OpenLeg – The Open Source Robot Leg
Well, your robots might do so at least, thanks to OpenLeg, a new open source project for building robot legs. Created by [Joey Byrnes], this started out ...
10 Visions of the Future: Robot planes and a sky-high pool
Ever wondered what it would be like to stay in a futuristic habitat designed for life on Mars? AI Space Factory, the winners of NASA's 3D printed habitat ...
Smarticle Robots Self-Assemble Into a Robophysical System
Smarticles, short for smart active particles, are 5 centimeter-long 3D printed robots designed by Georgia Tech doctoral student Nick Gravish. The small ...
MLB News: Arizona Fall League Testing Robot Umpires
To be clear, the “robots” are actually a pitch-tracking system that triangulates the location of each pitch as it crosses the home-plate area. The device ...
The US Army Wants to Replace Forward Observers With Robots
During World War II, the Canadian army fighting in Europe had a joke: the army consisted of a forward observer with a radio to call in the artillery, while ...
NASA develops autonomous drill to search for life beneath the surface of Mars
One of the challenges of investigating Mars is how to get beneath the planet's surface. Current projects like the Insight lander come equipped with a drill for placing probes into the Martian rock, but earlier this year Insight's drill became stuck in the soil and ...
Strides in AI raise killer-robot fears
Imagine a world where killer robots, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), have the ability to decide who lives and who dies on the basis of deep ...
Asteroid dust could fix global warming, scientists say
WASHINGTON — A group of Swedish researchers believe that a cataclysmic asteroid collision from hundreds of millions of years ago could have the answers to solving climate change. The international study examines the aftermath after a huge asteroid was ...
One in 10 Brits believe their children will be minded by robot babysitters 25 years from now
TOTS will be looked after by robot babysitters 25 years from now, a poll of 2,000 Brits forecast. One in ten reckon android minders will be making ...
China’s giant alien-hunting telescope receives 100 ‘mysterious signals’ from 3billion light years away
CHINA'S giant alien-hunting telescope has received 'mysterious signals' from outer space. Tianyan, the 500 metre telescope, reportedly picked up over 100 radio signals coming from a source three billion light years away. The 500 metre-wide FAST dish is ...