All items tagged with robotics and robots (175)

2-07-2013 | Developments in Artificial Intelligence may one day lead to the creation of superintelligence. The inherent difficulty of controlling a syst...

1-07-2013 | The second time I met Alice, she was already able to stand up. When she smiled, I involuntarily smiled back. It took a while for me to reali...

5-06-2013 | Linkbot is a modular robotic platform designed to be easy enough for kids and beginners yet challenging enough for advanced designers creati...

1-05-2013 | Tactile sensing is an important component to make robotic end effectors more versatile and adaptive. As robots move into the human environme...

19-03-2013 | We’ve all seen the amazing capabilities of flocks of birds and schools of fish to move seemingly as one. Such collective behavior can be wit...

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...