Disney’s Turtle-like robot draws intricate sand art
Apart from sand castles and elaborate water pranks, many beach goers enjoy drawing in the sand, be it simple doodles, ...
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Meet Jibo, the family robot or the HAL 9000 you always wished for
Designed by the world's foremost social robotics expert, MIT's Cynthia Breazeal, Jibo looks like a cross between HAL 9000 and Eve ...
Muscle-driven tiny biobots can walk on command
Photo: University of Illinois Rashid Bashir, the head of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of ...
Robot passes the Turing Test for the first time in history
The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time by a supercomputer program named Eugene Goostman. Eugene ...
Why octupus arms never get entangled
Photo: c4dcafe.com Roboticists and mechanical engineers hold octopuses to great respect and admiration because of their many skills, like great ...
Honeybee artificial brain might help unravel animal cognition
A group of researchers at Universities of Sheffield and Sussex have embarked in a highly ambitious project, in a quest to ...
Baxter, the friendly worker-bot, aims to revolutionize small manufacturing
Rodney Brooks held in a fatherly grip by Baxter. (c) David Yellen Rethink Robotics has been in the attention of ...
Squishy robot camouflages itself effortlessly and blends in [VIDEO]
After UAVs inspired by hawks, robotic stability control spun from leaping lizards, wall climbing derived from geckos or the swimming artificial ...
Navy preps introduction of robot fireman
Once flames brake loose, the close confinements of ships or subs suddenly transform into a hellish scene, claiming the lives ...
DARPA brings “Avatar” to real life with robot surrogate soldiers
You'd be surprised by how many of today's day to day devices were first developed after its creators got inspired ...
Robonaut awaken on ISS, greets astronauts with a firm hand shake [VIDEO]
The Robonaut 2, an autonomous NASA robot commissioned to ease the lives of astronauts on board the International Space Station ...
Robotic hand gripper shoots hoops, plays darts without fingers
Most of the robots we've featured on ZME Science are more or less humanoid in their characteristic. Either they can ...
Robot starfish wiggles through tiny spaces
A seemingly ordinary starfish robot created by scientists at Harvard has pushed the frontiers of robotics one step further by ...
Robot juggling 5 balls; this. Is. AWESOME
You can add another thing to the list of robots do and 99.99% of humans can't; this time, it's all ...
Teaching a robot how to sword fight might support safety advances
If you think giving a robot a sword and teaching him how to use is a bad idea, you may ...
How would you respond to being touched by a robotic nurse ?
To be touched by a careful nurse, and to feel taken care of is very important, and often neglected; having ...
Robot archer learns how to aim and fire
The future is here, baby ! Robot archers, that's what it's all about ! This little humanoid robot, nicknamed iCub ...
The Turtle and the Robot
The guys over at WHOI are doing more and more interesting things every day; just a few days ago I ...
