Robots // 

Learning algebra with a robot sounds way better than learning it with flashcards, right? I know I would have had a ...

Rebecca Boyle at 02:00 AM Feb 9 2013
Robots // 

New generations of bio-inspired robots will be more than just inspired by nature - they may use actual biological ...

Rebecca Boyle at 01:15 AM Sep 3 2012
Robots // 

The "uncanny valley" principle - the idea that when robots (or politicians) look human but not quite realistic ...

Clay Dillow at 07:05 AM Jul 12 2012

There's a dearth of pretty robots in the world today. We have powerful robots, creepy robots, weird robots - but ...

Nick Gilbert at 14:08 PM Jun 26 2012
Robots // 

The future of robotics is soft and modular, or at least that's they way some of the robotics gurus at the Écol...

Clay Dillow at 05:39 AM Jun 19 2012
Robots // 

Roboticists make robots out of all kinds of things, but Aaron Ohta at the University of Hawaii at Manoa makes them ...

Clay Dillow at 01:13 AM May 23 2012

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"-t...

Vijay Kumar as told to Flora Lichtman at 07:12 AM May 1 2012
 
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