 msnbc.com (blog) | Robotic 'fish' take to seas to catch pollution sooner msnbc.com (blog) By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com In a bid to track sea pollution by mimicking how fish navigate and work together, scientists on Tuesday moved their robotic fish from the lab to the sea. The technology could reduce the time it takes to detect a pollutant ... |
 AZoRobotics | First Humanoid Robot That Works Side by Side With People Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) — The first robots reached the world of industry over 60 years ago. Since then, for security reasons, they have performed their work isolated in cages, and that prevented collaboration between workers and machines. Tecnalia Brings First Humanoid Robot to European Industry |
 Zee News | Sticky feet could help robots land on asteroids Daily News & Analysis A new biologically inspired robot could one day crawl over the surface of an asteroid or Mars and gather samples for study using lots of tiny, mechanical “toes. Asteroids have a weak gravitional pull, which makes it difficult for a robot probe to drive ... Sticky Feet Help Robots Land on Asteroids |
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Selects Autodesk Digital Prototyping Software to ... MarketWatch (press release) As a respected pioneer in Japan's robotics industry, KHI develops and manufactures industry-leading, high-performance industrial robots to enable more efficient productivity, more consistent quality, and greater savings in automation and labor. |
 Inquirer | Robot fish might appear in European harbours Inquirer By Auld Salt The BBC reports that the Shoal Consortium is running trials of robotic fish to detect pollution in Spanish ports. Funded by the European Union, the trials are designed to find out if the autonomous swimming machines can detect harbour ... Robotic fish to patrol for pollution in harbours Intelligent Robotic Fish Developed That Can Detect Pollution Robotic fish shoal sniffs out pollution in harbours |
A robot learns how to tidy up after you Phys.Org (Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes. Researchers in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab have trained a robot to survey a room, identify all the objects, figure out where they belong and put them away. |
Liquid Robotics launches swarm of ocean-patrolling robots CNNMoney It ends with Liquid Robotics, a Sunnyvale, Calif., company with $22 million from investors, 80 employees and customers like BP Oil and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Liquid Robotics operates a fleet of wave-propelled, solar-powered ... |
 Kansas City Star | Farm robots are ready to do hard labor — and technical tasks Kansas City Star By JEREMY BERNFELD Brent Ware, a member of the robotics team at Kansas State University, shows a planting robot that won a national competition. In the “Star Wars” movies, moisture farmers on dry planets like Tattoine use droids to help with the ... Take Me To Your Fields: Robots On The Farm |
 CrazyEngineers VoiCE | Clothbot, the Fabric-Gripping, Pants-Climbing Robot PC Magazine By Damon Poeter Chinese roboticists have built a small, fabric-clutching robot that pulls itself up pants and shirts by creating wrinkles with its pair of gripper wheels, according to the IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog. Video of the little bot doing its ... Juggling Robot Does Tricks, Is Cooler Than Your Typical Clown One-armed robot juggles two balls in a spectacular manner Wrinkle-traveling Clothbot makes its IEEE debut (w/ Video) |
Ocean Robots Embark on Final Stage of Pacific Crossing (PacX) Collecting ... MarketWatch (press release) SUNNYVALE, CA and KAMUELA, HI, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Liquid Robotics(R), an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider(R), the first wave-powered, autonomous marine robot, today launched the PacX Wave Gliders from ... |