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Autonomous, Life-Like Robotic Jellyfish for Ocean Patrol

Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds.

29 Mar 2013

Researchers Work on Creating Networks of Robots Using Biological Insights

Watching a flock of thousands of starlings take to the sky is a spectacular sight. As the flock changes direction, it looks like a formation of suspended iron filings guided by an invisible magnet in the sky.

8 Feb 2013

Male Silkmoth Tracks Sex Pheromones Driving a Robot

A small, two-wheeled robot has been driven by a male silkmoth to track down the sex pheromone usually given off by a female mate.

6 Feb 2013

Milli-Motein - Reconfigurable Robot

The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable.

30 Nov 2012

Researchers Study Whirligig Beetle Movements for Bio-Inspired Robot Development

Whirligig beetles are named for their whirling movement on top of water, moving rapidly in and taking off into flight.

30 Nov 2012

Human Models to Improve the Perception of Robots

Perceive first, act afterwards.The architecture of most of today’s robots is underpinned by this control strategy.The eSMCs project has set itself the aim of changing the paradigm and generating more dynamic computer models in which action is not a mere consequence of perception but an integral part of the perception process.

19 Oct 2012

Tufts University Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Create Soft-Bodied Robots

A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Tufts University will help launch an interdisciplinary graduate program to enable scientists and engineers to create soft-bodied robots.

18 Oct 2012

Researchers to Develop Autonomous Flying Robot by Simulating Honey Bee Brain

Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are embarking on an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer models of a honey bee brain in a bid to advance our understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how animals think.

3 Oct 2012

Homeland Security Supports Development of Battery-Powered Robotic Tuna

The development of ‘BIOSwimmer’, an unmanned underwater vehicle with its design similar to a tuna, has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).

21 Sep 2012

General Public Help Select Four Robots for Hall of Fame

For the first time members of the general public will help select four robots for induction into the Robot Hall of Fame® from a slate of a dozen nominees.

21 Aug 2012