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Panasonic breaks into robotics with medical robot

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(AP) -- Panasonic Corp. said Tuesday has developed a medical robot that dispenses drugs to patients, the Japanese electronics giant's first step into robotics.


The brain-machine interface (right) equipped with headgear to measure electrical current and blood flow in the brain

New robot 'steered by human thought': Honda

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 5

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.





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ASIMO Robot to Conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 24, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

ASIMO will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs "Impossible Dream" to open a ...


Mickey Welcomes ASIMO To Disneyland's 50th Anniversary

Mickey Welcomes ASIMO To Disneyland's 50th Anniversary

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created Jun 06, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mickey Mouse welcomed ASIMO to a new home in the Honda ASIMO Theater, inside Disneyland park. Guests visiting the popular Innoventions attraction at the park can now see ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative ...


Probing Question: Where are all the cool robots?

Probing Question: Where are all the cool robots?

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the better part of a century, they’ve promised us robots. From Elektro, the 7-foot metal man of the 1939 World’s Fair, to Rosie the robot maid on "The Jetsons" to the android lieutenant ...


Scientists study how to make humanoid robots more graceful

Scientists study how to make humanoid robots more graceful

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 09, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Infants learn how to move by recognizing which movements and positions cause them physical discomfort and learning to avoid them. Computer science Professor Oussama Khatib and his research group at the Stanford ...


Japanese professor creates baseball-playing robots

Japanese professor creates baseball-playing robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(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.


Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair

Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.


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Honda Reveals Technologies Next-Generation ASIMO

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created Dec 16, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the development of new technologies for the next-generation ASIMO humanoid robot, targeting a new level of mobility that will better enable ASIMO to function and interact ...


Cornell robot sets a record for distance walking

Cornell robot sets a record for distance walking

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (15) | comments 0

We're not sure what brand of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps -- a little over 9 ...


Honda President Takanobu Ito  displays the prototype model of a personal mobility device called the 'U3-X'

Japan's Honda unveils futuristic unicyle (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 12

It looks a bit like a plastic figure of eight, and its Japanese designers say it could revolutionise the way we get around, in total comfort and without breaking a sweat.


Human-like robot smiles, scolds in Japan classroom

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors.



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