A robot with an automatic drive that travels around and inspects the rails can hopefully lower the cost of railway maintenance and reduce delays. In any case, that is the goal of the maintenance robot developed by researchers at Chalmers."Today, the problems on...
For those who are into popular culture, nanobots are a familiar concept. Tiny robots that can move around unnoticed, even inside the human body, and perform remarkable tasks. On May 25, engineers at Northwestern University in Chicago posted a paper on their...
Experienced chefs trust their taste buds more than recipes. They constantly taste the food and correct it until it tastes perfect. This is something that cooking robots have a hard time doing. But now, researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK have built a...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the USA have built a robot, called Star, which can perform a surgical procedure entirely on its own. So far, the robot has only been allowed to operate on pig tissue, but it has done so with honor according to the...
DHL is investing $ 15 million in a small fleet of advanced robots from Boston Dynamics. The units are called Stretch and are mobile robots that can zip around the warehouse and move boxes between different places.Stretch can be described as a long robot arm placed on...
Researchers at the University of California Riverside, UCR, have developed a new way of dealing with oil spills at sea. They have developed a kind of film that floats on water and is able to navigate – a floating robot in other words."Our motivation was to...