Category "Misc News"

You’ve seen lots of land robots run and creep around, and water robots swim. Now it’s time to see what amphibious robots can do! A lot of research has gone...

This is no surprise – Japan will be the first to debut robotic hotel staff. These life-like androids will greet guests, carry luggage and clean rooms. Would you like staying...

How can you create a strong spider web with a 3D printer? See how a team of students in China did it. Their robotic arm uses 4 print heads to...

In an emergency search and rescue, it would be invaluable for a vehicle to both fly and crawl around for maximum efficiency. Why not copy nature and mimic the vampire...

This Monster robot with snake legs looks somewhat deadly. It’s strong and crawls quite well over and through debris, much like a spider. Researchers hope to use it for search...

We’d like to pay tribute to a very talented artist and designer, Rober Kinoshita, who died last month at age 100. He will be remembered as the designer of three...

Sepios isn’t the first robotic fish out there, but it’s a work of art gracefully swimming through the water and sea grass. Other robotic fish are not extremely flexible and...

It was inevitable; robots are now taking airplane flights with you! Athena became the first paying airline passenger on a Lufthansa flight from LAX to Germany. She’s 6-2 and looks...

Will a robot or software program be imprisoned if it commits a crime? What if a robot purchases illegal items and has them sent to you. Are you liable? Go to...

There are so many incredible choices for tech gifts this year . . . In case you hadn’t noticed, drones and home robot gadgets are everywhere. The prices have been...

Are you ready to face the reality that many robots are more intelligent and capable than you are? Do you realize how fast they are evolving; how rapidly we are...

Google believes it’s possible to create a ring of high altitude balloons around the earth that will provide internet access to the whole world below. There are many who think...

Another restaurant in China is using robots to serve their food. People love them, especially the kids, and come just for the experience. The robots can speak 40 short simple...

Have you ever been alone in a room and felt like someone else was there? Maybe a ghost? This feeling is referred to as “feeling of a presence” or FoP. And...

Like to know where can you find Robot Security Patrols? Do you think they’re a good idea or does this kind of future frighten you? The Knightscope K5 Sentry robot...

Where can you find robot bartenders to pour your drinks? Try the most high tech cruise liner ever built, Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas. The Bionic Bar has a...

Disney has developed a new method to remotely control puppets without the use of motors. The pair of robot arms shown in the picture and video below are connected only by flexible...

When looking for victims at a disaster site or when exploring desert regions, it is not good to use a robot that will get stuck in the sand. During a 2011 archeological...

Researchers and students are getting very creative in their quest to find ways to move robots over tough and rugged terrain. Many are using animals to model this behavior. It's...

This small octopus is amazing. It swims with flexible arms and a new silicone web at up to 180 mm/sec (7 in/sec). The Greek scientists have done a lot of...

Harvard University researchers have built tiny flying robots that can pollinate crops instead of real bees! Honeybees, which pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat, have been dying at unprecedented rates...

Are you ready for 3D printed food? Maybe chicken, pizza or ravioli extruded from the nozzle of a printer? Served by your personal robot? In the future, not only will...

Hitchbot will rely on the kindness of strangers as it hitchhikes across Canada this summer. He'll be traveling 6,000 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. Will you pick...