There is a place on FIU's smoke-free campus where cigarette smoking is allowed. But not just any cigarette. And only if you’re a robot. Professor Hoshang Unwalla, a researcher at the FIU Herbert ...

There’s a common popular science demonstration involving “soap boats,” in which liquid soap poured onto the surface of water creates a propulsive flow driven by gradients in surface tension. But it ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...

In life science research involving cells, experiments are increasingly being conducted using robots. However, the impact of experimental parameters set for robots, such as the flow rate for aspirating ...

How can a horde of active robots be automatically brought to a standstill? By arresting their dynamics in a self-sustained way. This phenomenon was discovered by physicists at Heinrich Heine ...

You log into your accounts and your apps, preferences, and contacts should sync to the new hardware. But in the world of ...

That seems like something they should have thought of. They've open-sourced the design, publishing it for anyone to build and develop in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. The robot ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size ...