To meet our everyday needs in an increasingly multifaceted technological world is a challenge that pushes researchers to find innovative tools using a multidisciplinary approach. We inhabit... Read more
A way of making hundreds – or even thousands – of tiny robots cluster to carry out tasks without using any memory or processing power has been developed by engineers at the Unive... Read more
The winner of the Electrolux Design contest features these tiny, bug-like robots that will do your chores for you. The future can’t come soon enough Nobody likes cleaning the house. So... Read more
Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly esta... Read more
A new study of animal swarms uncovers some new features of their collective behaviour when overcrowding sets in Swarming is the spontaneous organised motion of a large number of individuals.... Read more
Development in this area is no longer just a flight of fancy Remote-controlled quadrotor robots have been around for some time, but in the following video just released by a research team at... Read more
Do you think that you’ll never be able to afford a robot of your own that isn’t a toy? Well, if you can get Swiss robot-maker K-Team Corporation to sell you one, chances are you... Read more