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Caterbot or Robatapillar? Scientists create bug-like robot using origami
May 14, 2024
PRINCETON, N.J. — Scientists have taken a cue from nature’s fuzziest insects, creating a caterpillar-like robot that can bend and...
XTEND Secures $40Mn to Redefine Robotics With AI-Power
May 09, 2024
XTEND, the developer of XOS, an AI-driven operating system that is revolutionizing the way humans interact with drones and robots, has...
Mobilicom and Mistral Form Strategic Partnership
Feb 22, 2023
Mobilicom Limited a provider of cybersecurity and robust solutions for drones and robotics, announced it has entered a strategic...
Meta gave a sneak peek of one of its first VR wearables
Nov 21, 2021
In the novel-turned-movie Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, the protagonist escapes to an online realm aptly called OASIS. Instrumental to...
Omnidirectional mobile robot has just two moving parts
Oct 23, 2016
More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly...
Internally coupled ears enable directional hearing in animals
Feb 29, 2016
An air-filled cavity connects the eardrums of the two ears of this lizzard. In this “tunnel through the head” external and...
Turing Robotics Drops Android And Sets Up Shop In Finland Amid Global Security Concerns
Feb 23, 2016
California-based secure smartphone manufacturer Turing Robotics Industriesannounced that it will move manufacturing and its new global...
Robotic Taster Can ID Authentic Thai Food
Dec 16, 2014
Good Thai food is great, but bad Thai food can be terrible. Hence the need for a robotic food taster. What? You don’t have one? Then you...
Adaption of ‘The Metamorphosis’ Trades Roach for Robot
Dec 16, 2014
French actress Irene Jacob performs with android Repliee S1 in an adaption of Franz Kafka’s seminal work The Metamorphosis. Atlas...
Super ‘Sticky’ Geckskin Adhesive Coming Soon
Dec 09, 2014
Geckskin is able to stick to anything that’s vaguely smooth. Newly established Makira Natural Park is now Madagascar’s largest...