Robots News

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Everything man can imagine is quickly becoming a reality. Advances in technology have introduced a concept called soft robotics ; soft robots don't just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels.

Drones are suddenly everywhere you look, like some science fiction movie come to life.

Professor Aaron Dollar of Yale's GRAB LAB shows off the functioning prosthetic hand he helped create, one of the topics of his talk on the future of robotics, Rosie, R2-D2, C3-P0 and 3Ds, on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m., at Essex Town Hall.

Who needs an army of lawyers when you have a computer? When Minneapolis attorney William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a recent case, he turned to a so-called smart computer programme.

Following on a well-publicized match between Timo Boll and a Kuka robot arm that was, being kind, a videographer's realization of what it might be like, it seems that doubt has fallen on all ping pong playing robots.

BEIJING, March 15 -- In China's previous space missions, astronauts like Yang Liwei emerged as heroes, but in the country's third lunar exploration, a robot has unexpectedly grabbed the nation's heart.

Cubestormer 3, designed by David Gilday and Mike Dobson, recorded a time of 3.253 seconds at Birmingham's NEC.

Technology has afforded plenty of opportunities to eliminate some of the human-error that's inevitable in various fields -- from medicine to manufacturing.

The robot moves underwater autonomously and can accurately replicate a high-speed maneuver called the C-turn, which its living fish counterparts use to evade prey.

Kalamazoo Gazette photographers looked back over work from the past week to select some of their favorite photos to write about.

An elephant's trunk is one of the marvels of the animal kingdom. With up to 40,000 muscles, the trunk is powerful enough to lift a 600-pound log and delicate enough to crack a peanut shell without damaging the nut.

March 2013: Not content in ruling the information superhighway, Google is moving closer to dominating real roads by, yesterday, winning a patent that advances its Google Car self-drive capabilities.

Finally realizing that C-3PO, R2-D2 and Johnny-5 have needs too, a German software company worked with artist Giles Walker to create Lexy and Tess two female robot strippers that gyrate and grind on a pole.

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But the company also has an excellent Scooba series of robots that wash your floor with detergent and water.

Listen to this three-piece with your eyes closed and it could be any group of musicians plucking a guitar, twinkling on an electric keyboard, or beating a drum.

STUDENTS from five schools in and around Malvern and Worcester spent the day at QinetiQ in a bid to inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and technologists.

ROBOTS have created quite a bit of noise in the technology industry this past week, from a Lego autobot that aims to solve a Rubik's Cube in record time, to computer powered ping pong playing machines and even "soft" robotic fish that replicate the movements of real sea life .

"What is incredible about these accusations is they are not coming from Senator Ron 'Privacy is important' Wyden or Senator Rand 'Don't kill me with a flying robot' Paul," Stewart said.