Bird-Inspired Robot With Innovative Wing Design Achieves Self-Takeoff and Controlled Flight

RoboFalcon 2.0 mimics bird wing motions Robot achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight Wing system couples flapping, sweeping, folding ...

Watch this robot get wrecked by a chainsaw … and then adapt

The remarkable robot dog — or more accurately, its AI-powered brain — can even handle having its legs extended by wooden poles, or having wheels attached. Short of a rocket-propelled grenade coming ...
Futurism

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
IEEE

Reactive Robot Navigation Using Quasi-Conformal Mappings and Control Barrier Functions

Abstract: This article presents a robot control algorithm suitable for safe reactive navigation tasks in cluttered environments. The proposed approach consists of transforming the robot workspace into ...