A research team from the University of Zurich has developed a new drone that can retract its propeller arms in flight and make itself small to fit through narrow gaps and holes. This is part... Read more
Underwater robot can identify and kill crown-of-thorns starfish while monitoring overall reef health
An underwater drone that can keep watch on reef health and accurately identify and inject the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish is ready to be put to the test on the Great Barrier Reef, a... Read more
Like the state animal of New York, the rover-like vehicle uses surroundings to build complex structures, overcome obstacles Autonomous robots excel in factories and other manmade spaces, but... Read more
Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are leading the implementation of a new kind of autonomous underground robot with intelligent navigation for urban environments. The... Read more
A crossroads for intersections Sick of waiting at traffic lights? The semi-autonomous driving aids being fitted to many new cars could consign the red light to history, A*STAR researchers re... Read more
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Vehicle Research Section and Photovoltaic Section are building on the proven concept of autonomous cooperative soaring of unmanned ae... Read more
Self-driving scooter demonstrated at MIT complements autonomous golf carts and city cars At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility sco... Read more
Atlanta is a booming metropolis with its own nemesis: traffic. With millions of daily commuters, and nearly 80 percent of them driving alone to work each day, suburbanites and city dwellers... Read more
Gansha Wu was a veteran engineering manager at Intel Corporation and director of Intel Labs China when two events upended his world last year. First, he listened to the veteran technology wr... Read more
Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light The Microsoft Kinect was a boon to robotics researchers. The cheap, off-the-shelf depth sensor allowed them to... Read more
The ROAR project is aimed at showing how machines can communicate with each other and how, in the future, they will be able to carry out tasks now undertaken by humans In both an impressive... Read more
