A team of researchers at the University of Washington has unveiled MilliMobile, a tiny self-driving robot that relies solely on ambient light or radio waves for power. This robot is equipped with a ...

Seeker BOT is nothing but a simple light seeking robot. In this case, light source is the object and theSeeker BOT is moving towards it by comparing the light intensity on left and right sides. Making ...

In physics, particles are small localized objects with physical characteristics like mass or volume. From those humble ingredients, our virtually limitless universe is built. The concept, presented in ...

This Line Following Robot sensor or surface scanner for robots is a very simple, stamp-sized, short range (5-10mm) Infrared proximity detector wired around a standard reflective opto-sensor CNY70(IC1) ...

Light in comparison moves at a whopping 299,792,458 meters per second (or about 671 million miles per hour). You’re going to have to have a pretty fast finger on a stopwatch to measure the time it ...

Who likes robots? If you said yes, then you would love Sunny the Robot (The Young Scientists Club)! It is a light-controlled robot, and when you put it in light (artificial or sunlight), it moves.

Human eyes need a certain amount of time to adjust to light changes, step from a dark cinema into the afternoon sun and you’ll be squinting for a bit. Now imagine a robot that can handle that shift ...

Three years ago, we first heard about GelSight – an experimental new system for imaging microscopic objects. At the time, its suggested applications were in fields such as aerospace, forensics, ...

A hundred years ago, the state-of-the-art of automotive technology was being pushed forward as quickly by shade-tree mechanics as it was by formal industrial R&D.; To paraphrase John Steinbeck: "Two ...

Robots these days, especially humanoids, have one problem: it doesn’t feel nice or lifelike when you touch them. This is where an invention by Japanese robot startup Touchence comes in. Their ...