Meet RoboBees, tiny micro-robots with dragonfly-like wings that beat 120 times a second.
Robotics
FIRST Robotics Competition: Students Teaching Robots, and Vice Versa
Segway inventor Dean Kamen’s annual contest inspires high-school students to build some spectacular robotic athletes.
WATCH: Robot Swarms of the Future (Because Sometimes It Takes a Village)
What happens when you put 40 tiny robots in a room and let them go nuts?
WATCH: Robotic Jellyfish ‘Cyro’ Could Work for Navy, Come After You
Are we ready for Cyro, a jellyfish-like robot funded by the U.S. Navy for potential future underwater surveillance?
Finally, a Robot Chimp that Turns into a Tank
We’re starting to see some of the DARPA Robotics Challenge’s contenders take shape: Carnegie Mellon just announced that it’s building an ape-like robot, but with tank treads undergirding all four limbs.
Finally, a Robotic Dog That Can Toss Cinder Blocks Like They’re Beanbags
And here we have the latest BigDog video, wherein Boston Dynamics has outfitted man’s best friend with the ability to whip cinder blocks around.
Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Human Rights Group Thinks So
As if deploying drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — on the battlefield wasn’t controversial enough, here’s an even more disturbing question: Should we allow weapon-wielding robots that can “think” for themselves to attack people?
Finally, Humans Can Hang Out with Rats by Using Virtual Reality and Robotics
Science, you’re kind of crazy — especially when you’re doing stuff like this.
Watch: Guy Uses Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg to Climb 103-Story Chicago Skyscraper
This is definitely from the future: a guy, using the power of his mind, literally, to control a bionic leg and climb a skyscraper in Chicago — all 103 floors.
Watch: Humanlike DARPA Robot Climbs and Leaps from Obstacles with Mad Skills
Picture an eerily human-like tangle of metal, wiring and lights, cables dangling from somewhere above like puppet strings. Imagine it springing to life, lifting a long, lanky leg that bends 180 degrees at the hips.
Meet X1, the Exoskeletal Robot Suit that Could Make Astronauts Super-Strong
When you read about robotics and human assistance devices, the inception-to-commercial-reality arrow usually points from military or space-based research back to civilian applications, say in the health industry. Infrared ear …
Take Kinect, Add Robotics, Strap to a Human and Presto — Automatic Building Mapper!
Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking out small squadrons of …
