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• Unnamed Humanoid “UH” from Iowa State Learns To Learn

  Iowa State University’s Developmental Robotics Lab is trying to find it out how the robot works in the same way like a 2 year old does by attempting to break the stuff. They u...

• Robotic Snake – SnakeBots in the Spotlight

  Over the years, several models of robotic snakes have been developed by the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer. Their recent robotic snakes are...

• Development of Adaptive Behavior in Robots

  There is a new experiment done by some researchers. They developed small, mobile robots that are controlled by onboard neural networks capable of learning. Multiple experime...

• Pneumatic Powered Robot Walks with Oxygen-Tubing Legs

  A robot that walks with 24 hospital oxygen-tubing legs was built by Monica Anderson and has won two first prizes, Best demo and best presentation. This robot’s leg is cont...

• Japan Exposed Their Supermodel Robot HRP-4C

  Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology brought to the public their latest supermodel robot, HRP-4C. HRP-4C may be not as graceful as Cin...

• DARPA Wants A Bigger BigDog

  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has just awarded a $32 million dollar contract to Boston Dynamics to create a bigger Bigdog. Last year, we met Boston D...

• Wall Climbing Robots Do More by Amir Shapiro

  In the previous article, we featured a wall climbing robot that's able to climb up a freely configurable wall unassisted. But as I did further research on these types of robots,...

• Goodbye Spirit. Go Opportunity!

  Just recently, NASA made their official announcement to leave NASA's Mars Rover Spirit, after painstakingly doing everything to pull her up from the sand. Remember Spirit? no...

• Bioloid, An Autonomous Climbing Robot

  If you think this is another kid's toy robot, think again and watch the videos below to see how a student assembled this kind of robot that accurately finds its way to climb up ...

• Nano-Robotic Arm Places Atoms and Molecules with 100% Accuracy and Precision

  Manufactured products are basically made of atoms, and structures of these products depend on how the atoms are arranged. For example, if one rearranges atoms in coal, it will f...

• Japanese Fish Robots Teach Children About Marine Life

  A marine biologist and ecologist came up with the idea of creating miniature marine life robots in order to broaden the learning of school children about sea life. Japan is f...