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Robotic Flower? New Internet-controlled Robots Anyone Can Build (April 26, 2007) -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed new robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect to ... > full story

Robot, Yeast Combo May Mean More Ethanol (April 24, 2007) -- Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service, are excited about the latest member to join their team: a one-armed robot. They expect it to speed studies aimed at harnessing the power of proteins ... > full story

World's First Image-guided Surgical Robot To Enhance Accuracy And Safety Of Brain Surgery (April 19, 2007) -- Surgery is about to change with the introduction of a new MRI-compatible surgical robotic system developed by Dr. Garnette Sutherland at the University of Calgary/Calgary Health ... > full story

Futuristic Robot Adapts To People, New Places (April 11, 2007) -- In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores -- cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes. Such a vision of ... > full story

Robotics: Engineers Announce Plastic, Air- And Light-driven Device More Precise Than Human Hand (April 7, 2007) -- Engineers report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic ... > full story

Machine Shop Keeps Robots Rolling (April 5, 2007) -- Rich Polak spends most of his days repairing and maintaining vacuum chambers used to test ion thrusters for NASA's deep space missions. Though his job is anything but routine, Polak recently ... > full story

Studying Snail Slime Substitutes (March 24, 2007) -- A team of engineers have set a small robot climbing walls in order to compare how natural and artificial snail slimes work. A snail's slime acts as both a glue and a lubricant, allowing the snail to ... > full story

Working To Develop Robotic Locomotion That Mimics Amoeba (March 23, 2007) -- Dennis Hong is designing his Whole Skin Locomotion (WSL) mechanism to work on much the same principle as the pseudopod -- or cytoplasmic "foot" -- of the amoeba. Preliminary experiments show that a ... > full story

Novel Salamander Robot Crawls Its Way Up The Evolutionary Ladder (March 9, 2007) -- A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to ... > full story

Conflicting Signals Can Confuse Rescue Robots (March 3, 2007) -- Researchers at NIST report that the radio transmissions of multiple search and rescue robots can interfere with each other and degrade ... > full story

Second Humanoid Robot In France Welcomed (February 28, 2007) -- The CNRS, the LIRMM and the University of Montpellier, France, have just received the fruit of a Japanese French collaboration (JRL) -- two humanized robots. Human size they will help develop the ... > full story

Enter 'Junior': Stanford Team's Next-generation Robot Joins DARPA Urban Challenge (February 27, 2007) -- When five autonomous vehicles, including the Stanford Racing Team's winning entry "Stanley," finished the 2005 Grand Challenge in the still Nevada desert, they passed a milestone of artificial ... > full story

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