised a future in which lifeâs most mundane chores are carried out by robots. Sadly, the clunky, wobbling automatons that have been wheeled out as examples of this brave
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A tiny generator that harnesses vibrations to produce power has been created by British scientists.
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Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea.
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BURLINGTON - Forget R2D2. The next frontier in robotics is a miniature tank that borrows some of the technology behind military bomb-defusing robots - to eject rotting foliage from your gutters.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.