The world of Robotics.
11/05/2015
The Sun has stripped away Mars' atmosphere, causing global climate change Mars' upper atmosphere is slowly leaking out into the cosmos, according to new data gathered from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The cause of this great escape is our Sun; solar winds from the star...
10/31/2015
Video Friday: Motorcycle Robot, Paper Plane Drone, and R2-D2 Fridge Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
05/22/2015
Oculus Rift-Based System Brings True Immersion to Telepresence Robots "You feel like you are transported somewhere else in the real world"
03/21/2015
Way too ahead of its time.
DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s From 1983 to 1993 DARPA spent over $1 billion on a program called the Strategic Computing Initiative. The agency's goal was to push the boundaries of computers, artificial intelligence, and robotics to build something that, in hindsight, looks strikingly similar to the dystopian future of the Termin…
03/07/2015
This is Beauty.
IMAX's New Laser Projectors Make Me Wish I Lived In a Movie Theater Surround sound and 4K TVs are great for watching movies at home, but there's still nothing like sitting in front of a gigantic screen in an IMAX theater. I recently got an exclusive first look at the company's next-generation digital laser projectors, and I walked away from the experience wanting to…
03/05/2015
Pleurobot Is an Eerily Lifelike Robotic Salamander - IEEE Spectrum This is as close to a salamander robot as we can possibly get
03/05/2015
NASA's Super Ball Bot Could Be the Best Design for Planetary Exploration - IEEE Spectrum It’s almost certainly not what you picture when you think of a robot, much less a robot that’s intended to head into space
02/24/2015
Hands-On with Avegant's Virtual Retinal Display Prototype - Tested.com A new head-mounted display that uses DLP micro-mirror technology to project and reflect high-resolution images into your eyes. The result is a stereoscopic image with almost no pixelation and an incredibly high fill factor--meaning no screen door effect. In fact, you can't even see the pixels becaus…
02/10/2015
This tiny wearable robot can zip your jacket for you DARPA's Atlas robot can respond to disasters, and the US Navy's SAFFiR can put out fires, but what about robots that can perform the necessary but mundane tasks of daily life? MIT's Personal...
02/10/2015
A bouncy ball drone wants to search and rescue without cutting off anyone's face by accident We've seen some incredible progress recently when it comes to the sense and avoid technology that lets drones navigate around obstacles. This is the opposite.
02/10/2015
Watch Google’s New Small Dog Robot Take A Kicking And Keep On Ticking Google purchased Boston Dynamics last year, which means it now owns the company's ongoing robotics projects, including BigDog. Today, the Google subsidiary..