iRobot is developing a new series of military robots that detect chemicals. Under a $3.3 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office, iRobot ...

Have you ever wondered how our brave soldiers deal with nasty stuff like chemical and biological weapons? Currently, it's a risky and time-consuming process. Soldiers have to suit up in cumbersome NBC ...

LARAMIE - The National Science Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant for University of Wyoming researchers to determine if swarms of mini-robots can successfully detect the sources of chemical or ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Living organisms utilize sophisticated chemical signaling to share information, locate mates, and defend territories. Harnessing similar abilities could revolutionize robotic ...

Not content with creating Terminator-like soldiers such as Atlas, and the Avatar mind-meld program that allows human soldiers to control their robotic equivalents from afar, the US Army is now working ...

(Nanowerk News) Chemists of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot with an integrated AI-driven machine learning unit. Dubbed ‘RoboChem’, the benchtop ...

Oxford Dynamics, a machine learning firm in the United Kingdom, has built a versatile robot capable of taking on human responsibilities after nuclear, chemical, or biological disasters. Called ...

Researchers have developed AI-powered mobile robots for highly efficient chemical synthesis research. Standing 1.75 meters (5.7 feet) tall, the robots address three main challenges in chemical ...

When old food packaging, discarded children’s toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits of ...

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed AI-driven mobile robots that can carry out chemical synthesis research with axtraordinairy efficiency. In a study publishing in the journal ...