https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28243-painting-bot-follows-your-eyes-to-create-art/ It’s no Picasso, but it’s a start. A robotic arm that can be controlled with your eyes has just painted its first picture: a simple image of a house, grass and the sun. Developed by Aldo Faisal of Imperial College London and his team, the system takes a different approach to that used for [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeX5VqerOP4 The picture at the top of this article almost definitely isn’t Verb’s new surgical robot. It’s Taurus, from SRI Robotics, which (according to a press release) “is licensing next-generation robotics technology to Verb Surgical that we believe will impact both the open and minimally invasive surgery markets and ultimately make the benefits of robotic [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gai4SbRIU A 26-year-old man who is paralysed in both legs has walked for the first time in five years – just by thinking about it. He is the first person to have his brain activity recorded and used to control a muscle-stimulating device in his legs. Every year, 250,000 to 500,000 people worldwide suffer spinal [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYz7g-qLjs At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, MIT researchers presented a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter from front to back. Weighing only a third of a gram, the robot can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, [...]