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Scientists Design Termite-Inspired Robots for Building Complex Structures

"Termites are what inspired this whole research topic for us," said the study's lead author Justin Werfel, a researcher at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "We learned the incredible things these tiny insects can build and said: Fantastic. Now how do we create and program robots that work in similar ways but build what humans want?"

14 Feb 2014

Global Snake Robot Market Poised to Grow

Research and Markets has announced the addition of a new report "Snake Robots Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts to 2019" to their offering.

4 Feb 2014

Study of Ants in Microgravity May Help Build Better Searching Robots

Several hundred ants have boldly gone where no ants have gone before: the International Space Station, high above Earth.

20 Jan 2014

High Hopes for Carnegie Mellon's CHIMP Robot at DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials

It's only been a few weeks since Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) completed assembly of its four-limbed CHIMP robot, but the Tartan Rescue Team has high hopes for the robot's performance at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials Dec. 20-21.

16 Dec 2013

Collaboration Between Biologists and Robotic Specialists Result in Innovative Robots

Collaborations between robotics specialists and biologists have never been so successful. The former draw their ideas from animal morphology while the latter have found in technology a useful tool for studying nature. Francesco Mondada, robotics engineer at EPFL, and Laurent Keller, specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), exchange their points of view.

11 Dec 2013

Future Miniaturized Robots May Move Like Biological Unicellular Organisms

Forget cogwheels, pistons and levers: miniaturized robots of the future will be "soft".

9 Dec 2013

Robotic Antenna Mimicks Cockroach's Hairs

Love them or hate them, cockroaches are notoriously good escape artists and can flee at astonishing speeds.

6 Dec 2013

Latest European Biomimetic Robotics Research Showcased at Science Museum

Robotic cheetah cubs and salamanders have ventured from Lausanne into the depths of London's robot jungle, at the Science Museum, in a Robot Safari that just opened and runs until Sunday.

30 Nov 2013

Robot Turtle for Penetrating Shipwrecks to Premiere at London Science Museum

The Robot Safari in London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the underwater robot U-CAT, a highly maneuverable robot turtle, designed to penetrate shipwrecks.

28 Nov 2013

RobotSafariEU at Science Museum, London to Explore the World of Biomimetic Robots

The Science Museum, London, opens exhibition showing 13 Robot SafariEU biomimetic robots throughout Europe. Only two are Spanish, Bat-Bot and ITuna. They have been designed by UPM researchers.

26 Nov 2013