Flying robots, also known as miniature aerial vehicles, are useful in several surveillance situations –– the robots can swoop down to snap photos to aid in a search-and-rescue mission or assess the ...

We’re all pretty well-acquainted with the obstacle avoiding robot. These little inventions use a proximity sensor to detect an object in front of the robot, then circumvent the object accordingly.

In an age of increasingly advanced robotics, one team has well and truly bucked the trend, instead finding inspiration within the pinhead-sized brain of a tiny flying insect in order to build a robot ...

Tiny BOT is a simple obstacle avoiding robot with two wheels that can be fabricated using a handful of generally available and inexpensive discrete components. The robot can perform avoidance ...

Nissan has created a new technology which is used in this fun robot to demonstrate how it would work in other applications, the Nissan BR32C. The Technology is designed to be used in cars to avoid ...

A robotic hand capable of grasping fragile objects — like a potato chip or raspberry — without damaging them has been developed by a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin ...