From the Mechanical Turk to Rosey Jetson to Data himself, robots have often been imagined as sophisticated machines, capable ...

Project HERMITS by [Ken Nakagaki] is inspired by this very concept, and involves table-top robots that dock with a variety of modules with different mechanical mechanisms. As shown in the project ...

This design approach is not only robust, it is also cheap—each robot costs about $20 to manufacture. “This is a completely different way of looking at building machines,” said Michael Tolley, a ...

The problem isn't physiological; but rather, mechanical. As robots become ... has already made it into the operating room. The RIO surgical robot, which is used exclusively for hip and knee ...

MIT researchers are designing robotic insects capable of swarming from mechanical hives to ... Additionally, there is enough room in the new design for the robot to carry small sensors or ...

[gzumwalt]’s 3D printed mechanical edge avoiding robot is a beautifully elegant example of this. The only electric components on this robot is a small geared DC motor and a LiPo battery.

A room service "Doorbot" could deliver your next breakfast if you stay at a Marriott International property like the ...

“Now, it’s the opposite,” says Nejat, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Toronto. “I have people calling from around the world saying, When’s your robot going to ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material.