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Robotic Antenna Mimicks Cockroach's Hairs

Love them or hate them, cockroaches are notoriously good escape artists and can flee at astonishing speeds.

6 Dec 2013

Latest European Biomimetic Robotics Research Showcased at Science Museum

Robotic cheetah cubs and salamanders have ventured from Lausanne into the depths of London's robot jungle, at the Science Museum, in a Robot Safari that just opened and runs until Sunday.

30 Nov 2013

Robot Turtle for Penetrating Shipwrecks to Premiere at London Science Museum

The Robot Safari in London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the underwater robot U-CAT, a highly maneuverable robot turtle, designed to penetrate shipwrecks.

28 Nov 2013

RobotSafariEU at Science Museum, London to Explore the World of Biomimetic Robots

The Science Museum, London, opens exhibition showing 13 Robot SafariEU biomimetic robots throughout Europe. Only two are Spanish, Bat-Bot and ITuna. They have been designed by UPM researchers.

26 Nov 2013

Robotic Drone to Study Biodiverse Ecosystems in Peru’s Tropical Cloud Forest

As U.N. climate talks continue in Warsaw, soon a flying, insect-like robot developed by scientists at Wake Forest University will give an unprecedented look at Peru’s tropical cloud forest, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems and a key indicator of global climate change.

22 Nov 2013

Penguins Inspire Novel Spherical Joint Mechanism for Propulsion Systems

Back in 1991, Nature published a picture from the IMAX movie Antarctica, along with the caption: “Emperor penguins may be waddling jokes on land, but underwater they can turn into regular rockets…accelerating from 0 to 7 m/s in less than a second.”

16 Nov 2013

Study on Stingray Movement for Next Generation UUVs to be Presented at 66th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at Buffalo and Harvard University are studying how their movements could be used to design more agile and fuel-efficient unmanned underwater vehicles.

14 Nov 2013

Robosaur Helps Study How Dinosaurs Walked

Kingsbury, a doctoral candidate in physics and researcher in the Complex Rheology and Biomechanics (CRAB) Lab at Georgia Tech, is working with Associate Professor Daniel Goldman and Stephen Gatesy at Brown University to build a “Robosaur.” The idea is to study how dinosaurs walked, with the goal of using the secrets of the past to enhance the future. Their project is up for funding on Georgia Tech Starter, a new peer-reviewed crowd-funding website.

14 Nov 2013

Georgia Tech Starter Supports BioBot and Robosaur Projects

In need of funding for a creative research project? Well, a new Georgia Tech-backed crowdfunding website may be just the resource you’re looking for.

13 Nov 2013

Novel Device Pumps Human Waste into ‘Engine Room’ of Self-Sustaining Robot

A new device capable of pumping human waste into the "engine room" of a self-sustaining robot has been created by a group of researchers from Bristol.

8 Nov 2013