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By Dan on December 20, 2009
CyberKite is a kite flying robot made by FESTO. Its job is to fly a kite. Watch the video of this robot flying a large kite.
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By Dan on December 19, 2009
Japanese researchers have taught two robots how to play musical instruments. One plays flute, the other saxophone. The robots reproduce, play sounds they hear.
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| Tagged flute, instrument, interactions, japan, learning, music, robot, saxophone
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By Dan on November 3, 2009
Petman is the first anthropomorphic robot that moves dynamically like a real person. The goal is to recreate how a human walks to stress test chemical suits.
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| Tagged bipedal, boston dynamics, chemical suit, military robot, petman, video, walking
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By Dan on November 2, 2009
The robot is autonomous, and contains a complex sensory control system. An on-board camera identifies gates on the slope while a GPS system tracks position and velocity.
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| Tagged autonomous, robot, skiing, video
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By Dan on November 2, 2009
Robots are already used all over medicine. For example,medical teaching robots. Why not let them do autopsies too? The idea is that robots can be more precise than humans can, so they will be better at completing an accurate autopsy report. Humans miss things, robots don’t.
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| Tagged autonomous, autopsy, medical
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By Dan on October 19, 2009
Panasonic’s fledgling robotics department has created a dishwashing robot capable of grasping utensils and dishes with the appropriate force, and placing them into a dishwasher.
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| Tagged ARMAR, autonomous, dishwashing, humanoid, new robot, PR1, STAIR, stanford, video, willow garage
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By Dan on July 7, 2009
There has been a lot of successful stairclimbing robot designs, but few are as simple and effective as this one.
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| Tagged design, robot, simplistic, stairclimbing, steps
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By Dan on June 11, 2009
A slew of robots performed delicate acts of edible showmanship this week at the International Food Machinery and Technology Expo in Tokyo, Japan. Creations perhaps destined someday to bring to life a Jetsons-style future of ubiquitous robotics demonstrated their ability to handle food.
Among the crowd pleasers stood a rather beefy, industrial looking robotic arm with a [...]
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| Tagged chef, FANUC, food, futuristic, japan, New Robots, robot, sushi
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By Dan on June 9, 2009
Crazy pictures from Japan show a nearly 60ft tall life-size “Gundam” robot. Word so far is that the rocket packs are NOT operable. What a relief.
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| Tagged gundam, huge robot, japan, New Robots
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By Dan on June 2, 2009
Beggar ‘Bot talks in a computerized voice, pitching to passers-by to consider helping the less fortunate. Drawing a crowd and creating a spectacle, bedazzled mall-goers take interest in the robot and after curiously watching and listening, place money in its extending hand – to which it responds, “thank you.”
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| Tagged beggar, charity, homeless, interaction, robot, video
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