A U.S. Army project took a new approach to developing robots — researchers built robots entirely from smaller robots known as smarticles, unlocking the principles of a potent... Read more
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated material architectures. The platform can enable... Read more
The ability to correctly order tasks is a skill that robots must possess in order to carry out complex missions. Researchers at ULB’s IRIDIA laboratory have shown, for the fi... Read more
Scripps researchers collaborate on new technology study using “robotic plankton” Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University... Read more
Controls engineers at UC San Diego have developed practical strategies for building and coordinating scores of sensor-laden balloons within hurricanes. Using onboard GPS and cellph... Read more
An innovative, effective and low-cost system which replicates in robots the pheromone-based communication of insect swarms is now being made available to robotics and artificial in... Read more
Columns of workers penetrate the forest, furiously gathering as much food and supplies as they can. They are a massive army that living things know to avoid, and that few natural o... Read more
Eliseo Ferrante and colleagues evolved complex robot behaviors using artificial evolution and detailed robotics simulations. Darwinian selection can be used to evolve robot control... Read more
Scientists have created underwater robot swarms that function like schools of fish, exchanging information to monitor the environment, searching, maintaining, exploring and harvest... Read more
Using a smart tablet and a red beam of light, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a system that allows people to control a fleet of robots with the swipe of a... Read more
The approach could be put to use in the future in service of astronauts making the journey to Mars Months of lab work has led to this chilly day – by Florida standards – with four... Read more
To meet our everyday needs in an increasingly multifaceted technological world is a challenge that pushes researchers to find innovative tools using a multidisciplinary approach. W... Read more
Swarm robotics researchers at Rice University gather data with online game The next experiment from Rice University’s Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory (MRSL) could happen on your des... Read more
