 Robot with a Biological Brain: new research provides insights into how the brain works August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 113 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 ... | |
 Military use of robots increases August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though—it is Packbot from iRobot Corporation. ... | |
Europe, Japan join forces to map out future of intelligent robots July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The field of robotics could be poised for a breakthrough, leading to a new generation of intelligent machines capable of taking on multiple tasks and moving out of the factory into the home and general workplace. The great ... | |
 Emotional robots in the spotlight July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 12 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 ... | |
 Care-O-bot 3: Always at your service July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household ... | |
Musical Robot Tags Along as your Serenading Sidekick June 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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If you ever thought it would be cool to be serenaded by a robot, you might get a kick out of the new A.M.P. Bot. Developed by Hasbro Tiger Electronics, the 2.5-foot-tall humanoid rolls around on a Segway-type platform, blasting ... | |
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. | |
 School of Robofish provides basis for underwater robot teams June 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to share information, these can work cooperatively ... | |
 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, ... | |
 Dutch robot Flame walks like a human May 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 113 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 ... | |
 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," ... | |
 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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 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 ... | |
 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. | |
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, ... | |
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