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 ...

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. ...