Robotics
While a James Cameron-backed asteroid mining company might have an abundance of money and imagination, the actual technology to mine asteroids doesn’t exist… yet.
The world’s best and brightest created the Internet, cracked the human genome and landed machines on Mars. Also, someone created a robotic butt.
What a team of researchers developed could change how we test drugs forever, not to mention provide a kind of periodic table for neurons in the brain — a detailed map of which neurons do what and how they all interact.
Unlike most butlers, HERB is equipped with a spinning laser that allows it to create three-dimensional models of the world around it. Also, it knows how to work a microwave.
Robots are natural candidates for helping people with disabilities, mainly because they have to simulate senses that most of us take for granted.
In the future, we’ll start to see robots with nobody at the controls. Who’s to blame when they destroy our property or physically harm us?
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a prime candidate in the search for life. The problem? All of its liquid water is hidden under a huge icy crust.
Last week, NASA announced the formation of the Mars Program Planning Group. The hope is to get another robotic rover on the surface of the Mars by as early as 2018, all with the ultimate goal of sending a human to the planet sometime in the 2030s. But what will NASA’s future rovers look like?
Yesterday, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new contest: create a humanoid robot that can navigate a world made for humans. We take a look at five of them and examine how close they are to fitting the prize-winning specifications.
ECCEROBOT is an anthropomimetic robot. In other words, it’s got lots of synthetic human parts like bones, muscles and tendons.
It’s hard to watch these robotic legs — courtesy of Meka Robotics and the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas, Austin — and not think about the sprinting T-1000 from Terminator 2.
