Robot News: Page 6

The Glaucus is a Quadrupedal Soft Robot With No Hard Mechanical Parts (April 6, 2014): The Glaucus is a quadrupedal soft robot with no hard mechnical parts. It is made from a seemless rubber skin.

University of Maryland Researchers Build Amphibious Robotic Horseshoe Crab (April 5, 2014): Researchers from the University of Maryland have built an amphibious robotic horseshoe crab that can right itself.

Disney Reveals a New Type of Display Created by Swarming Robot Pixels (April 5, 2014): Disney revealed a new type of display that is created by tiny swarming robot pixels, called Pixelbots.

Festo Builds a Robotic Kangaroo (April 4, 2014): Festo has built a robotic kangaroo called BionicKangaroo.

Telepresence Robot Can Wear Your Friend's Face (April 1, 2014): A robot called SociBot-Mini can wear your friend's face on its transparent plastic face.

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Scrabble Playing Robot (March 18, 2014): Carnegie Mellon researchers have built a robot that plays Scrabble. The robot, named Victor, often insults its human opponents.

HyQ Robot's Animal-Like Step Reflex Revealed (March 18, 2014): Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia have developed an animal-like step reflex for their HyQ quadruped robot.

MIT Researchers Build a Soft Robotic Fish (March 15, 2014): MIT researchers have developed a soft robotic fish. The fish robot can executve an escape maneuver as quickly as a real fish.

Aluminalis is a 16-Legged Robot (March 11, 2014): Aluminalis is a 16-legged robot built by Beatty Robotics in Asheville, NC.

Wearable Robot Lets Humans Easily Lift Over 100 Pounds With Each Hand (March 8, 2014): A device called a wearable robot enables human to easily life over 100 pounds with each hand. The robo-suit was developed by researchers at Percro.

Agnes the Robot Knitter Knits a Scarf (February 28, 2014): Agnes Roboknit is a creepy humanoid knitting robot. This timelapse video shows Agnes knitting a scarf.

Japanese Researchers Build Robotic Japanese Garden Lamps (February 27, 2014): Researchers in Japan have developed robotic Japanese garden lamps.

Telemedicine: Robonaut Trained to Give Humans Injections (February 22, 2014): Robonaut is being trained to give humans injections and use ultrasound. The robot could be used as a telemedicine doctor in space.

Leaderless Robots Inspired by Termites Build Structures Using Foam Bricks (February 13, 2014): Harvard computer scientists and engineers have developed leaderless robots inspired by termites that can build structures using foam bricks.

E-whiskers: Berkeley Researchers Develop Whiskers for Robots (January 22, 2014): Researchers at the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created created e-whiskers using composite films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles .

Robot Turtle Designed to Help Archaeologists Explore Shipwrecks (January 11, 2014): This robot turtle, U-CAT, was designed to help archaeologists explore underwater shipwrekcs. It was recently on display at the London Science Museum.

NASA Unveils Valkyrie Robot (December 11, 2013): NASA has unveiled its Valkyrie robot.

Tiny Flying Robot Resembles a Jellyfish (November 26, 2013): Leif Ristroph and colleagues at New York University have built a four-winged robot that flies like a jellyfish.

Robo Faber is an Autonomous Drawing Robot That Creates Weird Sketches (November 12, 2013): Robo Faber is an autonomous drawing robot that creates weird sketches

Industrial Robots Draw Along With Aritst at Long Distance Art Event (November 2, 2013): Two ABB IRB 4600 Industrial Robots drew along with an artist at the Long Distance Art event.

Gimball Flying Spherical Robot is Built to Handle Numerous Collisions (November 2, 2013): The Gimball is a flying, spherical robot that is built ot handle multiple collisions. The lightweight robot has a cage that protects it when it bashes into obstacles.

DaVinci Surgical Robot Carves a Pumpkin (October 31, 2013): A daVinci surgical robot was used to carve a pumpkin in this video from St. Rita's Medical Center

Astrobotic Developing Robotic System for Planetary Cave Exploration (October 27, 2013): Astrobotic is developing a robotic system for exploring caves on moons and planets. Tyrobot was recently tested in a pit mine on Earth.

Robot Waters Plants, Cooks Sausages and Opens Beer (October 27, 2013): The Cosero robot watered a plant, made sausages and opened a bottle of beer at the RoboCup@Home challenge.

Boston Dynamics Unveils WildCat Robot (October 11, 2013): Boston Dynamics has unviled its WildCat robot, which was designed to run fast on flat terrain.