News articles tagged with 'robot' (Page 2)
Dancing robot swan triggers emotions
— 22 Sep 2010 10:07 | TechnologyThe Dying Swan is sometimes moving smoothly and gently, sometimes in a dramatic and fiery manner, as Tchaikovsky's majestic music from the ballet Swan Lake is playing. Yet this is no…
Emotional robot pets
— 18 Sep 2010 09:01 | TechnologyDesigners of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced ways,…
Researchers give robots the capability for deceptive behaviour
— 10 Sep 2010 11:52 | TechnologyA robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it's actually…
Miniature auto differential helps tiny aerial robots stay aloft
— 3 Sep 2010 12:01 | TechnologyEngineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental…
Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb
— 26 Aug 2010 20:04 | TechnologyA Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko's sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick glass, the Stickybot…
A robot that identifies doors from their handles
— 17 Aug 2010 11:27 | TechnologyThe intelligent robots that appear in the movies have little relation to real life, although the tendency in current robotics to create machines that are as independent as possible…
Teaching robot helps children to use wheelchair
— 13 Aug 2010 07:57 | HealthA robotic wheelchair is being developed that will help children learn to 'drive.' Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation…
Robot climbs walls
— 5 Aug 2010 08:49 | TechnologyWielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum, a small robot named ROCR ('rocker') scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds…
Gut movements in caterpillars inspire soft-body robot design
— 23 Jul 2010 09:56 | Biology'Weird movements' in the abdomens of freely crawling caterpillars are making headlines in the fields of engineering and biology, says Jake Socha, Virginia Tech assistant professor of…
Next generation surgical robots: Where's the doctor?
— 21 Jul 2010 09:24 | HealthAs physician-guided robots routinely operate on patients at most major hospitals, the next generation robot could eliminate a surprising element from that scenario - the doctor…