Robotics

The Silicon Valley research lab showed off some of its newest inventions to celebrate its 40th birthday.

September 23, 2010 10:25pm | By Deborah Gage

Scientists developed a way of printing electronics on complex surfaces. They were inspired by geckos.

September 22, 2010 7:10am | By Boonsri Dickinson

Check out the moon Saturday night at an International Observe the Moon Night event near you.

9 | September 17, 2010 12:18am | By Deborah Gage

Scientists developed NeuFlow, a supercomputer with the ability to process what it sees. The wallet-sized chip computer could help cars drive on their own, 360-degree vision for soldiers, and...

1 | September 16, 2010 10:45am | By Boonsri Dickinson

At El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, industrious robots rove the corridors and ride the elevators carting packages, hauling supplies and even taking out the trash.

4 | September 16, 2010 8:33am

The oil did sink. It's on the seafloor.

3 | September 15, 2010 10:09am | By Boonsri Dickinson

They're being trained to fool each other, but the goal is to deceive us.

8 | September 14, 2010 1:29am | By Deborah Gage

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have created a pressure sensitive artificial skin built from nanowires used in semiconductors. This e-skin would first be used in robotics and...

1 | September 13, 2010 6:04am | By Larry Dignan

Carnegie Mellon researchers have figured out how to analyze outdoor scenes using AI. This might help robots navigate the land.

3 | September 10, 2010 1:57pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Scientists have been working on these lizard robots for at least 10 years.

1 | September 6, 2010 8:00pm | By Deborah Gage

Researchers at MIT have developed independent robots that use a revolutionary nanomaterial to absorb considerable amounts of oil - up to 20 times their weight.

September 2, 2010 10:11am | By Larry Dignan

Researchers at MIT have developed independent robots that use a revolutionary nanomaterial to absorb considerable amounts of oil - up to 20 times their weight. Powered by solar panels, the...

2 | September 2, 2010 9:53am

Private funding of space travel will become common, a NASA economist predicts.

1 | September 2, 2010 9:27am | By Deborah Gage

Explosion occurs on a Mariner Energy platform off the coast of central Louisiana.

September 2, 2010 9:02am | By Melissa Mahony

Dr. Jacob Rosen, a professor at UC Santa Cruz is designing wearable robots to assist stroke victims in physical therapy and rehabilitation. SmartPlanet visits his robotics lab to see how...

August 31, 2010 12:33pm | By Larry Dignan

Dr. Jacob Rosen, a professor at UC Santa Cruz is designing wearable robots to assist stroke victims in physical therapy and rehabilitation. SmartPlanet visits his robotics lab to see how...

3 | August 31, 2010 12:25pm

Bet you didn't know that the immature eggs of the African Clawed Frog were so useful.

2 | August 27, 2010 12:11am | By Dan Nosowitz

Autonomous swarming robots could clean up the oil spill, say MIT researchers.

2 | August 25, 2010 12:11pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

France's long-term storage plan for nuclear power waste moves along. American radioactive waste sits in wait for a permanent home. As a U.S. government panel continues digging for a solution,...

26 | August 16, 2010 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

Bees are known to have great vision and now scientists have created a system that mimics what a honeybee sees. The system could be applied to flying vehicles like drones and robots.

August 6, 2010 5:58am | By Larry Dignan