San Francisco-based company Anki has started selling its palm-sized robot named Cozmo. It will be available for $180. Cozmo is charming, a bit mischievous, and unpredictable. He recognizes and remembers you. He…
Category: Robots
Roboats – MIT to Test Self-driving Boats in Amsterdam
As self-driving cars hit the road, autonomous boats are entering Amsterdam’s canals. The ‘roboat’ project — a research collaboration between MIT and AMS, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions — seeks…
Safe Swarm Robotics: Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding
When roboticists create behaviors for teams of robots, they first build algorithms that focus on the intended task. Then they wrap safety behaviors around those primary algorithms to keep the machines from…
Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, demonstrated a bioinspired micro-robot capable of mimicking caterpillar gaits in natural scale. The 15-millimeter long…
BioHybrid Robots: Researchers build a crawling robot from Sea Slug parts and a 3-D printed body
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build “biohybrid” robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach. A muscle…