More than 1 million Americans require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury, disease and advanced age. Robots could potentially help, but cloth and the human body are complex. To…
Category: Robots
Robot Designed to Defend Factories Against Cyberthreats
Researchers at Georgia Tech built the “HoneyBot” to lure hackers into thinking they had taken control of a robot, but instead the robot gathers valuable information about the bad actors, helping businesses…
Robot takes cues from spider that can walk and roll
Esslingen, Germany-based Festo has come up with the BionicWheelBot, a walk-and-roll robot with strong spider vibes. The BionicWheelBot is inspired by the flic-flac spider. The flic-flac spider can walk like other spiders. It…
‘SoFi’: Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs
This month scientists published rare footage of one of the Arctic’s most elusive sharks. The findings demonstrate that, even with many technological advances in recent years, it remains a challenging task to…
Jumping spiders and flying bees: The rise of bio inspired microrobots
Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead…