Adaptation Archive

  • From Complex Living Systems to Smarter Computers

    From Complex Living Systems to Smarter Computers

    Posted on March 26, 2013 |
    The European collaborative research Project “SWAM-ORGAN” tries to understand complex living systems such as cells making an organ, or the spatially-controlled growing of a plant, and to apply these principles to technological systems, in particular more intelligent and adaptable robot swarms. The Project, with a...

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  • 4-D printing: “you design something, you print it, it evolves”

    4-D printing: “you design something, you print it, it evolves”

    Posted on February 27, 2013 |
    There are 3-D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3-D mills that tear things down, grinding away one small chunk at a time. But Skylar Tibbits today offered a very provocative alternative: technology for 3-D printing where...

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  • Robot ‘race’ to fix damaged Fukushima nuclear plant

    Robot ‘race’ to fix damaged Fukushima nuclear plant

    Posted on December 12, 2012 |
    Japanese company Mitsubishi has unveiled a radiation-resistant robot aimed at cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Other firms, among them Hitachi and Toshiba, have also rolled out their own remote-controlled bots recently. The plant was damaged during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Robots...

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  • Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife

    Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife

    Posted on December 3, 2012 |
    The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable. The little device is called a milli-motein...

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  • Awareness Challenges

    Adaptation Challenges

    Posted on September 13, 2012 |
    1. How to achieve adatpivity at runtime? Martin Wirsing

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  • Self-Powered, Homeostatic Nanomaterial

    Self-Powered, Homeostatic Nanomaterial

    Posted on July 16, 2012 |
    Living organisms have developed sophisticated ways to maintain stability in a changing environment. The integration of similar features in artificial materials, however, has remained a challenge. In a new study, engineers present a strategy for building self-thermoregulating nanomaterials that can, in principle, be tailored to...

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  • Artificial Cerebellum and Robotic Human-Like Object Handling

    Artificial Cerebellum and Robotic Human-Like Object Handling

    Posted on July 3, 2012 |
    University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like precision. The cerebellum is the part of the human brain that controls the locomotor system and coordinates body movements. via Artificial Cerebellum Than Enables Robotic...

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  • Robots Get a Feel for the World

    Robots Get a Feel for the World

    Posted on June 19, 2012 |
    What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. But with the right sensors, actuators and software, robots can be given the sense of feel — or at least the ability to identify different materials by touch. Researchers at the...

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  • Guillaume Dugue

    Guillaume Dugue Interview

    Posted on June 14, 2012 |
    Guillaume Dugue is a Ph.D student at LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse, France. His research work covers QoS and autonomic approaches for mobile and multimedia applications.

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  • ‘Living’ Micro-Robot Could Detect Diseases in Humans

    ‘Living’ Micro-Robot Could Detect Diseases in Humans

    Posted on April 2, 2012 |
    A tiny prototype robot that functions like a living creature is being developed which one day could be safely used to pinpoint diseases within the human body. Called ‘Cyberplasm’, it will combine advanced microelectronics with latest research in biomimicry (technology inspired by nature). The aim...

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