Neato's flagship robot vacuum now adds multifloor cleaning to its arsenal. Announced today, this new feature is part of a software upgrade to the $799 Neato Botvac D7 Connected. D7 owners can apply ...

Imagine you're a firefighter arriving at a burning building, but you have no idea what the interior layout of that building is. Do you just enter, then risk your life by randomly walking up and down ...

Aerial drones are widely utilized for mapping, with the maps that they create subsequently being used by us humans. In an experiment recently conducted at the ETH Zurich research institute, however, a ...

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London: Scientists have developed 'Robat' -- a fully autonomous terrestrial robot with bat-like qualities that uses echolocation to move through novel environments while mapping them based only on ...

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An artist’s depiction of LRAUV under sea ice. Using photo-chemical sensors, the robot scans the density of a billowing cloud of oil coming from an ocean floor well. The red and yellow objects are ...

The ARPG, a research group at CU Boulder directed by Prof. Christoffer Heckman, is one of the research groups that have been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete ...