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BIS’ Chief Scientific Adviser Visits Sheffield Robotics

The Government’s chief scientific adviser got a glimpse into the future when he saw how the University of Sheffield is helping to drive forward the UK’s robotics research during a visit today (Tuesday 11 August 2015).

12 Aug 2015

Scientists Use Artificial Evolution and Robotics Simulations to Evolve Complex Robot Behaviors

Darwinian selection can be used to evolve robot controllers able to efficiently self-organize their tasks. Taking inspiration from the way in which ants organise their work and divide up tasks, Eliseo Ferrante and colleagues evolved complex robot behaviors using artificial evolution and detailed robotics simulations.

7 Aug 2015

Spiraling Micro-Tentacles for Microrobotics

The tiny tube circled an ant’s thorax, gently trapping the insect and demonstrating the utility of a microrobotic tentacle developed by Iowa State University engineers.

22 Jun 2015

Microbial Robotics Takes Part in CleanEquity Monaco 2015

Microbial Robotics will present at CleanEquity Monaco 2015 on March 5th & 6th at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

24 Feb 2015

Ozobot Receives 2015 Kids at Play Interactive Award for Best Robot at International CES

Who's that tiny dancer in the aisles of the Consumer Electronics Show? It's Ozobot, the world's smallest programmable robot with the intuitive color-based language. Ozobot's capacity for fun and learning are endless.

31 Dec 2014

University of Michigan Researchers Demonstrate Microbot Muscles

In a step toward robots smaller than a grain of sand, University of Michigan researchers have shown how chains of self-assembling particles could serve as electrically activated muscles in the tiny machines.

11 Nov 2014

Robotic Electrode System Helps Maintain Contact with Neurons

They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry and nerve cells don’t communicate as they should, the consequences can be devastating. Speech can be slurred, muscles stop working on command and memories can be lost forever.

30 Jul 2014

Bacterial Robotics Secures Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus from Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Bacterial Robotics, a synthetic microbial biotechnology firm, today announced it secured an oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) from Nationwide Children's Hospital. The oHSV expresses the human tissue inhibitor metalloproteinases (TIMP3) or firefly luciferase rQT3.

24 Jun 2014

Oscillating Magnetic Fields Control Sperm-Inspired Microrobots

A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which can be controlled by oscillating weak magnetic fields.

3 Jun 2014

Southern Nuclear Engineers Team Receive TIP Award for Developing a Top Industry Practice

A team of Southern Nuclear engineers at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant were honored yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Phoenix, Ariz. They received the nuclear industry's highest honor – a TIP Award – for developing a Top Industry Practice. The team claimed the 2014 GE Hitachi Vendor Award for its participation in GE Hitachi's development of the Stinger™ Automated IVVI, a new first-of-a-kind tool for performing in-vessel visual inspections.

22 May 2014