Ocean Farm Technologies, Inc. of Searsmont, Maine, has developed self-propelled spherical aquaculture cages suitable for use in rough, open ocean conditions and designed to support a wide variety of aquatic species. The cages operate when both fully or partially submerged, ...

Rhodri Armour, a Ph. D. student at the University of Bath, has created a new robot capable of both rolling and jumping, which allows for greater mobility over the widest variety of terrain types. Inspired by the way grasshoppers store ...

Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor at Tsukuba University, Tokyo, has recently introduced a new robot suit, called the “Hybrid Assistive Limb.” The suit was designed for paralyzed people in order to help them walk again by detecting their next move and ...

Researchers at the Hybrid Systems Laboratory at Stanford University have developed an autonomous multiple vehicle “testbed” designed to demonstrate new methods of multi-agent control systems. The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC) consists of six quad rotor ...

Researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables helicopters to learn aerial tricks by watching other helicopters perform the stunts first. Their helicopters were able to replicate complex five minute routines as ...

Michael McBeath, a psychology professor specializing in perception at Arizona State University (ASU), collaborated with Thomas Sugar, an engineering professor and robotics researcher at ASU’s Polytechnic campus, in developing a ground-ball-fielding robot named “Catchbot.” In order to create this robot, ...

The Lunar Rover Initiative – a group of researchers from the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, has recently developed a moon rover named Scarab. Scarab’s main mission is to investigate polar craters of the moon which might ...

MIT researchers have designed an underwater robotic craft dubbed Odyssey IV. This new, small, and inexpensive vehicle is capable of hovering in place much like a helicopter. In addition, it can move in a speed of up to two meters ...

iRobot Corporation of Bedford, Massachusetts released a slimmed down and affordable robot capable of climbing stairs and evaluating potential dangers faced by law enforcement, firemen, and other public safety officials. Based on its military robot, the PackBot, the Negotiator robot ...

Researchers at Boston Engineering Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts and Olin College of Needham, Massachusetts are developing a swimming robot based on the bluefin tuna for the United States Navy. Expected to run more than three times longer than traditional propeller-driven ...