A swarm of 100 robots took a trip down the Sacramento River yesterday in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. Demonstrating the marriage of robotics and the ...

Today, both submarine and surface ships use sonar for navigation. But sonar and other vision systems face various limitations. So why not imitating fish? For millions of years, fish have relied on "a ...

A fleet of 100 robots floated down the Sacramento River on Wednesday to demonstrate their ability to measure the pace of the river's flow and to navigate the delta's water. The foot-long devices, 40 ...

Soft robots can be far more flexible than their rigid relatives, but their vast ranges of motion makes it hard to map the location of their body parts. A new algorithm could give them greater control ...

BigDog is a four-legged, three feet tall and three feet long, 240 pound dog-like robot (Image courtesy of Boston Dynamics) Boston Dynamics, another great spin-off of MIT, has developed robots that ...

It’s been a couple of years and a couple of million dollars. Finally, researchers and graduate students who have spent years developing intelligent water sensors released them into the Sacramento ...