TechJect is looking to raise $110,000 via indigogo by the time the calendar ticks over to 2013. Given their impressive flight capabilities, it’s not surprising to see researchers turning to the world of flying insects [...]

The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that [...]

Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have ‘beamed’ a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale. Published today in PLOS ONE, the research [...]

In recent years, telepresence systems have become more common. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than a videophone on top of a motorized stick. The EU Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) [...]

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitate the entry into research on humanoids, in particular, the [...]

The dream of regaining the ability to stand up and walk has come closer to reality for people paralyzed below the waist who thought they would never take another step. A team of engineers at [...]

CIROS is also capable of intelligently loading and unloading a dishwasher. Researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology’s (KIST) Center for Intelligent Robotics (CIR) demonstrated their household service robot, CIROS, at Robot World [...]

Cornell researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles. Able to guide itself through forests, tunnels or damaged buildings, the machine could [...]

“If we time things right, the robot can jump with a tenth of the power required to jump to the same height under other conditions,” A new study shows that jumping can be much more [...]

Grandma and Grandpa would love a little robotic help around the house, a new study has found. In a survey, a team of psychologists and engineers found that adults over age 65 felt generally positive [...]

DARPA wants robots that are able to eventually do many things humans can A headless humanoid robot clambers noisily through an obstacle course with the grim, unfeeling purpose of a terminator. Luckily, it’s just the [...]

What if your heart stopped and a flying robot landed to shock you back to life before ambulances could arrive? A USA Today investigation a few years ago found that, of the 250,000 fatal cardiac arrests that occur [...]