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IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Robert Wood |
Fly, Robot Fly Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly   |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sandra Upson |
Behold the Flying Robots Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009 |
Slideshow: Robots Gone Wild Creatures from across the animal kingdom offer design principles to make robots more useful, engaging, and lifelike |
National Defense
April 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Landing Gear Prototypes for Robotic Birds Take Off The Defense Department is pursuing the development of bird-like and insect-sized flying robots to give troops more overhead surveillance options in future conflicts. |
National Defense
November 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Look, It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's an Avian Robot To conduct surveillance missions while on patrol in Afghanistan, soldiers and marines hand-launch toy model-sized airplanes called the Raven. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
3D printing allows soft robots to rise up Although they may not be taking over the world any time soon, a 3D printed soft robot mimicking the flexible body of an invertebrate has been manufactured by a group of scientists in the US. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Lora G. Weiss |
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Susan Hassler |
Winged Victory: Fly-Size Wing Flapper Lifts Off The hope is to build robotic flies that could work in any situation in which it would be better or safer to send them instead of humans. |
Technology Research News
February 12, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Butterflies offer lessons for robots Researchers from Oxford University in England have devised a method of studying the way butterflies fly, and their initial results show that the insects have many more tricks of flight than they get credit for. |
National Defense
July 2011
Eric Beidel |
Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders. |
Technology Research News
February 23, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Humanoid robots walk naturally There's a reason most movie robots have wheels in place of legs or are powered by an embedded human. Making machines walk on two legs is exceedingly difficult. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Anthony Colozza |
Fly Like A Bird Flapping wings could revolutionize aircraft design. |
Popular Mechanics
September 29, 2008
Erik Sofge |
MIT Submarine Is Most Autonomous Robot Ocean Researcher Yet On the heels of successful bot building by land and air, the all-new Odyssey IV explores the ocean's depths on its own while fighting strong currents and gathering crucial data. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2013
Laura Howes |
Soft robots take a leap forward It might not be able to leap buildings in a single bound but the latest soft robot to escape George Whitesides' lab is a jumper rather than a crawler and can jump at least 30 times its body height. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Rafal Zbikowski |
Fly like a Fly The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster. Several groups have succeeded in building electronic sensors that mimic the fly's vision and other flight control apparatus. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Lucas Laursen |
Robot to Human: "Trust Me" Rescue robots respond to operator stress levels |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Cell-powered robots swim like sperm Scientists in the US have combined a synthetic polymer with living heart cells to make a tiny robot that swims by undulating its tail, in a similar way to sperm. |
National Defense
May 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
iRobis Infuses Robots with Cognition The digital battlefield of the future could be closer than we anticipated, as scientists continue to make headway in the design and development of autonomous robots. |
Popular Mechanics
August 8, 2007
Erik Sofge |
Top 3 Robots Coming Soon to the Battlefield: Live @ DARPATech Blind walkers, backpack-able Navy UAVs, a serious Army hover machine: Just a couple standouts from military 'bot central for 2007. Little Dog... MAV: Micro Air Vehicle... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2006
Theberge & Dudek |
Gone Swimmin' An amphibious robot explores aquatic environments and could help save coral reefs, too. |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Students Hope Robot Snakes Slither Out of Lab A family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes have potential use in search-and-rescue and surveillance missions. |
Wired
May 2002
Michael Behar |
The New Mobile Infantry Battle-ready robots are rolling out of the research lab and into harm's way... |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2006
Tim Scannell |
Funding Robotics in The War Years Robots are being groomed to take an increasingly active role in military and Homeland Security operations. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
We're Doomed: Robots Can Now Learn To Adapt To Injuries A new study published today in Nature explains how robots can use a sort of "evolutionary algorithm" to learn new ways of operating after being injured, according to the MIT Technology Review. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
Goldman et al. |
March of the SandBots A new generation of legged robots will navigate the world's trickiest terrain |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007
Erik Sofge |
Inside Robina, Toyota's Tourguide Who Teaches Fellow Robots Robina's true mission is to help gather data that could benefit robots still in development at Toyota. |
Popular Mechanics
February 26, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Turning Disabled Into Gamers, MIT Aims to Spread Robot Rehab One study of stroke victims indicated that robot therapy accelerated recovery and patients continued to improve even after the therapy was over. |
Popular Mechanics
November 6, 2007
Erik Sofge |
How I Survived a Zero-G Robot Operating Room: Extreme Surgeon Human and robot surgeons compete to see who can perform better in zero gravity. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows. |
Popular Mechanics
September 30, 2008
Kevin Hall |
5 Homemade Robots That Offer Hope for DIY Geeks (With Video) Ever wanted to build your own bot but didn't think you had the know-how? Take hope and read about average people who built geeky items ranging from automated furniture to a walking webcam. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
The Future is Now for the Robot Revolution The next wave of robots will be remarkably human in appearance and function. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Gregory Mone |
Getting a Grip: Building the Ultimate Robotic Hand To do real work in our offices and homes, to fetch our staplers or clean up our rooms, robots are going to have to master their hands. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Brian Bremner |
Service Robots: Rise of the Machines (Again) U.S. companies chase the fast-growing market for service bots |
Geotimes
August 2003
Tim Palucka |
Robot maps coal mine in 3-D In July 2002, the Quecreek mine accident in Pennsylvania revealed the deficiencies of outdated 2-D mine maps. If a new 3-D mapping robot now deployed emerges at the other end of a Pennsylvania coal mine, it will be a new era for mapping the underground world. |
Technology Research News
April 7, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Robot guided by its voice Researchers generally help robots navigate by giving them the sense of sight. A simpler approach is based on another human trait: listening to the sound of one's own voice. It also helps if the walls have ears. |
Wired
September 2000 |
At Home With The Androids Robosapiens... SIG... DB... Face Robot... Personal Robot R100... Jack... Robonaut... |
Popular Mechanics
April 2, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
Craig Ferguson's New Mythbuster Robot Sidekick: Exclusive Pics In his five-year tenure as host of The Late Late Show on CBS, Craig Ferguson has never had a band or a sidekick. |
National Defense
November 2012
Eric Beidel |
Cheetah Robot Breaks Another Record Developed by Boston Dynamics on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the robot, called Cheetah, has reached a peak speed of 28.3 mph for a 20-meter split. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The Uncertain Future For Social Robots Humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction. Today, experts caution against a more insidious threat: We might like living with them too much. |
Wired
September 2000
Paul Boutin |
The Next Step Inside the MIT Leg Lab, M2 is learning to walk. On June 16 the humanoid robot - one of the world's most advanced - successfully put its right foot forward, a single stride that marks a milestone in robotic evolution... |
Technology Research News
November 19, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Segway robot opens doors Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have crossed a robotic arm with the bottom half of a Segway to make a robot named Cardea that can traverse hallways and open doors. |
National Defense
July 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Stephen Cass |
Getting Vexed Vex Robotics Starter Kit: A robot kit that's fun as well as functional. While the kit's target audience is high school kids in classroom and lab settings, it is versatile enough to appeal to a much wider audience. |
National Defense
March 2008
Stew Magnuson |
For Now, Lethal Robots Not Likely to Run on Auto-Pilot Bart Everett, technical director for robots at the Navy's space and naval warfare systems center, acknowledged that the military isn't ready for the next generation of mechanized soldiers. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding. |
PC Magazine
April 5, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
A Soldier's Four-Legged Friend What would a robotic mule be good for? Plenty, in the eyes of developers at Boston Dynamics. |
