... The Brown University trial tested a device called the MIT-Manus, specifically designed to help exercise the upper limbs. The patient sits at a table with their upper arm in the device, and is then ...
... called the EATR. It can refuel itself on long journeys by scavenging for organic material - which raises the haunting spectre of a machine consuming corpses on the battlefield. Its inventor, Dr Robert ...
Robots that mimic the behaviour of fish have been developed by Japanese car firm Nissan, who believe the technique can be used in crash avoidance systems. The tiny robots, called ...
... between space colonies and Earth. It first launched as an animated TV series in 1979 - one set in what was called the "Universal Century," in which human-controlled robots were used to protect their pilots ...
... Heriot Watt's entry is one of eight autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) vying for top place in a competition called SAUC-E (Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge Europe). The venue for this ...
... Macquarie Bank. A 2007 government plan for technology policy called for one million industrial robots to be installed by 2025. That will almost certainly not happen. “The recession has set the robot industry ...
... called Stair. Although it wouldn't have impressed the makers of I Robot, it represents the first step on the road to robots. Stair doesn't think, it doesn't walk and it doesn't see. But thanks to the ...
... on a PeopleBot machine from ActivRobots to which they have added a range finder, touch screen and stereo camera. The current prototype is called "Sarah" but when the project begins this will be swapped ...
Researchers in the UK have created a 'robot scientist' which they believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that ...
Top robotics expert professor Noel Sharkey has called for international guidelines to be set for the ethical and safe application of robots before it is too late. Professor Sharkey believes that as the ...
The US space agency is to send its Mars rover Opportunity on a two-year trek to try to reach a crater called Endeavour.
The robot will have to move about 11km to get to its new target - a
distance ...
... the so-called "internet of
things".
Nabaztag can read RFID-tagged books aloud
For Violet's co-founder Rafi Haladjian, the ...
... processing of a brain in a so-called "neural network".
Armed with such a network, the simulated creatures start to explore.
In video demonstrations, a simulated dog learns to jump ...
... a
mass spectrometer, an instrument called TEGA.
But the generous serving sits obstinately on the sieve that should just
prevent pebbles jamming up the works. Even shaking the sieve has no
effect. ...
... But hydrogen takes up huge amounts of volume - any hydrogen
scramjet aircraft would be mainly fuel tank - and is the devil to store
or transport.
DARPA have also been working on so-called "dual ...
... of chemicals using a patented technique called Field Asymmetric
Ion Mass Spectroscopy (FAIMS).
It fingerprints compounds by analysing how their charged forms
move through a gas when subjected ...
... said MDA's ExoMars project manager,
Mike Schmidt.
"It can do a regular turn like you would do in your car, going
around a sweeping bend. And it also allows us what's called crab mode,
in ...
...
Almost 15 minutes into the flight the 690kg Indian mapping satellite called Cartosat 2-A was put into orbit.
It was the most important passenger on board and is really ...
...
Called Microtransat 2008, the challenge was conceived by
academics in Aberystwyth and Toulouse, France, and it is thought to be
the world's first transatlantic race for such boats.
Complete ...
A new robot called Fred is helping to revolutionise the way a Norfolk hospital dispenses medicines.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital pharmacy dispensing robot processes computerised ...
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