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IEEE Spectrum
June 2006
Theberge & Dudek |
Gone Swimmin' An amphibious robot explores aquatic environments and could help save coral reefs, too.   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Susan Karlin |
Robotics' Wild Kingdom An engineer looks to nature to make robots that slither through pipes and climb walls. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008 |
Dream Jobs 2008 Studying penguins in Antarctica, watching shooting stars in the South Pacific, tracking robots through the Amazon -- yes, this is engineering. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Erico Guizzo |
When My Avatar Went to Work A robot surrogate or telepresence robot took my place at the office. Here's why one may take yours, too |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Students Hope Robot Snakes Slither Out of Lab A family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes have potential use in search-and-rescue and surveillance missions. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Guizzo & Ackerman |
How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker Rodney Brooks's new start-up wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Jean Kumagai |
Swimming to Europa A robot designed to explore Mexican sinkholes is pointing the way to Jupiter's watery moon. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Jean Kumagai |
Halfway to Mars How a hardy band of researchers braved freezing nights, bad food, and high winds in the Chilean desert to test the next generation of planetary rovers. |
National Defense
November 2012
Eric Beidel |
Cheetah Robot Breaks Another Record Developed by Boston Dynamics on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the robot, called Cheetah, has reached a peak speed of 28.3 mph for a 20-meter split. |
Popular Mechanics
September 29, 2008
Erik Sofge |
MIT Submarine Is Most Autonomous Robot Ocean Researcher Yet On the heels of successful bot building by land and air, the all-new Odyssey IV explores the ocean's depths on its own while fighting strong currents and gathering crucial data. |
Popular Mechanics
July 16, 2009
Allie Haake |
5 Useless Robots (And Why We Love Them) Robots are made to assist us and to improve our environments and make our lives easier. In the history of robotic development there have been epic failures and incremental successes. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2005
Linda Fasteson |
Cruises: Embarking on a Royal Adventure Into the Amazon and Beyond It was a magical cruise that offered a taste of three continents - South America, Africa, and Europe, all in 23 days. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Wall-Climbing Robot Spies Gecko-inspired robots rely on directional adhesive feet; a new wall-climbing robot uses electrostatic adhesion. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Steven Cherry |
Robots, Incorporated Microsoft's best and brightest are quietly trying to bring robotics into the mainstream. Good robotics programming is far harder than writing a typical application for personal computers. |
National Defense
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Getting Ready for the 'Robot Revolution' As advances in technology allow for smarter, more versatile robots, they are expected to become more widely used in places such as laboratories, hospitals and food service operations. |
Wired
September 2000 |
At Home With The Androids Robosapiens... SIG... DB... Face Robot... Personal Robot R100... Jack... Robonaut... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-girls Take On the World More than 10,000 teenagers from 344 teams traveled from 23 countries to the Georgia Dome for the 2007 FIRST Robotics World Championship. Seven all-girl teams made the run through the gauntlet of regional championships to be part of the Atlanta group. |
National Defense
May 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield. |
BusinessWeek
June 10, 2010
Peter Millard |
Oil-Rich Deep Waters Off Brazil Still Beckon Despite the Gulf spill, Petrobras continues to drill offshore. |
Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Students Race for Lunar Cred in New FIRST Robotics Game (With Video!) Teams of high school students have six weeks to build a robot and then compete with it in regional events. |
Popular Mechanics
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
Game On for Students in FIRST Robotics The 1531 veteran teams returning to the FIRST Robotics Competition know anything goes when it comes to the rules for the annual game, which change every year. And that's what makes it fun. |
Technology Research News
April 7, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Robot guided by its voice Researchers generally help robots navigate by giving them the sense of sight. A simpler approach is based on another human trait: listening to the sound of one's own voice. It also helps if the walls have ears. |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2013
Laura Howes |
Soft robots take a leap forward It might not be able to leap buildings in a single bound but the latest soft robot to escape George Whitesides' lab is a jumper rather than a crawler and can jump at least 30 times its body height. |
Popular Mechanics
March 5, 2008
Jennifer Bogo |
Students Dig in to FIRST Robotics Race With Next-Gen Builds Hundreds of high school teams across the nation vie to win the FIRST Robotics Competition. |
National Defense
July 2010 |
Military Robots Gain Speed Time can be of the essence when operators are using robots to go downrange to investigate a roadside bomb. |
National Defense
April 2015
Valerie Insinna |
Robot Puts Out Shipboard Fires Another possibility currently under development is sending robots to find and put out fires aboard Navy ships. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer R2-D2 and Rosie the robot maid may be coming soon to a home, or nursing home, near you. Thanks to advances in computing and navigation technology, robots -- including sophisticated robot toys and appliances -- are now being developed to serve people directly. |
