TO ADD to the robots that can crawl over land, fly through air and swim underwater comes one that can swim through sand. Such robots could help find...
Surgical Tube Robot Thursday, June 17th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon A SURGICAL robot that can change its shape to skirt safely around vital organs and navigate inside arteries could one day...
Spanish Students Aim for the Moon Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon PicoRover – pico for picogram because it weighs less than 1kg, and rover because it is a lunar explorer – employs a...
Robots have replaced humans on assembly lines, battlefields, space missions and rescue operations. Now how about doing something useful, like sitting...
ROPID: Speedy Moves and Cute Design Sunday, November 29th, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Tomotaka Takahashi from Kyoto University, Japan, has recently developed this tiny robot, which responds to voice commands...
Robotic Hands Modeled on Real Joints Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 - Janice Karin Researchers at Columbia University in New York City are working on new robotic hands modeled after real human hands. Instead...
Robot With Bones Moves Like A Human Monday, September 21st, 2009 - Anuradha Menon The ECCEROBOT project is a spin-off of the CRONOS project conducted at the University of Essex. The goal of this project was...