Back in 2015, a challenge was issued forth from the US-based robotics company, Megabots Inc. to its Japanese competitor, Suidobashi Heavy Industry. The scope entailed an exhilarating match-up between two giant robots for the first time in the world. And now, two years later, Megabots have followed up on their 'call to arms' with the…
Vitaly Bulgarov, the man whose mind-boggling robot designs have been featured in a plethora of recent sci-fi movies, including Terminator Genisys, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Robocop, as well as World of Warcraft and Starcraft video games, is now working with Korea Future Technology to create an enormous mech-suit robot that could help with Fukushima…
While 3D printing promises drastically lower construction times, the newly-developed Hadrian X automaton is capable of erecting a house in less than 2 days. Designed by the engineers at Australia's Fastbrick Robotics Limited, this innovative construction robot is programmed to lay nearly 1,000 bricks in a single hour. What is more, it can operate around the…
Thanks to recent technological advancements, bio-inspired robotics is currently taking the world by storm. Last year, for instance, we talked about Pleurobot, an amazingly versatile robot that mimics the movements of a salamander. Around the same time, a team of South Korean scientists created an innovative robotic insect that behaves similar to actual water striders.…
The future, it seems, has arrived, and it is in the form of a quadruped robot. Meet SpotMini, an incredibly clever all-electric robot that can do a variety of household chores, including dumping empty soda cans in the bin and even loading the dishwasher. That is not all, however. This Boston Dynamics-designed contraption is also…
Researchers at Washington DC-based Children's National Health System have made great strides in robotic surgery. For the first time ever, the team from Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation has successfully conducted autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery on a living subject in a standard open surgical setting. According to them, such an approach is…
Scientists from Cornell University have designed an incredibly elastic electroluminescent display that could pave the way for innovative mood-sensitive robots. The versatile “skin”, according to the researchers, is capable of displaying patient’s pulse and temperature, while also reacting to his or her mood. The breakthrough, the team believes, could result in significant advances in the…
If you are dreaming of a world where humans, animals and robots can peacefully coexist, you might have to wait a while. According to a recent video, posted by US-based venture capitalist and businessman Steve Jurvetson, biological dogs seem to be quite hostile towards their robotic counterparts. Adorable though it is, the video shows Cosmo,…
Death, as we all know, is inevitable. But what Josh Bocanegra-founded Humai is trying to do is probably the closest we’d ever get to being immortal. The company has quite ambitiously claimed that, within the next 30 years, it will have developed a technology that can effectively transfer the consciousness of dead people into artificially-created…
History has proven that people are willing to lose bloody battles due to their penchant for cats. Well this time around, Hasbro has proven that technology can keep up with such creepy levels of 'cat affability' found in humans - courtesy of their Joy For All range of robotic cats. Yes, you read that right…