Meet the robot fish with battery fluid blood
Development combines drive and power in liquid system.
Scientists have created a robot lionfish that can swim against the current and has battery fluid for blood. Such a d...
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Robots relieving chronic pain
Could soon be used to apply targeted therapy.
Researchers have developed a robot system which combines thermal cameras and lasers to examine and then treat back, n...
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Breaking: robot makes breakfast
It’s more important than it sounds.
Researchers have taught a robot to make breakfast using coordinated two-handed movements previously beyond robotic ab...
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Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s your retail delivery
NASA builds drone-management software as numbers grow.
Modelling suggests that within a year or so there will be about 400,000 commercial drones operating in the US, alongs...
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Meet the fly-drive drone
Prototype has several forms of locomotion but one set of motors.
This is a world-first flying, driving and squeezing drone, made by researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Ne...
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Robot Academy lets anyone build robots
Students from 175 countries have learnt how to build robots.
Inspiration often strikes at the most unexpected of times. For Queensland University of Technology robotics professor...
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Robots to decide on beer quality
AI may cut brewery product development time and costs.
One day soon, perhaps, beer availability will be determined by robots. ianmcdonnell/Getty Images The international...
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The internet of thoughts is coming
Bot-enabled interface between brains and cloud storage is likely.
Before the century is out, advances in nano-technology, nano-medicine, AI, and computation will result in the develop...
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Killer robots already exist
Anxiety about autonomous weapons is rational.
Humans will always make the final decision on whether armed robots can shoot, according to a statement by the US Depa...
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Legal problems loom for cyborgs
The problem is the law doesn’t recognise them.
The new movie Alita: Battle Angel has once again drawn our attention to the idea of cyborgs: machine-human hybrids. A...
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The science of cyborgs like Alita: Battle Angel
It make us think about what the future looks likes.
Alita: preparing for battle. Credit: 20th Century Fox Alita: Battle Angel is an interesting and wild ride, jam-packed...
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10 most exciting developments with robots
Celebrate advances in several different fields.
From the pages of science fiction stories, to cinema and television screens, to perching next to us in the workplace,...