MIT Researchers Have Created Tiny Cube Robots That Swarm Together With a Hive Mind
It's the closest thing we've seen to real-life Transformers: robotic blocks that can travel independently, attach themselves to each other in predefined ...
These tiny robots are turning science fiction into medical reality
In the 1966 sci-fi movie "Fantastic Voyage", a submarine and its crew are shrunk to the size of a microbe so they can be injected into the bloodstream ...
Google’s AI Teaches a Robot to Assemble and Disassemble Objects
“If robots could learn “how things fit together,” then perhaps they could become more adaptable to new manipulation tasks involving objects they have ...
This flying robot can clean glass curtain walls in high-rises
Chinese researchers have designed a novel flying robot that not only climbs wall like you have seen in sci-fi movies but is also capable of avoiding ...
Did ancient Earth life escape our solar system?
You've heard of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout space and was carried to Earth by comets? What if the reverse occurred, with microbes on Earth ejected into space by asteroid impacts, escaping into the solar system billions of years ago? arrow.
NASA scientist expects to find aliens within 20 years
We could find alien life within the next few decades, according to NASA scientists who are working around the clock to figure out if we are alone in the universe. The pace in which scientists are discovering potentially habitable planets in our cosmic ...
Fall madness: MIT’s Mini Cheetah robots play soccer
The Nov. 6 video posted by Biomimetics Robotics Lab at Mass Institute of Technology in Killian Court does not need a text narrative and it has none, but that won't stop you thinking along the lines of in-video bystander reactions: "Oh God." "Whoooo." Nine mini ...
MIT develops navigation method to help delivery robots find the front door
Standard approaches for robotic navigation involve mapping an area ahead of time, then using algorithms to guide a robot toward a specific goal or ...
Autonomous Robotic Boats Improve Environmental Sampling at Sea
Autonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea: Robotic boats could more rapidly locate the most valuable sampling spots in uncharted ...
“Artificial leaf” to create methanol from carbon dioxide produced by scientists
When we talk about technologies that can convert elements such as carbon into fuel, we often quote the term 'artificial leaf', because converting carbon dioxide into useful fuel is more or less what a plant does when it converts the same carbon dioxide into ...