November 23, 2016 Electronic tongue created that can tell beers apart A team of Spanish researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have created an electronic "tongue" that can tell the difference between beer varieties and the amount of alcohol each variety contains.
November 22, 2016 Chinese restaurant owner ditches human waiters for robots The café in the northeastern province of Ningbo is now staffed by expensive machines.
November 21, 2016 $2,700 robotic bartender has a drink ready when you get home An Atlanta-based artificial intelligence company called Monsieur has designed an in-home robotic bartender to supply your every cocktail need.
November 15, 2016 Eye robot: Medical device can carry out cataract surgery with precise cuts Product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants developed a medical robot capable of performing one of the world's most common but delicate operations: cataract surgery. For now, however, it's only a tech demonstration.
November 14, 2016 New record! Robot solves Rubik's Cube in less than a second Solving a Rubik's Cube is an impressive feat by itself, but now, a robot can do it in record time, cracking the 3D puzzle about 10 times faster than the human who holds the world record
November 1, 2016 Harvard has built a cigarette-smoking robot, and it's here to help Researchers working to discover more about how smoke impacts people's health have developed an artificial human lung airway-on-a-chip and smoking robot to carry out more accurate tests.
October 11, 2016 Scientists making fishy robots for naval research An eel powered by batteries that checks for mines. A surveillance jellyfish robot, powered by the atoms around it. A robot bluegill sunfish. The Office of Naval Research is making those visions of the future a reality.
October 11, 2016 Exclusive look at the 'MacGyver' robot A research team led by Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Mike Stilman, a rock star in robotics, says its MacGyver robot can use everyday objects in its environment to accomplish high-level tasks.
October 11, 2016 Georgia Tech building 'Decepticons' Future robots could deceive not just other robots but human adversaries -- thanks to devious behavior common in nature.
October 4, 2016 MIT uses 3D printing technology to create shock absorbing 'skin' Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have announced that they used 3D printing technology to create custom shock-absorbing “dampers,” or “skins,” to protect drones and robots.