At first glance, the HMR looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie. Picture a spherical cage that can move on its own omnidirectional path, effortlessly rolling across the ground.

My first robot stop was Acemate's booth, where it had its tennis robot rolling back and forth on a mini tennis court opposite ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - Researchers at MIT’s “Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab” recently unveiled a new robot that plays soccer. Not just fun and games, the new creation comes from hard work ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can play table tennis with the skill and flair of a human player. The robot smashes returns at ...

If people are going to stay on the Moon for long periods, they'll need to consider resources below the surface — and a rather unusual robot might just help. The European Space Agency is backing work ...

Arizona's Revolute Robotics has presented its autonomous Hybrid Mobility Robot (HMR), a whirling, spherical cage that can fly like a multicopter, or roll in any direction using two gyroscopic gimbal ...

August 13, 2006 Contrasting with the bipedal humanoid robot portrayed in science fiction, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball.

[Jochen Alt]’s Paul is one of the coolest robots of its type, and maybe one of the coolest robots period. Personality? Check. Omniwheels? Check. Gratuitous feats of derring-do? Check. Paul is a ball ...

Fans of Sphero, the robotic ball that you control with your smartphone, will soon be able to use the ball to navigate fields of flying space rocks as they blast them apart with an anti-matter cannon, ...

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Robots learn to imitate human movements from surface electromyograms of muscles; robots successfully learn to trap a dropped ball like a soccer player Dr. Kee-hoon Kim's team at the Center for ...

Japan is prepping an unusual robot to explore the Moon — and it's clearly influenced by the country's tech industry. The Byte reports that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up ...