TitanArm already took home silver in a competition for senior projects at the University of Pennsylvania, and now the team behind it is visiting Orlando to compete in the Intel-sponsored Cornell Cup for embedded design. We stopped by the showroom …
Technologists have been drawing inspiration from the insect world for a long time. And folks working on robotics really seem to love their creepy-crawlies and buzzing arthropods. Researchers at the University of Illinois are looking to our eight-l…
The verdict’s still out on whether or not androids dream of electric sheep. But their ability to feel? Well, that’s about to approach levels of human sensitivity. We’re of course talking about the sense of touch, not emotions. And thanks to work o…
We obviously love our gadgets around here. But, as worked up as we get for things with octa-core processors and 4K displays, what really excites us about technology is its ability to improve people’s lives. And while having an endless repository of i…
The latest seafaring robot from Liquid Robotics got an unveiling this morning. Dubbed the Wave Glider SV3, the mobile, amphibious robot is targeted at the (thoroughly unexciting) usual suspects: big oil, the government, and scientific researchers. Ap…
While some mind-control technologies may not amount to much more than gimmicks, there’s also plenty of serious research being done in the field — particularly when it comes to artificial limbs. So far, the majority of that work has focused on roboti…
Remember those robotic camera rigs Reuters cooked up for the Olympic games? They won’t be alone — the AFP have lined the games with their own remote mounts. Traditionally, aerial shots are captured by brave, well harnessed photographers — but the A…
Remember those robotic camera rigs Reuters cooked up for the Olympic games? They won’t be alone — the AFP have lined the games with their own remote mounts. Traditionally, aerial shots are captured by brave, well harnessed photographers — but the A…
We’ve all seen a Roomba at one point or another, be it picking up debris around our feet in a friend’s living room or chauffeuring a courageous kitty for an entertaining clip on YouTube. Likely far less familiar, however, is iRobot’s gadget-filled Ma…
The Phoenix Frankenprogram to harvest the corpses of expired satellites and cobble together new ones seemed like one of DARPA’s more daft ideas, but this one has actually kicked off its first phase of development. The plan is to first launch a servic…
