 The next step in robot development is child’s play April 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Teaching robots to understand enough about the real world to allow them act independently has proved to be much more difficult than first thought. | |
 Cornell robot sets a record for distance walking April 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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We're not sure what brand of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps -- a little over 9 ... | |
 When robots learn social skills June 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could ... | |
 Wearable Robotics Aid Construction Workers February 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Applied scientists and engineers at Nagayo University in Japan introduced a prototype wearable half-robotic device designed for carpentry workers. The study of carpentry workers utilizing the device in the ... | |
Meet Nexi, MIT Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms. Called Nexi, ... | |
 South Korea creates female android May 04, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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South Korean scientists say they have created the world's second android -- a female named EveR-1. | |
Robotic crawler detects wear in power lines December 22, 2006 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound. To your right runs a cable that looks identical, but damaged insulation means the cable is vulnerable to a short. Can you tell the difference? | |
 Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest May 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Robots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," ... | |
 Enter 'Junior': Stanford team's next-generation robot joins DARPA Challenge February 28, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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When five autonomous vehicles, including the Stanford Racing Team's winning entry "Stanley," finished the 2005 Grand Challenge in the still Nevada desert, they passed a milestone of artificial intelligence. ... | |
 Soccer robots compete for the title April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Robot soccer is an ambitious high-tech competition for universities, research institutes and industry. Several major tournaments are planned for 2008, the biggest of which is the 'RoboCup German Open.' From ... | |
 NC State Unveils New DARPA Urban Challenge Driverless Vehicle November 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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In a race that can only be described as futuristic, the Insight Racing team will field a driverless Lotus Elise to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The team will modify the sports car with sensors ... | |
 NASA's robotic sub readies for dive into Earth's deepest sinkhole February 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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An underwater robot, shaped like a flattened orange, maneuvered untethered and autonomously within a 115-meter-deep sinkhole during tests this month in Mexico, a prelude to its mission to probe the mysterious ... | |
 Robot fetches objects with just a point and a click March 19, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Robots are fluent in their native language of 1 and 0 absolutes but struggle to grasp the nuances and imprecise nature of human language. While scientists are making slow, incremental progress in their quest ... | |
 CU Team to Build a Self-Driving Car for City Streets October 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Last year, the goal was to build a vehicle that could drive itself, without human intervention, across 132 miles of desert with unpaved roads, ditches, berms, sandy ground, standing water, rocks and boulders, ... | |
 Latest in Robotics: Shuffle, Twists & Turns 90° November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The robot has come one shuffle step closer to becoming an aid to its human counterparts. The scientific explorers in robotics led by Dr. Koeda take a series of shuffle steps for mankind. | |
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