Robotic eel seeks out water pollution

Engineers build a device that automatically blends wine to the user's taste, letting them customise their tipple based on simple terms like full-bodied or light, dry or sweet.

A robotics platform for the evaluation and the rehabilitation of the lower limbs and body has been developed by a spin-off of the Italian Institute of Technology.

Estonian inventor creates a robotic five-color spray-painter that can produce murals 100-metres tall on buildings.

Envirobot - a robotic eel that can swim through contaminated water to find the source of pollution - is being developed at EPFL in Switzerland.

A Polish engineering student has combined his passion for music with technology to design a robotic arm that plays music.

Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) are developing a hand exoskeleton controlled by brainwaves which they say enhances the performance of brain-machine interfaces.

26-year-old Nigerian, Silas Adekunle has become one of the world's highest paid robotics engineer. Adekunle achieved the feat after signing a deal with technology and innovation giant, Apple Inc.

Someday, in the not-too-distant future, a robot similar to this snake-like prototype could help save lives.⁣⁣ The robot snake was developed at John Hopkins University could help advance search and rescue technology, says Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chen Li. ⁣

Boston Dynamics robotic dog known as 'Spot' designed to detect radiation, was spotted working at Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor number four, as the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management reported on October 23.

China has launched an unmanned spacecraft that aims to retrieve rock and soil samples from the moon. It is the first such mission in several decades and comes as Beijing continues to step up its space program.

In Johannesburg, three robots navigate the corridors of the 453-room upmarket Hotel Sky, answering guests' queries and delivering room service orders. Put in place before the pandemic, the hotel has embraced the new technology even more than it had originally inteded, as a way to help reduce the risk of infection by Covid-19 in a country that has recorded nearly 45,000 deaths.

Grace a robotic medical assistant was created to relieve the burden on the frontline medical staff who have been overworked due to the pandemic. The robot is designed to interact with people in isolation.