[video_player id=”RLZrhICT”]Video: This robot has a tangle of rats neurons in place of control software, it’s biological “brain” even allows it to avoid obstacles. It was developed at Reading University, UK.
[video_player id=”hfipbpZj”]Video: Swarms of robots that use electromagnetic forces to cling together are being developed with the goal of enabling them to take on almost any shape, at Carnegie Mellon University, US.
[video_player id=”VFVp7nJH”]Video: This human-like robot head can spookily mimic a person’s facial expressions in realtime. The roboticists at Bristol University, UK, say the work will help make robots easier to connect with.
[video_player id=”rMhFSJgr”]Video: These cyborg insects have been turned into living robots – electronics controls their behaviour by interfacing with their nerves. The research is funded by the US defence research agency Darpa, which imagines future cyborg spies.
[video_player id=”VIf3mdIy”]Video: After two weeks locked in a room together, these “singing” robots evolved a secret language all of their own. Their creator at the University of Plymouth, UK, hopes that they will help him to compose music that no human could.
