Aug 27 2010

Solar-Powered Robot Swarm Could Clean Oil

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Environment, Nanomaterials, Oil Spill, Petroleum, Robots, Sensors — Alyssa Danigelis @ 11:39 am
Oil-absorbing nanomaterial on a swarm of robots could clean up spills in record time.

Aug 23 2010

Snake Robots to the Rescue

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Robotics, Robots — David Teeghman @ 6:15 pm
Snake robots could assist in search-and-rescue operations that occur in the wake of natural disasters, like the recent floods in Pakistan.

Aug 19 2010

Giant Underwater Oil Plume Found in Gulf of Mexico

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Deep Sea, Disasters and Accidents, Experiments, Government, NOAA, Oceans, Oil Spill, Science, Scientists, Seas, Vehicles — Larry O'Hanlon @ 6:00 pm
A new survey of the waters around the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has found a massive, submerged plume of hydrocarbons.

Aug 09 2010

Artificial Bee Eye Gives Insect’s View

Tag: Animals, Autonomous Robots, Biomimetics — David Teeghman @ 5:01 pm
Scientists have recreated an imaging system to mimic a bee's field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles.

Jul 29 2010

Snake Robots Could Disable Explosives

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Military Robots, Robotics, Robots — David Teeghman @ 1:44 pm
The Army is working on autonomous snake robots that can go on search-and-rescue missions.

Jul 21 2010

Pooping Robot Needs More Fiber

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Robotics, Robots — David Teeghman @ 3:08 pm
By being able to feed and excrete waste themselves, robots could be set to work for long periods without human intervention.

Jul 08 2010

Submarine Robots Learn Teamwork

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Communication, Computer Networking, Robotics, Robots, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles — David Teeghman @ 5:46 pm
New technology networks autonomous underwater vehicles so that they can travel farther and survey more ocean than ever before.

May 19 2010

Military Robots Keep Soldiers Out of Danger

Tag: Army, Autonomous Robots, Military, Robotics, Robots, Soldiers, Wars — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 pm
Although they aren't yet advanced enough to replace field combatants, robots can perform routine tasks that would otherwise put troops in harm's way.

May 11 2010

Aircraft Lands on Side of Wall, Vertically

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Aviation, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles — Tracy Staedter @ 3:22 pm
If the walls could talk, they'd say, "I think an airplane just landed on me." This unmanned vehicle from a research team at Stanford University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second raises its nose up ...

Apr 29 2010

Aircraft Lands on Side of Wall, Vertically

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Aviation, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles — Tracy Staedter @ 8:24 pm
If the walls could talk, they'd say, "I think an airplane just landed on me." This unmanned vehicle from a research team at the University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second raises its nose up ...
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