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06/12/13 — Microsoft Research has come up with a clever way to let users actually feel what they're interacting with on a touchscreen. And it doesn't involve complex finger contraptions, or bulky gloves. Instead, the researchers simply installed the display on a robotic mount that moves in response to where and what is being touched, simulating an interaction with what's on-screen. For example, touching something solid and heavy like a brick would provide more resistance than something light like a balloon, where the screen would push back more easily against your finger. And through these simple movements the system could even let…
06/04/13 — Robots could become a lot more 'sensitive' thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies developed by European scientists. Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home. The new capabilities, and a production system for building touch-sensitivity into different robots, will improve the way robots work in unconstrained settings, as well as their ability to communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans. The EU-funded project 'Skin-based technologies and capabilities for safe, autonomous and interactive robots' (ROBOSKIN) developed new sensor technologies and management systems which give robots…
05/30/13 — Inspired by the way plants grow toward light sources, a phenomenon known as phototropism, bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley have created a hydrogel that could be manipulated by light. The new hydrogel, described earlier this month in the journal Nano Letters, could have future applications in the emerging field…
05/23/13 — Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand -and an arm- from engineers at Drexel University as part of a National Science Foundation grant to investigate adding dexterous limbs to the aircrafts. The project, whose subject harkens to…
05/13/13 — With a historic robotic refueling demo ticked off its checklist, NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) put down the hose and picked up the screwdriver and utility knife. This latest round of satellite-servicing tasks, completed in the early morning of May 10, will show how robots could access and further maintain satellites in…
05/09/13 — Scottsdale, AZ, April 29, 2013 – Roboteq, Inc is collaborating on a kickstarter project named RIO (for Raspberry IO) and aimed at creating an intelligent I/O card that stacks over the $35 Raspberry PI Linux Single Board computer. The RIO card includes a rich set of I/O and connectivity features. The…
05/09/13 — ROBOTIS, a leading provider of smart servo DYNAMIXEL & open-source humanoid DARwIn-OP, has recently released the CM-900, a 32-bit ARM Cortex embedded board dedicated to develop robots at $19.90 price tag. Era of Open Hardware In recent years, Arduino has been leading the open hardware movement thanks to its low…
05/02/13 — A group of roboticists at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have developed a touch system that allows a robot to feel its way around various situations. Publishing their results in the International Journal of Robotics Research, the team revealed a new kind of robotic mechanism…
04/24/13 — Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an inexpensive tactile sensor for robotic hands. Called TakkTile, the device takes a tiny barometer and adds a layer of vacuum sealed rubber. The result, when added to a mechanical hand, is a robot that knows what it's…
04/23/13 — As the world's most prestigious honor in the field of robotics, the Joseph F. Engelberger awards are presented to individuals for excellence in robotics technology development, application, education, and leadership. The awards, named after the worldwide “father of robotics” Joseph F. Engelberger, are sponsored annually by the Robotic Industries Association…
04/18/13 — We have everything that we need to make our drinking water clean but we barely think about lakes, oceans, fishpond etc. These bodies of water often get polluted with heavy metals and the entire aquatic ecosystem is affected as a result. Now, a team of designers have developed a robotic…
04/11/13 — Liquid Robotics had released its latest unmanned, autonomous marine robot, dubbed the Wave Glider SV3. The SV3 is the first hybrid wave- and solar-propelled ocean robot, designed to cost-effectively collect and transmit data from areas of the high seas previously too expensive or challenging to reach. It can be used…
04/03/13 — Arxterra, a southern California robotics company, has developed technology for controlling robots via the internet orsmartphones with 3g/4g access. Arxterra will be demonstrating this technology with a terrestrial rover kickstarter mission in the high deserts of California. From over two hundred miles away, the Arxterra mission control and command center (MC3) will execute the…
03/27/13 — Using a combination of theory and experiment, researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots – and potentially also animals – move on and interact with complex granular materials such as sand. Georgia Tech professor Daniel Goldman and postdoctoral fellow Chen Li watch a…
03/20/13 — We have seen our fair share of nature-inspired robots, from a water strider bot that walks on water to a faster-than-Usain-Bolt robotic cheetah that runs on land, and we never cease to be amazed by the technological advances we gain from merely mimicking what already exists in nature. The latest amazing robot we've…
03/13/13 — A team from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center is building a new class of robot to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Robotics Challenge — a human-size robot that moves, not by walking, but on rubberized tracks on the extremities of each of its four…
03/06/13 — Dentsu Inc. has announced the names “Kirobo” and “Mirata” for two humanoid communication robots being developed under the KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, a joint research project being carried out in collaboration with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd., and Toyota Motor…
03/05/13 — MICROMO introduces the new 0824 and 1028 motors from the FAULHABER Group. The new high performance, high precision motors are ideal for a wide variety of applications in such markets as medical devices and robotics. The 0824 and 1028 motors offer high precision speed control and optimal power in the…
02/28/13 — With a new office in Silicon Valley, Maarten Sierhuis, Ph.D., says that cars are the future and he now has an opportunity to change the world. Recently appointed to head the Nissan Research Center Silicon Valley, Sierhuis is a recognized expert in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). His…
02/21/13 — Grishin Robotics, the first venture capital firm in the world that is focused on consumer robotics, announces its investment into the Boston-based hardware incubator Bolt, which helps hardware startups (including robotics and connected devices) with seed capital and an extensive mentorship program. Along with Grishin Robotics, there are another two…
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