Mars it is the most Earth-like of the nine planets that make up the solar system. The great distance from Earth (400 million km from the Earth at the farthest point of its orbit) makes travels to Mars long and dangerous. Hence its exploration has been so far carried out only by robotics means. Thanks [...]

The first robot capable of jumping like a grasshopper and rolling like a ball, can play a key role in future space explorations. The ‘Jollbot’ has been created by Rhodri Armor, a PhD student at the University of Bath. It is expected that his creation, which can jump over obstacles and roll like a ball [...]

The Group of Automatic Control Department of Electrical and Electronics Faculty of Science and Technology is studying the stimulus-response characteristics of various types of materials for use in the generation and measurement of precise movements in electromechanical systems in miniature and in robotics. A research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Faculty of [...]

How gear automated submarine could quickly and securely anchored in the sediment? Engineers have raised the issue and found the answer in kind, drawing the knife, this long shell which plunges deep and high-speed sand beaches. His secret: change the properties of the sediment that surrounds it. All sailors know. Installing an anchor to hold [...]

The insects are proving to be an invaluable source of ideas for a researcher who hopes that the robots can perform the same types of collective tasks that make the ants and bees.    Dr. Zhang Hong, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, and his team, working in [...]