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Japanese Store Selling Custom-Made Robots That Look Like Their Owners
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Department store competition is fierce in Japan during the winter holidays, with every store trying to come up with the most attention-catching promotional campaign. This year, the department ...
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 ...
Robot Trash Collectors Are Roaming the Streets of Italy (w/ Video)
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the city of Peccioli in the Tuscany region of Italy a robot called DustCart has been zipping through the streets. This is part of a $3.9 million research program called DustBot that aims ...
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.
Japanese professor creates baseball-playing robots
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Look out Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka. A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan.
Older adults want robots that do more than vacuum, human factors/ergonomics researchers find
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Oct 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgia Tech have discovered that, contrary to previous assumptions, older adults are more amenable than younger ones to having a robot "perform critical monitoring tasks that would require little interaction ...
Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.
Household robots do not protect users' security and privacy, researchers say
Oct 08, 2009 |
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People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But safety and privacy risks of information-gathering objects that move around our homes are not yet adequately addressed, ...
Italy plans telescope on moon
Jan 05, 2006 |
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Italy plans to build a telescope on the moon to expand its knowledge of the universe, the Italian News Agency ANSA says.
Meet Nexi, MIT Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star
Apr 10, 2008 |
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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, ...
Hertfordshire team wins Humanoid Simulation League in Robot Football Cup
May 06, 2009 |
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The Bold Hearts, a student team from the University of Hertfordshire, has just won the Humanoid Simulation League in the Robocup German Open 2009. The team is now preparing for the Robocup World Championships in Austria, ...
Roberta goes to Europe
Apr 16, 2008 |
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The idea that girls are not interested in science and technology is a popular misconception. For the past five years, school girls have been working with robots in "Roberta courses". And now Roberta is ready ...
UCSD Robots Take Center Stage at National Robotics Conference
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Novel agile robots created by mechanical engineers at UC San Diego recently made their way to Austin, Texas, and took center stage during a keynote address at NI Week , the annual robotics extravaganza hosted ...
Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans’ emotions. A recent study has shown that, by picking up on human emotional traits, as ...
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.
