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| Vacuum robot is trilingual, knows witty dialect KEYC TV AP Sports News Video A man accused of abducting a mother and her three daughters was a family friend described as being like an uncle to the girls. The intense search for a man accused of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three daughters continued ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Vacuum robot talks 3 languages, plus witty dialect: 'I'm cool and feeling good.' Washington Post The Japanese electronics maker said Tuesday that the robot also speaks the Kansai dialect of southwestern Japan widely viewed as more comical and witty than standard Japanese. But its linguistic abilities are designed for fun, not for following complex ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Video: Herb the Robot Butler Microwaves Your Dinner For You Popular Science By Rebecca Boyle Posted 05.02.2012 at 10:00 am 0 Comments They can fetch sandwiches just fine, but robots can have a hard time cooking meals, with proper pancake flipping a serious and daunting challenge. So why not have them take a decidedly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| North Brunswick High School Creates Robot That Can Play Basketball Huffington Post Rasheed -- the brainchild of North Brunswick's talented robotics team -- can pick up a ball on its own and launch a shot that arcs clearly into the hoop from the foul line. (Check out the video above to witness Rasheed's jaw-dropping skills for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lavner Summer Robotics Camp for kids expands to four Philly-area locations ... Technically Philly Most of Justin Lavner's summer camps are designed to get kids up and out of the house, so it's hard to see where his summer robotics and video game programming camps fit in. But these camps help exercise that other part of children's bodies that tend... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| VIDEO: Lego Robotics Club Patch.com By Jennifer Lucarelli Each group had the same box of Lego parts and had to create a project based on the theme "Snack Attack." Many teams compete in state-wide and national competitions, but this was a pilot program the school tried out this spring. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Eco-Friendly Robot Is in the Works [VIDEO] Mashable Researchers at the University of Bristol are developing Ecobot, an eco-friendly robotthat decomposes once its mission is completed. Dr. Jonathan Rossiter, a senior lecturer in the University's engineering mathematics department, received two years' ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| HERB the Robot: Kitchen Butler Phoenix New Times (blog) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Personal Robotics Lab created him to develop the technologies necessary to make Rosie the Robot a reality. Here's a videoof HERB being introduced by the lab's founder, professor Siddhartha Srinivasa: We ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Upstart Mountain View robotics team looking to next year's competition Contra Costa Times At the VEX world championships in Anaheim last month, the 3-year-old team from Mountain View won the best-educational-video prize -- teaching other teams how to use triangles in robot construction -- and also won the top programming award in its ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chaos reigns at LEGO robot challenge Juneau Empire “The first (robot), there is no navigation, Wittig said. “Its aim, and then it goes on an arc and them comes back on an arc,” Wittig said. Their second robot also failed to perform as expected. The video analysis paid off as they improved in their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sensing systems for robots could help blind navigate ZDNet (blog) By Chris Jablonski | May 3, 2012, 8:08am PDT Summary: Parisian researchers have developed a 3D navigation system for the blind using a pair of glasses equipped with cameras and sensors like those used in robot exploration. The technologies that help ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ReconRobotics Delivers 13 Recon Scout XT Robots to DC Area Tactical Teams MarketWatch (press release) Once deployed, operators can direct the ultra-quiet robot to move through an environment and transmit video reconnaissance through walls and doors to a small, handheld operator control unit. This capability can reveal the location of armed subjects,... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Purdue Researcher Helps Robots 'See' in 3-D Like Humans MarketWatch (press release) The goal is to simulate visual perception in the robot so it can "see" more like humans. "Enabling robots and other machines to see the world in 3-D like humans is one of the biggest challenges in robotics and artificial intelligence," said Pizlo, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Meet HERB, the Robot Butler That Knows How to Use a Microwave TIME That's why I'm so happy to discover HERB, which is short for Home Exploring RobotButler. Unlike most butlers, HERB is equipped with a spinning laser that allows it to create three-dimensional models of the world around it. In the video above, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Since When Does Brookings Make Video Games? - By Michael Peck Foreign Policy We might see evolution in other directions of robotics, such as bigger is not always better. An example in the game is the armed tactical quadcopter. As part of the marketing for the game, we put out a viral video of one of these made real. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Robot to help stroke victims Jackson Hole News&Guide The robot is a rolling workstation with a large screen and video camera. There is space for a laptop and ad- ditional medical equipment, including a stethoscope connecting to the device. The physician working in Idaho or Utah will use a special laptop ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Real-life transforming robot car puts Hasbro to shame The Verge The work of Kenji Ishida at JS Robotics in Japan, it uses 22 servo motors in all, and is apparently the eighth attempt to build a credible Sideswipe equivalent. Who wants to see version nine? For now, we'll make do with the video below. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Important Tips For Surviving the Inevitable Robot Uprising Gizmodo This lovely how-to video by Epipheo picks the brain of Dainel H. Wilson, a best-selling author with a PHD in robotics. And he provides lots of fantastic tips on how humans can best their robot enemies, even if we're outgunned and overpowered. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Will This Burger Making Robot Change the Food Service Industry Forever? FOODBEAST About a month ago, the company got a quick nod by the tech community and a shakyvideo by StartupGrind that caught the group during a work day. Jump to 2:38 for the interesting stuff, see company president Alex Vardakostas speak, joke about their CAD... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| LASR: behind the curtain of the Navy's robotics laboratory Engadget There are two long holes on either side of the robot, from which sharp synthetic fins protrude. Unfortunately, the demo isn't in working order today, so we're forced to crowd around the Latitude to watch the UUV swim laps across the pool in video form. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| This tiny car transforming into robot by itself is pretty cool Ubergizmo While they do transform from their respective vehicles into robots, sadly the process is not an automated one and neither is it as cool as what we saw in the television series or the movies. Perhaps that might change in the future but thanks to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How close to reality are the androids in Alien and Prometheus? io9 The viral video for David 8 has an amusing line about his ability to act outside ethical boundaries, but the widespread adoption of androids will hinge, boringly, on safety. In their paper "Do People Hold a Robot Morally Accountable for the Harm it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Trouble With Call of Duty's Scary New War of the Future Kotaku Given the predicable hype, it is surprising to see among the promotional material a serious, high-production-value "documentary" about 21st century warfare, touching upon cyberterrorism, robotics and counter-insurgency. The 6-part video—available here ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Four former Bomb Squad members come back to help Baxter Bulletin JOSH DOOLEY/THE BAXTER BULLETIN From teaching science to the next generation to using huge robots to build cars, from making medical devices that help save lives to repairing vintage pinball machines, four alumni of the Baxter Bomb Squad who now serve ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Robotics;Notes Intro Movie Turns Up The Sci-Fi With Augmented Reality Siliconera 9:13am We've already seen trailers for 5pb's next sci-fi adventure title, Robotics;Notes, but 5pb showed off the game's opening movie today. This one definitely has much more of a sci-fi feel than most of the game's previous videos. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Make's latest weekend project - two solar-powered BEAM bots Boing Boing ... May 6 [Video Link] Here's MAKE's latest weekend project - two solar-powered BEAM bots. BEAM stands for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics. From Wikipedia: "This is a term that refers to a style of robotics that primarily uses simple ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Manhattan College Religious Studies Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant Albany Times Union Robert Geraci, Ph.D., associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College, was recently awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar grant to research the social study of artificial intelligence and robotics at the Indian Institute of Science in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Is Origami the Future of Tech? BusinessWeek Today researchers in robotics, biology, math, and computer science are immersing themselves in that method. Scientists are looking at how materials and molecules wrinkle, drape, flex, and crease. They're using folding to design everything from robots... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Girls get geek chic at DigiGirlz' hands-on workshops Sussex Countian Jeter was struck by how the remote control used for the robotics exercise was similar to the remotes used to play video games. She and her teammates attempted to guide theirrobot to gather up balls from one side of the stage to the other, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| ESA Portal - Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover As a first step, ESA is linking the International Space Station and Earth for remotely controlling terrestrial test robots from the orbital outpost. This Meteron (Multi-purpose End-To-End Robotic Operations Network) initiative is a testbed for future ... ESA Top News |
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