News tagged with humanoid robots
Spandex manufacturer makes elastic electrical cable (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese company Asahi Kasei Fibers, which manufactures spandex and other textiles, has applied its knowledge of stretchable materials to make stretchable elastic power and USB cables.
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Structured English brings robots closer to everyday users
(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over, Jetsons. A humanoid robot named Mae is traipsing around Cornell's Autonomous Systems Lab, guided by plain-English instructions and sometimes even appearing to get frustrated.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Montpellier team turns tables on robot-human interactions (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots have entered a newer phase of serving, not obeying. for use in medical settings. Chapter one in robotics history encouraged a perception of clever little machines skating around with ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Panasonic enters mini robots in Hawaii triathlon (w/ video)
A trio of small Japanese robots will be working together in the Ironman triathlon race in Hawaii next month in a show of their inner strength -- rechargeable batteries.
Sep 16, 2011 |
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It's alive! Space station's humanoid robot awake
NASA's humanoid robot has finally awakened in space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Virginia Tech robotics team dominates international RoboCup competition
(PhysOrg.com) -- Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory team dominated the international robot soccer competition known as RoboCup this past weekend, winning the Louis Vuitton Humanoid Cup, ...
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Music-playing robot developed by Drexel students
Only a decade ago, musically-aware humanoids, or robots, equipped to play popular songs on the piano and dance to audio beats could have come to life only in a science fiction film, but for Drexel University ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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NASA's humanoid robot unveiled on space station
The first humanoid robot ever launched into space is finally free. Astronauts at the International Space Station unpacked Robonaut on Tuesday, 2 1/2 weeks after its arrival via shuttle Discovery. NASA broadcast ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Shuttle Discovery approaches Earth for last landing
The oldest and most traveled space shuttle, Discovery, is headed for its last landing on Earth Wednesday before becoming the first of three to retire in a US museum.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2011 |
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US shuttle Discovery on track for final landing
The US space program's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, was on track to make its final Earth landing Wednesday after a near-perfect last mission to the space station.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Geminoid DK: An ultra-realistic android announced (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The uncanny valley is getting smaller every day. For those of you not familiar with that concept, the uncanny valley is a term, first coined by researchers in Japan, that explains the innate ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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US astronauts get ready to leave space lab
Six US astronauts are wrapping their mission at the International Space Station on Sunday before strapping themselves back into the shuttle Discovery, one day before setting back toward Earth, NASA said.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Farewells for space crews: Discovery set to undock
(AP) -- The space shuttle and space station crews will soon say goodbye.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Space robot's debut being moved up after clamor
The 220-mile-high unveiling of R2, the first humanoid robot in space, is being moved up at the urging of the president of the United States.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2011 |
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President Obama urges astronauts to unpack robot
(AP) -- The 12 astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex had to explain to a higher authority Thursday why they hadn't yet unpacked R2, the first humanoid robot in space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 03, 2011 |
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