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World’s Largest Robots Are Setting Sail

Mar 7, 2024 | Featured, Robots

It sounds like science fiction. Ocean-going ships with no-one on board. But this vision of the future is coming – and sooner than you might think. You can glimpse it in a Norwegian fjord where a huge, lime-green vessel is being put through its paces. At first...

Minnesota Students Design Robots to Shovel Snow

Feb 29, 2024 | Robots

For the 14th annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition, organizers had to make snow, then shovel it onto the Dunwoody College of Technology parking lot so the robots could attempt to plow it away. It’s never easy to do what Kevin Nguyen, Kyle Yotter and other...

Seeing Eye Dog V2.0 Shaping Up As Gamechanger

Feb 22, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots

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

Feb 15, 2024 | Robots

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

Feb 15, 2024 | Delivery, Robots

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...