Robotics news
Simplicity may be key to robotic self-reproduction
Jun 05, 2007 |
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“Self-reproduction is one of the remarkable feats of biological systems which has remained largely outside the scope of capabilities of traditional engineered systems,” explains Victor Zykov and his colleagues ...
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.
When robots learn social skills
Jun 22, 2006 |
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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 ...
Robot Salamander May Give Evolution Clues
Mar 08, 2007 |
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A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to simple ...
Robots manipulating animal behaviour
May 08, 2006 |
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A pet dog sits on command, but nobody expects an insect to follow human instructions. So it may come as a surprise to learn that researchers recently succeeded in controlling cockroaches with tiny mobile robots. ...
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 ...
Robotic Hand That Senses Touch (w/ Video)
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in ...
Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, ...
Existing Technologies Combine to Make Automated Home
Apr 30, 2006 |
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The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), Ymatic Ltd., and Biometrica Systems Asia Co. Ltd. have jointly developed a novel automated home – not with new technology, but with ...
Jumping robots take clues from nature
Jul 06, 2007 |
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A group of mechanical engineers from the University of Bath has a peculiar interest in flying squirrels, fleas, and grasshoppers. Inspired by animals considered to be excellent jumpers, the researchers have ...
Assistive robot adapts to people, new places
Apr 10, 2007 |
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In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores--cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes.
iRobot Unveils Morphing Blob Robot (w/ Video)
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- iRobot's latest robot is unique on many levels. The doughy blob moves by inflating and deflating - a new technique its developers call "jamming." As the researchers explain in the video below, ...
South Korea creates female android
May 04, 2006 |
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South Korean scientists say they have created the world's second android -- a female named EveR-1.
Robots to do household work in S. Korea
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Approximately 1,000 families in Seoul will use remote-controlled robots to perform household chores this fall, the Korea Times reports.
Cyborg-walkers stride toward Japan's robotics future
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Three Japanese cyborg look-alikes turned heads on busy Tokyo streets and subway trains Monday as they made their way to a robotics conference on a hot summer's day -- without breaking a sweat.
