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Mechanical Engineers Design Rescue Robots by Studying Snakes’ Frictional Properties

A group of mechanical engineers had conducted a study on the incredible frictional properties of snake locomotion, in order to construct more dynamic rescue robots.

2 Mar 2012

Drexel Researchers to Create Robotic Dinosaurs Using 3-D Printing

Drexel University researchers are using next-generation technologies in three-dimensional printing for studying ancient life. For the first time, scale models of real fossils will be used in order to test hypotheses about how prehistoric animals and dinosaurs lived and moved during their time.

22 Feb 2012

New System Enables Robots to Construct Environmental Mapping without Human Interference

Advances in robots will soon allow it to function without any virtual human interference. A new system has been formulated wherein the robots can map their environment through Microsoft’s Kinect camera.

18 Feb 2012

Social Robots Need to Meet Expectations of Human Brain

One of the major challenges in developing social robots is making them compatible with the expectations and requirements of the human mind, according to Maja Matariæ, Director of Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems of the University of Southern California.

6 Feb 2012

Robots Shed New Light on Evolutionary Processes

Dario Floreano and Steffen Wischmann from EPFL and Laurent Keller from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) conducted a joint research project, which showed that communication systems can develop differently in the same species and in the same environment.

10 Jan 2012

UC Berkeley Scientists Study Dinosaurs and Lizards to Develop Better Robot Design

Engineers, biologists, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, have observed how lizards remain upright even when they stumble in mid-air. The team has discovered that lizards swing their tails in the upward direction and this keeps them from falling forward.

6 Jan 2012

Computerized Contact Lens to Display Text Messages Before Wearer’s Eyes

Researchers belonging to the Aalto University in Finland and the University of Washington have created a prototype contact lens that can provide hands-free information updates to the wearer. Terminator-style information-vision is making progress towards reality.

23 Nov 2011

Researchers Understand Evolution of Flight While Working on Robotic Bug

A six-legged robotic bug was fitted with wings to improve its mobility at the University of California, Berkeley. While working on improving its mobility, the research team discovered new concepts on the evolution of flight.

19 Oct 2011

Scientist Team at Vanderbilt University Design Robotic System for Analysing Biological Data

A scientist team from various departments of the Vanderbilt University have come up with a theory of a computer being able to analyse and work on raw biological data and build basic mathematic equations which will describe the working of the biological system.

15 Oct 2011

Research on Developing Robots that Nurture and Care for Humans

A professor of Computer Science at the OU College of Engineering claims that robots can one day be made to care for fellow robots and human beings as well. Professor Dean Hougen works on his research at the OU Robotic Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab at OU.

16 Sep 2011