An autonomous van developed by the University of Parma’s Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VisLab), drives itself on a highway, as part of a 13,000-km, three-month journey from Italy to China.
Israeli researchers have developed a device that converts nasal pressure into electrical signals, which could enable paralyzed people to type text and surf the Web. In this video, the researchers, led by Noam Sobel, a professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, demonstrate “sniff control” of an electric wheelchair.
A telepresence robot called QB replaced me at the office for one week.
Researchers led by Professor Heinz Ulbrich at the Institute of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich are developing superfast camera-orientation systems that can reproduce the movements of the human eye.
Developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Virginia Tech roboticist Dennis Hong shows off the new DARwIn-OP open-source robot at the IEEE Humanoids 2010 conference in Nashville, Tenn.
McGill University researchers have developed a UAV control system that uses vision algorithms to guide the aircraft along a coastline.
Aldebaran Robotics founder and CEO Bruno Maisonnier demos the latest version of the Nao humanoid robot.
Humanoid robot Nao performs its “Star Wars” act for Bruno Maisonnier, founder and CEO of Aldebaran Robotics.
Steven Lee, the guidance, navigation, and control manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., describes how NASA plans to land and navigate its new Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars in 2012.
Vstone shows off its Robovie R3, a mobile platform designed for human-robot interaction research.
Autom is a robot created by Intuitive Automata designed to help people keep track of their eating and exercise habits.
Windoro is a window-cleaning robot developed by PIRO and Ilshim Global, in South Korea.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have built an anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure collisions with hard objects and even strikes from a hammer without breaking into pieces.
Robonaut 2 will become the first humanoid robot in space.
This robotic seal, developed at Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University, shoots hoops like a pro.