Robots will one day provide tremendous benefits to society, such as in search and rescue missions and putting out forest fires — but not until they can learn to keep working if they be... Read more
Drones say goodbye to pilots. With the goal of achieving autonomous flight of these aerial vehicles, the researcher José Martínez Carranza from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics... Read more
Creating quite a buzz among robotics enthusiasts and media outlets, a number of robotic security guards recently toured Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus during an industry event. Today, the... Read more
Marines tested an augmented reality system from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) last week that could revolutionize the way they prepare for battle, allowing them to transform any location... Read more
Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting. Lighting is crucial to the art of photography. But lights are cumbersome and time-consuming to s... Read more
Researchers launch multi-year project to develop robots that can make moral decisions Researchers from Tufts University, Brown University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are teaming wi... Read more
A new approach allows “smart” machines to understand sounds other than speech Robots can already discern and react to speech thanks to voice-recognition software such as the iPhone’s S... Read more
The wonky discipline known as “distributed computation algorithms” can be a bit … dry. So instead of teaching the subject with problem sets and lengthy exams, the faculty of the Institute fo... Read more
Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA’s new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth’s harshest e... Read more
The ‘Mobile Revolution’ is therefore leading to a system of different mobility devices that combine efficiency with an individualized urban lifestyle. StuUnder the slogan “Future needs Utopi... Read more
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... Read more
Flexible design enables body-morphing capability Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each... Read more