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By Dan on November 9, 2009
Roombas and humans play real life Pac-Man! The Pac-Man is controlled remotely while the ghosts are autonomous. Positioning systems tell the robots whether where they are on the map and determine whether they are allowed to turn and where the pills are located.
Posted in Fun
| Tagged autonomous, irobot, pac-man, Roomba, video
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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.
Posted in New Robots, Videos
| 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.
Posted in New Robots, medical
| 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.
Posted in New Robots, Videos
| Tagged ARMAR, autonomous, dishwashing, humanoid, new robot, PR1, STAIR, stanford, video, willow garage
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By Dan on October 16, 2009
MIT’s RANGE, “Robust Aerial Navigation in GPS-denied Environments” Quad-Rotor Helicopter was the first to complete the fifth mission of the IARC aerial robotics competition.
It features a small laser scanner as well as a color camera and other sensors.
Posted in Videos
| Tagged autonomous, helicopter, MIT, navigation, video
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By Dan on May 30, 2009
‘Ember’, is their book-sized autonomous robot made for the LANdroid program.Ember’s ad-hoc network maintains communication between soldiers on the battlefield.
Posted in Military
| Tagged ad-hoc, autonomous, DARPA, ember, irobot, Military, military robot, New Robots, robot, small robot, video
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By Dan on May 27, 2009
The main advantage of the chemical robots is that they do not need an electrical source of power. The robots gain energy through chemical reactions with their environment.
Posted in Research
| Tagged autonomous, chemical robots, New Robots
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By Dan on May 22, 2009
If you haven’t heard of a Roomba before, it is a small, $100-$600, robotic vacuum cleaner that roams around and picks up after its messy human counterparts. Some creative Roomba owners have gotten the bright idea to take long exposure photographs of their Roomba doing its thing. The result is a beautiful image offering insight [...]
Posted in Images
| Tagged art, autonomous, long exposure, Roomba
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By Dan on May 19, 2009
Military robots show no fear in the face of enemy fire, and squeeze the trigger with no remorse. But their effectiveness does not end there. These lethal robots will be built with a deeper understanding of how best to kill their opponents.
Posted in Military
| Tagged autonomous, ethics, futuristic, Military
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By Dan on May 19, 2009
One of Ember’s duties is to keep soldiers in communication. In urban environments, buildings and angle of incidents between wireless devices can greatly affect signal propegation. LANdroids are tasked with autonomously seeking a position that keeps the network alive, while still maintaining other missions objectives
Posted in Military
| Tagged ad-hoc, autonomous, DARPA, ember, irobot, Military, military robot, New Robots, robot, small robot
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