Lower-leg Amputees Will Test Carnegie Mellon’s Balance Recovery Technology Trips and stumbles too often lead to falls for amputees using leg prosthetics, but a robotic leg prosthesis being d... Read more
A study by engineers at Oregon State University suggests that they have achieved the most realistic robotic implementation of human walking dynamics that has ever been done, which may ultima... Read more
CANCER The hunt for a vaccine against malaria in pregnant women has provided an unexpected side benefit for Danish researchers, namely what appears to be an effective weapon against cancer.... Read more
DORA—the Dextrous Observational Roving Automaton—is a new kind of robot. Its job isn’t to replace humans by performing tasks more efficiently. Instead, it interacts with human users and serv... Read more
There has been much discussion of late of the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), especially regarding robot weapons development and a related but more general discussion about AI as an... Read more
DNA molecules provide the “source code” for life in humans, plants, animals and some microbes. But now researchers report an initial study showing that the strands can also act a... Read more