At the NYC Toy Fair in February Klutz introduced a new book called "Invasion of the Bristlebots", kicking off a flurry of controversy and accusations. If you remember way back in 2007 the talented ...

Leaning in to the natural “handedness” of vibrating bots revealed “qualitatively new phenomena”, say physicists ...

After uproar in the blogosphere over whether the publisher of a new book would credit the work of two Silicon Valley makers, it seems all has been worked out. It appears that an agreement has been ...

The collective behaviour of insects is one of the wonders of nature. In particular, many species of termite somehow join forces to create the most extraordinary mounds–complex structures with ...

Inventors say they created the "bristelebot"--a combo of a robot and a toothbrush--in 2007, before a book on same subject was done, but publisher says book was already in works then. A ‘bristlebot’ is ...

(Nanowerk News) Bristlebots are robots without sensors or brains that do things that robots without sensors or brains do. As it turns out, this is a lot more than you might expect, since researchers ...

(Phys.org) —A robot research team at Harvard University has found that tiny robots that move by vibrating bristle strands when grouped together, form spontaneously into groups—exhibiting, what the ...

At the spring arts ITP show the other day, designer Christian Cerrito had a demonstration which will have had bristlebot designers everywhere smacking their foreheads in a "My god, that’s obvious!" ...

After the success of our “Tinker Birthday Party” for child one, child two also wanted to tinker together with his friends for his birthday. So we decided to have a “robot tinker party” and build ...

Bristlebots were not just child's play - Harvard University had recently used large numbers of them in a study on swarm behaviour, Dr Paulin said. In the long term, Dr Paulin hoped bristlebots could ...

Visiting third-grade students from Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland, were able to bring Bristlebots to life at Naval Service Warfare Center, Carderock Division Oct. 31 ...

At the NYC Toy Fair in February Klutz introduced a new book called "Invasion of the Bristlebots", kicking off a flurry of controversy and accusations. If you remember way back in 2007 the talented ...