More about Robotics (220)

11-03-2013 | Old school robots don’t particularly like unstructured environments such as the homes of us messy humans. Objects are moved, task descriptio...

25-02-2013 | ‘Science fiction has a pretty poor track record of absorbing scientific truths’, says science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds. ‘The most in...

9-01-2013 | An Internet of drones. That is what John Robb, inventor and military strategist, proposes to tackle the problems related to last mile delive...

1-01-2013 | This month: - The female engineers archive - Meet your new colleague - Underground’ radio - The case against the killer robo...

6-12-2012 | This article first appeared in the December issue of Elektor. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the merger of the physical and the digital wo...

21-11-2012 | It does not happen often. Calling for a public debate about the desirability of a technology that is still at least 20 or 30 years away from...

14-11-2012 | With everybody constantly on their phones, the emergence of the Internet of Things and augmented reality, ubiquitous computing does not seem...

26-09-2012 | A sensor array that can be strapped to the chest builds a map in real time as the user moves through the environment. The team of MIT’s Co...

10-07-2012 | In the 2005 comic book series The Surrogates (turned into a movie by the same name in 2009) people remotely operate humanoid robotic substit...

27-06-2012 | When art partners with technology the results are often fascinating. But when the starring role is given to sixteen quadrotors mounted with...