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A robot descended beneath a floating wind farm and found a prehistoric-looking deep-sea fish building its own “reef” beside the turbine towers
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (656+ words) A marine research vessel instigated a deep-sea reconnaissance dive targeted at a pioneering floating wind farm. The work-class ROV enabled an unprecedented look at deep-sea ecosystems around the infrastructure. The unexpected footage from around 328 feet showed a prehistoric-looking fish gathering…...
It looks like a white beluga, but this robot was "trained" by sea urchins and now skims oil from the ocean while separating it from the water
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (598+ words) Picture a robot that looks like a mini beluga whale or dolphin, gliding around the ocean. It has a super important job. It looks almost effortless as the bot travels the surface of the water, vacuuming up toxic oil spills…...
A robot drilled through Antarctica's ice shelf and discovered an underwater city the size of Orlando with 60 million nests belonging to transparent, antifreeze-blooded fish until seals turn it into a massacre
1+ week, 2+ day ago (481+ words) Beneath Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf, in near-total darkness and under hundreds of meters of ice, an autonomous robot named LASSIE glided 1.5 meters above the seafloor, capturing 20 frames per second. What its cameras revealed wasn’t rock or sediment — it was nests....
A five-and-a-half-foot robot named "Lightning" ran a half-marathon through Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, and the liquid-cooling system keeping it alive is borrowed from a world almost no one expected
1+ week, 4+ day ago (715+ words) On an April morning in Beijing, a crowd of 12,000 runners lined up for a half marathon. Among them stood something that had never entered a race before, a bright red running machine. It stood about five and a half feet…...
A robot sat across the table from professional athletes in Tokyo and did something no machine had ever managed before, and it learned nothing from watching humans
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (776+ words) The gym in Tokyo felt ordinary enough. A regulation table, a licensed umpire, two players stretching at opposite ends. But one of those players had no heartbeat and no nerves. It waited at its end of the table, having never…...
A beetle solves a navigation problem in total darkness that even our most advanced machines still struggle with
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (760+ words) Some of the best navigators on Earth don’t have GPS. They don’t even have much of a brain. One of them is a beetle. A dung beetle. On the darkest, moonless nights, it can roll a ball of dung in…...
MIT's "artificial bee" just shattered every robotic flight record and researchers say it could one day pollinate our crops
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (785+ words) Inside an MIT lab, a robot smaller and lighter than a paperclip recently hovered in midair for nearly 17 uninterrupted minutes — long enough that the graduate student running the experiment later described it as the slowest 1,000 seconds of his life. For…...
Sony's table-tennis robot didn't just outplay elite athletes — it invented moves they'd never seen
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (538+ words) Peter Dürr could barely track the ball as it blurred across the net. On one side: Taira Mayuka, one of the world’s top table-tennis players. On the other: a robotic arm called Ace. Mayuka launched a twisting smash that should…...
Robot designed to blow on your coffee and cool it down automatically unveiled at CES
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (612+ words) A world of robots is a lot closer than you might think. For decades, we have looked towards science fiction movies to draw inspiration for our robotic dreams. As science and our technological prowess improve, new types of smart robots…...
We've seen it so many times in sci-fi, but it may arrive American homes after all — First-ever domestic-task robot talks, cleans and even feels part of your family
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (600+ words) A robot certainly has been a crowning target for the sci-fi community. As technology advances, our progress in developing artificial intelligence has come a long way in a very short time frame. AI now rules almost every aspect of our…...