 Robot with a Biological Brain: new research provides insights into how the brain works August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 128 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first ... | |
 Emotional robots in the spotlight July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot with empathy sounds like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but with the aid of neural networks European researchers are developing robots in tune with our emotions. The tantalising work ... | |
 With Mini in vivo Robots, Anyone Can do Surgery February 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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By attaching a millimeter-sized camera robot to a tether, scientists have designed a way to allow individuals with non-medical backgrounds to perform minimally invasive surgery in almost any location. Unlike ... | |
 Dutch robot Flame walks like a human May 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 114 vote(s)
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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides ... | |
 A robot in every home? (Robot Special part 3) September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the future. | |
 Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans’ emotions. A recent study has shown that, by picking up on human emotional traits, as ... | |
Scientists developing small robotic drones to become part of Air Force's arsenal September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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It may look like a futuristic arcade game, but it's a scene from an official Air Force animated video: Bad guys of indiscernible origin being shadowed, from a careful distance, by small robotic drones designed to resemble ... | |
 ASIMO Robot to Conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra April 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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ASIMO will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs "Impossible Dream" to open a ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Cornell robot fails to break a record, but students learn April 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Engineering education needs to include a few rough spots to be worthwhile. An attempt to set an unofficial world record for how far a robot could walk failed the night of March 30, but the team will keep trying. | |
 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. | |
 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," ... | |
Nissan uses bumblebee power in new car technology September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Japan's Nissan Motor Co. has tapped into an unlikely source of inspiration for technology to prevent car crashes -- bumblebees. | |
 Professors teach robot to 'play ball' September 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Baseball is elegant in its simplicity. Pitch a ball, hit the ball. Score more runs than your opponent and you win the game. | |
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