robotics

A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical…

I suffer from “terminal boredom syndrome”; I always need a challenging hobby to keep me sane. In 2012, the Raspberry Pi was launched just as my…

In this competition, MAFAT DDR&D (Israel Directorate of Defense Research & Development) would like to tackle the challenge of automatically…

Picking up a pen off a desk and writing with it might seem easy to you, but it’s no small feat to a robot. For one thing, once you pick up the pen,…

The “Robat” is a fully autonomous terrestrial robot with bat-like qualities that uses echolocation to move through novel environments while mapping…

Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at…

Automated Valet Parking is based on intelligent infrastructure and allows drivers to instruct their vehicle via smartphone to make its own way to a…

We‘ve been promised that in the future we will be able to simply tell our devices what we want. They will understand and will comply with our…

Automated trucks on the road: more than one in three survey respondents have no preference for a human over a machine. Germans are annoyed by…

“Robots have long been established in industry. This is still not the case in private life,” says Professor Dr. Friederike Eyssel, of the Cluster of…