Robots are tending to tomato plants at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Nikolaus Correll, an MIT postdoc, has made a robot fitted with a watering pump and programmed to tend to tomato plants grown in the MIT’s CSAIL. Tags-care plants robot (1)-robot take care of plants (1)-taking care of plants (1) Read More →

A robot is currently building a looping brick wall right in the middle of New York. Over a period of three weeks, passers-by can watch the “Pike Loop” installation in the making on a traffic island. Tags-new york apartments with brick walls (2)-box installations architecture (1)-city building robot (1)-digital fabrication building detailing (1)-digital fabrication wall (1)-robot building... 

Japan’s Sony Corporation has unveiled a prototype robot that can sing and dance. Tags-prototype robot (2)-robot prototypes (2)-human shaped f (1)-human shaped robot (1)-japanese human prototypes (1)-prototype of a robot (1)-robot can sing (1)-robot names (1)-video japan sony (1) Read More →

Scientists are now building a new kind of robot capable of self-assembly and doing tasks too difficult or too dangerous for human beings. This video shows some of the concepts and advancements  Read More →

Once considered oddities, multiarmed tools are becoming mainstays of hospital operating rooms. The industry trailblazer in the human–robot medical team is the da Vinci HD Surgical System, a multiarmed assistant that is directly controlled by a surgeon who sits at a nearby console. Hu, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, has removed more than 600 cancerous prostates with the da... 

Have you ever wished to have breakfast ready when  you wake up?? Your wish is fulfilled. Engineers have finally come up with masterchef robot called Okonomiyaki Robot. During the “Robot Food Park” demonstration, Okonomiyaki Robot, developed by Osaka-based Toyo Riki Co., boasted its prowess in cooking “okonomiyaki” — Osaka’s trademark meat, vegetable and seafood pancake. Tags-cooking robot... 

While efforts to rescue NASA’s Spirit continue (as reported by us a few days back), NASA has also funded research to design all terrain robots. Inventors finally came up with this simple spool-shaped robot could one day rappel into steep craters on other planets or moons, anchored to another spacecraft by a rope. Tags-all terrain robot (4)-all terrain robots (2)-nasa rock climbing robot (1) Read More →

A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.  Read More →

According to the Free Spirit blog, NASA has added a second test rover to the project, where scientists are working on a way of freeing the stuck Mars Rover, Spirit. The rover is stuck in soft soil at a site called Troy. Tags-mars rover (5)-robot mars (3)-rover spirit (2)-large pictures of the rover spirit (1)-Spirit rover png (1)-rover to mars (1)-Pictures from Mars Rovers (1)-mars stuck rover (1)-mars...