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SPORTS fans need never miss a match again, thanks to software that could automatically film games and so allow broadcasters to cover them more cheaply by losing camera crew.

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Dubbed the Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing (APIDIS), the system combines the video stream from several cameras, says [...]

ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2010) — Robonaut is evolving.

Robonaut2 — or R2 for short — is the next generation dexterous robot, developed through a Space Act Agreement by NASA and General Motors. It is faster, more dexterous and more technologically advanced than its predecessors and able to use its hands to do work beyond the scope [...]

Following the principle of chaos control, the robot produces regular leg movements when walking normally. In addition, it can use the uncontrolled chaotic movement pattern to free itself when its leg is trapped in a hole. (Credit: Network Dynamics Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)

ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2010) — Even simple insects can [...]

Walls alone won't seal US borders (Image: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features)

A MIGRANT makes a furtive dash across an unwalled rural section of a national border, only to be confronted by a tracked robot that looks like a tiny combat tank – with a gimballed camera for an eye. As he passes the bug-eyed droid, it follows him [...]

A LOCUST flight simulator could be the key to perfecting the ultimate surveillance machine: an artificial flying insect. The simulator can model the way wings of varying shapes and surface features beat, as well as how they change their shape during flight.

Smoke signals helps robots fly better (Image: Simon Walker, Animal Flight Group, Oxford University)
The [...]

Watch LittleDog as he "learns" to navigate his way up stairs and over a barrier of pegs.
 

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ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2009) — Researchers at the University of Bath have used nature for inspiration in designing a new type of swimming robot which could bring a breakthrough in submersible technology.

Postgraduate researchers Keri Collins and Ryan Ladd developed the Gymnobot. It is powered by a fin that runs the length of the underside of [...]

ASKING someone for help is second nature for humans, and now it could help robots overcome one of the thorniest problems in artificial intelligence.

No shame in asking for help (Image: Ken Conley/Willow Garage)
That’s the thinking behind a project at Willow Garage, a robotics company in Palo Alto, California. Researchers there are training a robot to [...]

Some are already on their way and some are still in the works, but here is what we may see from unmanned exploration of space in the coming years.

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Fifty years ago this month, the Soviet Union scored a coup in the space race with a probe called Luna 2. The spacecraft, which resembled a [...]

Robotics expert Noel Sharkey used to be a believer in artificial intelligence. So why does he now think that AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian future of unintelligent, unfeeling robot carers and soldiers? Nic Fleming finds out

What do you mean when you talk about artificial intelligence?
I like AI pioneer Marvin [...]