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New Protocols Enable Robots to Cooperate with One Another on Complex Jobs Using Body Language

Sometimes all it takes to get help from someone is to wave at them, or point. Now the same is true for robots. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed work on an EU project aimed at enabling robots to cooperate with one another on complex jobs, by using body language.

28 Jun 2016

NSF-Supported Project Aims to Create Autonomous Robotic Insects Capable of Independent Flight

Increasingly, researchers are designing robots with forms and functions that defy our expectation of what a machine can be or do.

8 Jun 2016

Robots Carry out Tasks More Safely if Controlled by Another Technology

Robots carry out their tasks more safely if they are controlled by another technology. This makes them much more suitable for use in the care sector, as revealed by a study conducted at the Robotics and Mechatronics department at the University of Twente. On 2 June, researcher Stefan Groothuis is being awarded his PhD for this work.

3 Jun 2016

Researchers Develop Flying Microrobots that Perch During Flight to Save Energy

Call them the RoboBats. In a recent article in Science, Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energy - like bats, birds or butterflies.

20 May 2016

SBRA Invites Developers to Gain Access to Next Level Interactive Humanoid Robot

SoftBank Robotics America (SBRA), the newly established North American headquarters of SoftBank Robotics Holdings, today invites developers into its new global Developer Portal, to gain access to the next level of interactive high-tech: Pepper, the humanoid robot.

20 May 2016

CMU Researchers Develop Software to Help Robots Deal Efficiently with Clutter

Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software is helping robots cope, whether they're beating a path across the moon or grabbing a milk jug from the back of the refrigerator.

19 May 2016

ICRA 2016: Consequential Robotics to Launch Programmable Companion Robot, MiRO

Consequential Robotics has been co-founded by the award-winning designer Sebastian Conran, together with Professor Tony Prescott and Dr Ben Mitchinson from the University of Sheffield.

18 May 2016

New Robotic Legs Could Help Patients Move Hands-Free

These legs are the only design available that allow people to move about ‘hands-free’. This means they can use their hands for the activities of daily life, like making a cup of tea while upright. The Kent study in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA), will examine the impact of these simple freedoms on the patient, both physically and mentally.

13 May 2016

Georgia Tech Professor Uses Artificial Intelligence to Offer Online Teaching Assistance

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It’s a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online master’s of science in computer science program.

10 May 2016

UW Scientists Develop Five-Fingered Robot Hand that Can Learn from Its Own Experience

Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinning it around to get a solid grip.

10 May 2016