Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...

Police have used drones and robots over the years for purposes ranging from getting an eye-in-the-sky view of accidents to remotely tear-gassing a hard-to-reach suspect. Many anticipate police use of ...

Robots, the team argues, can mimic these abilities using a quantum magnetometer (which detects magnetic field direction).

Imagine taking on a mountain trail with loose rocks, gaps between them, sudden inclines, and tight squeezes between boulders. But instead of sharing the trail with another hiker, you spot a robot ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The project envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — A robot designed by students at Notre Dame is transforming the world of search and rescue. Rescue teams will be able to use this technology to locate people stuck under ...

When disaster strikes, drones and robots can be sent into danger zones to scout for survivors. The RoBoa from a student team at ETH Zurich is designed to snake its way through debris that would stop ...

An innovative algorithm called Spectral Expansion Tree Search helps autonomous robotic systems make optimal choices on the move. In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of ...

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Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there are vast ...

Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...