autonomous robots

Starfish-killing robot close to trials on Great Barrier Reef

  An autonomous starfish-killing robot is close to being ready for trials on the Great

Robots can recover from damage in minutes

Robots will one day provide tremendous benefits to society, such as in search and rescue

Helping robots put it all together

New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly Today’s industrial robots

Scientist created drones that fly autonomously and learn new routes

Drones say goodbye to pilots. With the goal of achieving autonomous flight of these aerial

Intelligent deep sea robotics: Autonomous underwater robot with intelligent 3D cameras for high precision search and tracking in deep seas

Intelligent deep sea robotics: Autonomous underwater robot with intelligent 3D cameras for high precision search

Rent A Robot Security Guard for $6.25 an Hour

Creating quite a buzz among robotics enthusiasts and media outlets, a number of robotic security

Meet The “Swarmies”- Robotics Answer to Bugs

A small band of NASA engineers and interns is about to begin testing a group

A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm

“Form a sea star shape,” directs a computer scientist, sending the command to 1,024 little

A visual odometry algorithm uses low-latency brightness change events from a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) and the data from a normal camera to provide absolute brightness values. The left photograph shows the camera frame, and the right photograph shows the DVS events (displayed in red and blue) plus grayscale from the camera. Image courtesy of the researchers
Think fast, robot

Algorithm that harnesses data from a new sensor could make autonomous robots more nimble. One

An RQ-4 Global Hawk drone flies over mountains and desert. Credit: Northrop Grumman
Killer Robots: Natural Evolution, or Abomination?

Ask one technologist and he or she might say that lethal autonomous weapons — machines

UN human rights expert calls for a moratorium on lethal autonomous robots

“While drones still have a ‘human in the loop’ who takes the decision to use