 Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress February 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 103 vote(s)
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Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other ... | |
 Robots go Where Scientists Fear to Tread May 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Scientists are diligently working to understand how and why the world’s ice shelves are melting. While most of the data they need (temperatures, wind speed, humidity, radiation) can be obtained by satellite, ... | |
 Designing bug perception into robots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools.
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 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 ... | |
 South Korea creates female android May 04, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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South Korean scientists say they have created the world's second android -- a female named EveR-1. | |
 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 ... | |
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? | |
 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 ... | |
Tartalo the robot is knocking on your door June 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A research team from the University of the Basque Country, led by Basilio Sierra, is devising a robot that can get around by itself. Tartalo is able to identify different places and ask permission before going through a doorway. | |
 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. ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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. | |
 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 ... | |
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