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Swinburne’s Students Design World's Fastest Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot

A team of six students from the Swinburne University of Technology have designed a robot, called Ruby, which can solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle within time duration of just over 10 seconds.

31 May 2011

MIT Researchers Design Robots that Respond to Changing Environments

MIT Researchers have formulated an algorithm, which enables robots to procrastinate planning of tasks and to react to variations in environments.

31 May 2011

Japan to Develop Robots for Use in Nuclear Accidents

Japan is developing a robotic suit for aged farmers to assist them in laborious activities such as harvesting and tending crops.

31 May 2011

Cornell University Students Present Array of Small Personalized Robots

Cornell University students are developing personal robots that are capable of performing various household tasks.

31 May 2011

Dr. Mark W. Spong Receives Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society have awarded the 2011 Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award to Dr. Mark W. Spong for his innovative contribution to the field of robotics.

31 May 2011

University of Leeds Develops Robot for Exploration Purposes

The mystery of the pyramids could be unveiled by a robot designed by Rob Richardson, an engineer at the University of Leeds.

31 May 2011

Researchers Design Supersonic Grippers for Climbing Robots

A research team from New Zealand’s University of Canterbury has designed a supersonic model of the Bernoulli gripper to enable a robot to climb on various surfaces. This robot’s gripper does not touch the wall.

30 May 2011

Hong Kong Engineers Develop Autonomous Robot with Tree Crawling Capabilities

Engineers at Hong Kong’s Chinese University have created an autonomous robot, Treebot, which has crawling capabilities.

30 May 2011

RoadNarrows Receives Financial Aid to Develop Robotic Manipulator Arm

RoadNarrows, a robotics company based in Loveland, received a financial aid of $150,000 from the National Science Foundation. The financial aid was funded by the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR).

From RoadNarrows LLC 28 May 2011

Australian Researchers Develop Robots with Language Skills

Researchers at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology are training a pair of robots, named the Lingodroids, to communicate like humans.

28 May 2011