Robots Now Replacing Chinese Factory Workers and US Fighter Pilots
Tom Cruise in that Top Gun movie, Han Solo, and that U.S. Airways pilot who landed a busted passenger jet in the Hudson River are some of the many dashing heroes we think of when we consider the heroic American pilot. But human pilots just aren't …
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Jellyfish exterminator robot developed
An unmanned aquatic robot JEROS with a mountable grinding part is buoyed by two cylindrical bodies that utilizes propulsion motors to move forward and reverse, as well as rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, GIS (geographic information system)-based map …
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S&T professor develops 'brain' for robots
A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a new feedback system to remotely control mobile robots. This innovative research will allow robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to a robot …
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ESA Developing Rocket-Hopping Mars Robot
You've got to give credit to the European Space Agency: they're totally willing to embrace some, let's say, creative ways of exploring other planets. Just last week we wrote about their idea of sending robot snakes to Mars, and now it's CO2 powered …
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See Unbelievable 3-D Visuals Performed Live With Robots and Projectors
Design and engineering studio Bot & Dolly have done something very rare — they've shown us something that we've never seen. It's so spectacular, in fact, that we find ourselves scratching our heads at the claim that everything in the video was shot …
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Robots Taking All Our Jobs? Ridiculous
With unemployment rates so high for so long, one explanation making the rounds is that "the robots are taking our jobs." This neo-Luddite, anti-technology narrative argues that high productivity driven by increasingly powerful IT-enabled "machines" is …
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Industrial robots star in projection-mapping video
Industrial robots are inherently bad ass. But when programmed as part of a work of art, they become magical. With a nod to Arthur C. Clarke, San Francisco design and engineering firm Bot & Dolly understands this concept well. It spent two years working …
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