Bilge Mutlu, a robotics researcher from Carnegie Mellon University, is conducting experiments in order to humanize robots. The parameters currently being researched include cooperation, “social gaze”, and the incorporation of robots in organizations. One of the main robots used in ...

The European Feelix Growing project creates robots that can recognize human emotions. The project implements software that gives robots the power to understand how a person is feeling based on feedback from cameras and sensors. Upon looking at a human’s ...

The Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab in Japan has invented an amphibious snake-like robot called “ACM-R5”. The amphibious robot’s form is quite similar to that of a living sea snake, as it allows both swimming and crawling. Like other snake-inspired robots, the ...

A team of scientists from the department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel have developed an algorithm which could be employed in the practice of utilizing robots in a variety of military missions. This project, which has been ...

Seagliders are the result of a collaborative effort between the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the university’s School of Oceanography. These autonomous underwater vehicles are used to gather valuable information such as conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data at a ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with scientists at Pennsylvania State University, have developed robots called SnoMotes. The robots were recently unveiled at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Pasadena, on May 23rd. ...

Daan Hobbelen, a PhD student at TU Delft in the Netherlands, has developed a revolutionary walking robot named Flame. Based on the principles of human walking, Flame is considered to be one of the most advanced robots of its kind, ...

Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL, one of the two Ecoles Polytechniques Federales in Switzerland, have developed a grasshopper-inspired jumping robot. The team unveiled the new robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which ...

Researchers at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab at Case Western Reserve University have developed the Whegs series robots, consisting of Whegs robots, mini-Whegs, and climbing mini-Whegs. These robots use both wheels and legs, allowing them to move at a relatively ...

The uBot-5 is a robot which was recently designed and built at the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The uBot-5 can perform many useful tasks that entail the mobile manipulation of objects- including acquiring, transporting, ...