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What it feels like ... to create a robot

Robots are becoming more prominent in everyday life. In the short-term, they won’t take over the world, but they can make it a better place. Robotics and electronics can be used to help other people, ...
Knowridge Science Report

Why the next generation of robots will have tendons instead of motors

At the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, the scene looks less like a traditional engineering workshop and more like a child’s ...
Daily Mail

Intelligent design: Scientists create robot which can build its own tools - but is this a step too far for robotics?

It sounds like a bad sci-fi film: A group of scientists build an robot intelligent robot, give it the ability to build its own tools, and arm it with a gun. Thankfully, while the first part is true, ...
Birmingham Mail

Brummie boffins to create robot teacher

Brummie boffins have revealed plans for a hi-tech classroom revolution – by creating a ROBOT teacher. Scientists from the University of Birmingham are leading a £2.5million project to create the ...
Daily Mail

The crème de la crème of AI: British scientists create robot that can move things out of the way to get the milk out of the fridge (but it can’t yet make a decent cuppa)

A robot that can quickly dig a bottle of milk out of the depths of a cluttered fridge has been created by a team of British scientists. The artificial intelligence does this by combining automated ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Researchers create world's smallest programmable, autonomous robots

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...
Huffington Post UK

Researchers Create Robot Skeleton With Human-Like Muscles

In the hunt to create the ultimate cyborg researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have unveiled a robot which uses human-like muscles to move. The robot has been, rather worryingly, built ...
The Sun

Genius inventors create robot DOLPHINS ‘you can’t tell from the real thing’ – and each one costs £20million

ROBOT dolphins that offer a cruelty-free way to interact with the super-smart mammals could be making their way to aquariums in China. The animatronic machines look just like real dolphins and can ...
London Evening Standard

Scientists create robot with ‘biological nose’ able to detect smells

Humans aren’t the only species at risk of losing their jobs to machines — dogs could be next. Israeli scientists claim to have created a robot with a “biological nose” for smelling odours. This could ...
Yahoo News UK

Japanese Scientists Create Robot Skin That Can Smile

Japanese Scientists Create Robot Skin That Can Smile. Japanese researchers have found a way to give humanoid robots skin that can be pulled into a smile. Taking inspiration from human skin ligaments, ...
BBC

Scientists create a robot chameleon that changes colour!

Researchers in South Korea have created a robot chameleon that can change its skin colour to match its surroundings - just like a real chameleon! The robot can change colour almost instantly by ...
Electronics Weekly

iRobot’s Create 3 robotics kit does the Roomba

You wait ages for an educational robot to come trundling along, and then two come together: this one is the Create 3, the educational robot from iRobot. Last week we highlighted the Trilobot, which ...