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NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars
NASA announced this afternoon that it plans to launch a tiny, four-pound, autonomous helicopter along with its 2020 rover mission. And if you think this sounds relatively cool, well: You’re right. The...
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Boston Dynamics’ Robots Are on the Move
Autonomous robotic dogs and log jumping robotic men are not two characters out of science fiction – they’re Boston Dynamics’ flagship robots. The post Boston Dynamics’ Robots Are on the Move appeared...
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Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than...
Automated robots now have the tools to grow imitation, simplified human organs out of stem cells. Thankfully, we weren’t transported to a sci-fi dystopia where the machines have risen up and started to...
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This All-Terrain Robot “Teaches” Itself to Walk in a Revolutionary Way
If it wasn’t for its lack of a head, a robot from a University of Oslo research group would seem alarmingly life-like as it stumbles across the floor. Named DyRET, this quadruped teaches itself how to...
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New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full...
If there’s one thing that scientists absolutely should be working on, it’s a self-regenerating robo-Deadpool or the eerily-fluid T-1000 Terminator. Thankfully, a team of scientists just took an...
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Watch These Animal-Inspired Robots Find Their Footing
Want a robot that can navigate the world as easily as an animal? Then you have to design it to move the same way an animal does. This week, students enrolled in the University of Southern California’s...
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Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals
It’s a classic thought experiment: If you put a bunch of tiny little jumping bean-like robots in a room together, will they just run into each other? Or will they figure out how to organize? By...
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These Hyper-Sensitive Fibers Might Stand In As Robot Nerves
Sure, some robots may run better than us, and they can dive deep underwater without ever needing to come up for air. But they don’t have our sense of touch—at least, for now. Engineers at the Ecole...
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The Cyborgs Are Here: Researchers Put Living Cells In A Robotic Finger
The line between humans and machines is blurring. Researchers from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science have now created a biohybrid robot — a robotic device that incorporates living...
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This Aerial Robot Can Change Its Shape Mid-Flight
When you need a model for how to make something that flies, there’s no need to look to science fiction. Nature’s got plenty of examples. A pretty good one? Birds. Flying is kind of their thing (for...
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There’s Now A Computer Designed Specifically for Programming Intelligent Robots
It just got way easier to build “smart” robots. Each year, the who’s who of the tech world gathers at Computex 2018, an information and communications technology showcase in Taiwan. On Sunday, Jensen...
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This Robot Is Here to Draw Your Blood
Your blood is like the Cliffs Notes to your health. It can tell a doctor everything from how well your organs are working to whether you need to add more iron to your diet. So it’s no surprise that...
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This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”
ROBOTIC HIGH FIVE. On Monday, researchers at OpenAI, the nonprofit AI research company co-founded by Elon Musk, introduced Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robotic hand. According to the...
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Exoskeletons are About to Walk Ford’s Factory Floors
HALF MAN, HALF MACHINE. Full-blown automation may be the future of manufacturing, but we’re not there yet. While some machines have taken over the more painstaking tasks on the factory floor, humans...
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Agile Soft Robot Spiders Could Soon Aid Internal Medical Procedures
New materials from Harvard’s Wyss institute could lead us to soft robots, like this spider, which could one day be used in medical procedures. The post Agile Soft Robot Spiders Could Soon Aid Internal...
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