NASA is always looking for innovative ideas. Creating non-traditional robots like those in the movie Interstellar will become more and more common. The new Super Ball Bot is the one of the latest–...
This is pretty clever, a robot system that can fold and twist balloon animals. Can you appreciate how dexterous and sensitive these arms need to be keep the balloon from...
The Avatar III tactical robot is the newest member of the Dayton, Ohio SWAT team. The robot could save lives in a standoff situation. Avatar is pretty cool to watch...
Rovers like Curiosity and Opportunity have done an outstanding job providing a wealth of information about the surface of Mars. But getting around on the bumpy planet can be rather...
Guardbot is an all-terrain robot ball that rolls along like BB-8 (from the new Star Wars). It was originally designed to scope out the surface of Mars, but is now...
DARPA wants to create prosthetic hand systems that move and provide sensation like natural hands. They are providing an open-source simulation environment so researchers can test their ideas. The hope...
Google’s new robot dog Spot is out for a walk and gets kicked multiple times. How fair is that? Spot seems to shake it off and continue climbing hills and...
If the fire’s too hot to handle, send in the firefighting robot! When SAFFiR the robot is ready, he will be able to find the flames and use a fire...
The European Space Agency (ESA) space probe Beagle 2 tried to make a soft landing on the red soil of Mars on Christmas day 2003. No radio contact was ever...
Brave little VolcanoBot 1 has been diving into active volcanos in Hawaii. It doesn’t mind exploring fissures and lava tubes for researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. It descended to...
This would be sensational; a human settlement on the moon! We can build a base station with a robot, a 3D printer and lunar soil. The European Space Agency has...
This Atlas robot hand can do almost anything! It’s the iHY hand (pronounced “eye-high”) developed by iRobot, Harvard, and Yale for the DARPA Robotic Challenge. It has 2 rubber-jointed fingers and...
What do we do with all the military equipment coming home from our withdrawal from the Middle East? Two unmanned K-MAX helicopters served the Marines in Afghanistan well with some...
10 years after leaving Earth, the Rosetta space probe is successfully orbiting the Comet 67P and has sent its robotic lander to the surface. The Philae lander, about the size...
Iran captured a CIA Sentinal surveillance drone in December 2011. The Iranian government reported it commandeered the aircraft in Iranian airspace using its cyber warfare unit. Engineers said they jammed...
ReconRobotics “throwable” robots serve as your “man on the inside” of dangerous situations that can save lives and reduce property damage. They are small and lightweight, quickly deployable, extremely durable, and capable...
NASA needs your help to name a new space robot called the “Free Flying Robot”. They are asking space fans around the world to help name and design a mission...
The Navy is unleashing a new era in advanced ship protection. In the future they will deploy swarms of autonomous boats to defend themselves or attack hostile forces. They want...
71% of the earth’s surface is covered in water, but we know more about Outer Space than our oceans! This will change with many hundreds of the Wave Glider SV3 ocean robots...
The newest version of MIT’s Cheetah is fast, it’s quiet, and it jumps without constraints! It’s come a long way since its first treadmill tests where it was tethered. Now...
The United States Army could slash personnel numbers and toss in more robots instead. Last week at the Army Aviation Symposium, in Arlington, Va., a U.S. Army officer announced that the Army...
Google purchased robot maker Boston Dynamics in December 2013. The company specializes in autonomous animal-like robots like: Big Dog, the Robotic Mule that runs in snow and water and can carry a...