Engineering News

• Slideshow: Feds Study Human Brain; DARPA Wants to Make Robots Autonomous May 20, 2013
  The government wants to study your brain, and DARPA wants to use similar information to give robots true autonomy beyond any artificial intelligence developed to date. Sound like science fiction? It's not. […]
• Harvard, MIT Researchers Design 3D Printed, Self-Assembling Robots May 16, 2013
  Researchers from MIT and Harvard have designed a 3D printed robot that crawls like an inchworm and can self-assemble with an electric jolt. […]
• Video: Seahorse Armor Inspires Robot Design May 16, 2013
  Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are designing a robotic arm that takes inspiration from the loose, flexible, yet very strong structure of the armored plates on a seahorse's tail. […]
• Rethink Reveals Version of Baxter Industrial Robot for Researchers May 10, 2013
  Rethink Robotics is giving researchers an ability to get up close and personal with its Baxter industrial robot with a new research version they can use to build custom software and applications. […]
• Video Blog: Life-Changing Inventions & the Big Bucks May 8, 2013
  DN brand director Rich Nass picks two important topics for his weekly video blog -- engineering starting salaries and the 20th anniversary of the Internet. […]