A simulator of catastrophe to improve the programming of
autonomous robots of rescue.

Nick Jennings and his team
(1) of School of Electronics & Computer
Science (ECS) of the university of Southampton (the United Kingdom) have
been just rewarded for the development from a simulator of catastrophes intended
to improve the programming of autonomous robots of [...]

Snake robots can be built in all shapes and sizes, from the three meters long water powered hydraulic fire fighting models developed by a company called Sintef, to a medical version developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around inside the human body. Though snakebots can vary greatly in size and [...]

The DARPA Grand Challenge is a government-sponsored competition to see if robotic vehicles can successfully navigate a great distance (approximately 150 miles) without human intervention. The race course includes obstacles such as tunnels, ditches, and berms. The initial prize was $1 million, with each successive race worth more until someone wins.
The first race in March [...]

Lipson’s robots are made up of a series of modular cubes – called “molecubes” – each containing identical machinery and the complete computer program for replication. The cubes have electromagnets on their faces that allow them to selectively attach to and detach from one another, and a complete robot consists of several [...]