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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses
interview by Audrow Nash Health & Medicine August 20, 2016 In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to...
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The future of war: Israel first to deploy fully automated military robots
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun that, beginning in mid-July, it has deployed fully automated self-driving military vehicles to patrol the border with the...
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The first autonomous, entirely soft robot: Powered by a chemical reaction...
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Summary: A team of researchers with expertise in 3-D printing, mechanical...
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MIT spinout NuTonomy just beat Uber to launch the world’s first self-driving...
Uber has taken the plaudits for its audacious plan to deploy driverless cars as soon as this month, but the U.S. giant has been beaten to the punch for actually introducing autonomous vehicles by a far...
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Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots
by Nicola Bezzo, Ankur Mehta, Cagdas Onal, Michael T. Tolley Learn August 25, 2016 Though recent advances in design, fabrication, and programming technologies promise to enable rapid digital...
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In retrospect: Flowers for Algernon
Cliff Robertson as the title character in Charly, the 1968 film adaptation of Flowers for Algernon. By the time science-fiction writer Daniel Keyes died in 2014 at the age of 86, he had lived through...
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Sophisticated, persistent mobile attack against high-value targets on iOS
By Persistent, enterprise-class spyware is an underestimated problem on mobile devices. However, targeted attack scenarios against high-value mobile users are a real threat. Citizen Lab (Munk School of...
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Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensor Detects Toxins With a Mobile Phone
A little over four years ago, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, developed a sensor made from carbon nantoubes for detecting toxic chemicals. So enthusiastic were the researchers...
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Would You Let This Surgical Snake Robot Crawl Inside You?
The roboticist behind the creepy snake robot is back with another snake robot. Only this time it’s a robot that you’re supposed to willingly let slither into your mouth. (For health reasons.) The Flex...
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Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury
by Alex Owen-Hill, Robotiq Inc. Health & Medicine Learn May 27, 2016 What’s the biggest benefit for using collaborative robots? It’s not better efficiency. It’s not the extra hours the robot can...
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The little Arduino robot arm that could!
As its name would suggest, the LittleArm is a mini 3D-printed robot that began as a weekend project. Its creator Gabe Bentz wanted a small arm that was easy to work with, and one that wouldn’t require...
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FIRST Song Parody Competition
FIRST is once again challenging our Community to help us #makeitloud! The #FIRSTParody competition was so awesome last year, we can't wait to see what you come up with this year! If you participated...
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Harvey Mudd took on inequality and now has more women than men in computer...
As US universities struggle to encourage women to study computer science, one small college is having uncommon success attracting them to the field. Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California, has...
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Will Artificial Intelligence Defeat Cancer?
Cancer, the single most feared diagnosis imaginable, is being tackled by some of the biggest companies in the world using the most formidable weapon: à la artificial intelligence. In fact, the...
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Just how dangerous is it to travel at 20% the speed of light?
Breakthrough Starshot is one of the more exciting scientific ideas that has popped up in the past decade, with its promise to deliver hardware to the nearest star in time for many people currently...
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CellRobot wants to let you build a modular robot
Robots. Some people love them, some people hate them, and some people are deeply afraid of them causing a Terminator-like apocalyptic future. No matter what your feelings on them are, everyone can...
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Georgia Tech Bids Farewell to Henrik Christensen
After a decade of service, the School of Interactive Computing KUKA Chair of Robotics Henrik Christensen is leaving Georgia Tech. Friends and colleagues will gather tomorrow to celebrate Christensen,...
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The first autonomous soft robot powered only by a chemical reaction
The first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft 3-D-printed robot (powered only by a chemical reaction) has been demonstrated by a team of Harvard University researchers and described in the journal...
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Researchers are building a robotic Lionfish exterminator
We joke around a lot about bringing about a horrific robot apocalypse, but let's get real: sometimes, building a killer robot is just the right thing to do. Well, at least when those robots are being...
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Next Big Future: Thought-Controlled Nanoscale DNA Robots in a Living Host
Ido Bachelet and his team have made a new type of brain-machine interface enabling a human operator to control nanometer-size robots inside a living animal by brain activity. Recorded EEG patterns are...
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