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Robots face off on football pitch, in kitchen at RoboCup 2009
Jul 01, 2009 |
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RoboCup 2009, the world's largest robotics event, kicked off Wednesday in the southern Austrian city of Graz, with some 400 teams and 2,000 robots ready to compete in sports and rescue operations.
Biology knows best -- human-like vision lets robots navigate naturally
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots manoeuvre quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and to help guide the visually impaired.
Researchers unveil whiskered robot rat
Jun 30, 2009 |
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A team of scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated this week at an international workshop looking ...
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Jellyfish Robot Swims Like its Biological Counterpart
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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Autonomous robot detects shrapnel
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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Space Robot Can Autonomously Reconfigure Itself
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Jun 15, 2009 |
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Robotic ferret will detect hidden drugs and weapons
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Jun 12, 2009 |
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Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits,
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'Holey' Nanosheets for Wastewater Dye Removal,
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Jellyfish Robot Swims Like its Biological Counterpart,
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Could Maxwell's Demon Exist in Nanoscale Systems?,
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Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws,
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The future of robots is rat-shaped
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab.
Predictive powers: a robot that reads your intention? (w/Video)
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions ...
Robots with fins, tails demonstrate evolution
May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, the sort you'd store ...
Robot Navigates City by Asking for Directions
(PhysOrg.com) -- ACE the robot was sent on a mission by its German inventors: to find its way to the Marienplatz in the center of Munich, about 1.5 km away from its starting point at the Technical University ...
Robotic Mouse Makes Maze Debut at UCSD (w/Video)
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An intrepid group of UC San Diego undergraduate engineers designed and built a robotic mouse from scratch as part of the IEEE MicroMouse competition.
Robots on a recycling rampage
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 150 robots, in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and capabilities, will battle it out on May 6 and 7 in a contest to see which can collect the most soda cans and simulated bales of trash and return ...
Robots are narrowing the gap with humans
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Robots are gaining on us humans. Thanks to exponential increases in computer power -- which is roughly doubling every two years -- robots are getting smarter, more capable, more like flesh-and-blood people.
I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
Japan child robot mimicks infant learning
Apr 05, 2009 |
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The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it's slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship.
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Scientists have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the ...
New robot 'steered by human thought': Honda
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Japan's Honda said Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine.
Humanoid robot helps scientists to understand intelligence
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A humanoid robot newly acquired by Imperial College London will lead to a deeper understanding of human intelligence, says scientists today.
Greying Japan plans robo-nurses in five years: govt
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Japan plans to prepare safety rules soon for robot nurses, which are expected to serve humans within five years in the fast-greying society, a government official said Wednesday.
Robot brings hope to kids with learning difficulties
Mar 20, 2009 |
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A robot named Cosmo has become six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald's unlikely ally in his uphill everyday battle with developmental difficulties.
British-built robotic fish to detect pollution
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A shoal of robotic fish which can detect pollution in the water are set to released into the sea off Spain, British scientists said Thursday.
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Swimming pool game inspires robot detection
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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Fashion robot to hit Japan catwalk
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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Wag the Robot? Brown scientists build robot that responds to human gestures
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Mar 11, 2009 |
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Human-like robot smiles, scolds in Japan classroom
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Mar 11, 2009 |
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Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes
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Mar 10, 2009 |
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Robots that monitor emotions of ASD children
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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It's All Relative: UCSD's Einstein Robot Has 'Emotional Intelligence' (Video)
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Researchers learn why robots get stuck in the sand -- and how to keep them going (Video)
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Japanese Firms Start Testing Robots In Office Buildings
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Feb 07, 2009 |
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Japanese Robot/Humanoid Innovations Update: Mankind's Best New Friend is Getting Better (Videos)
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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'The robots are coming'
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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Cyclogyro Flying Robot Improves its Angles of Attack
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm's way
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Jan 21, 2009 |
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Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm’s way
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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Medical robotics expert explores the human-machine interface
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WowWee Rovio WiFi Webcam A Consumer Wunderkind
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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Robot endures Antarctic cold to prepare for space mission
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Dec 26, 2008 |
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MIT's Huggable Robot Teddy Enhances Human Relationships
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Dec 17, 2008 |
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A Perfect Female Companion: Project Aiko
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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Researcher designs robot that jumps like a grasshopper
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