Call it a giant leap for machinekind. On Saturday, when Carnegie Mellon's robotic Chevy Tahoe, known as "Boss," rolled across the finish line of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge in Victorville, Calif., after 60 miles of urban driving, no driver stepped out to be showered with champagne and photographs. In fact, [...]

With the recent developments in India’s Domestic Airline market and growth in the international and domestic passenger and freight (cargo) traffics, Industry players (Airline/Forwarders/Passengers), Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airport Authority of India and IATA have unanimously identified the need of lacking support infrastructure essential for stabilizing Industrial growth. As the airline passenger traffic is projected [...]

An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has developed a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sensory feedback and allows for eight degrees of freedom—a level of control far beyond the current state of the art for prosthetic [...]

Researchers have built an inchworm-like robot so small you need a microscope just to see it.In fact about 200 hundred of them could line up and do the conga across a plain M&M. The tiny bot measures about 60 micrometers wide (about the width of a human hair) by 250 micrometers long, making it the [...]