Defense One

Building maritime drones in months—not years—could be key to creating the Navy’s hybrid fleet

Saronic, a drone-boat startup based in Austin, Texas, announced during a panel at a General Catalyst Institute event Monday ...
The Daily Dot

You trust robots more if you’re allowed to build them yourself, research suggests

The study looked at 80 undergrads, and had them take part in a robot assembly study. Each group was given a Kumotek KT-X Gladiator robot. One group watched a demonstration on how to install the ...
MLive

In an engineering lab at the University of Michigan, tiny robots, boats and bridges inspired by origami

The tiny robots start out flat, thin wafers of layered silicon, gold and plastic. It’s the heat created by an electric current that makes them fold along etched grooves, bending themselves into ...
The Atlantic

'Pacific Rim' Is All Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em Robots — Now with a Gigantic Boat

To the glee of a certain segment on the Internet—a certain huge segment—Warner Bros. and Guillermo Del Toro released footage Monday of the summer blockbuster Pacific Rim. This glimpse of the July ...
Hackaday

Build Yourself A Screw Propelled Robot To Tackle The Dirt

Wheels and tracks are common choices for robot propulsion, but they’re not the only game in town. You can do some nifty things with long extruded screws , and they work pretty well in soft terrain.