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Seeing Eye Dog V2.0 Shaping Up As Gamechanger

An important new iteration of the robotic seeing eye dog was shown to the world this week, when Glasgow University showed off RoboGuide, an AI-powered quadruped for visually impaired people. The future for robotic canine assistants looks not just...

Wormlike Robots For Search And Rescue

Scientists have been trying to build snakelike, limbless robots for decades. These robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors. With slender, flexible...

Robots Delivering Takeaways To Edinburgh Students

Students can have food delivered by robots under a trial project under way at University of Edinburgh. Known as Pixie, the autonomous vehicles can travel along private roads on campus. Students at the university’s King’s Building are able to order up food...

Scientists Build Robot Dinosaur To Probe Mystery Of Tiny Wings

Grasshoppers in South Korea may be on high alert, after scientists created a robotic version of an enemy from the insects’ distant past. In a series of experiments, researchers scared grasshoppers using a robo-dinosaur with training wheels and flapping...