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Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes

Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an ...





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Roomba 532 and 562 Pet Series

iRobot Introduces its Pet and Pro Series

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Today, iRobot has just announced a new line of robotic friends. Their Pet Series includes: the iRobot Roomba Pet Series and Professional Series Vacuum Cleaning Robots. As the name implies, the Pet Series is ...


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iRobot: New Way of Cleaning with Roomba Red Robotic Floorvacs

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created Oct 05, 2004 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

"Look Ma, no hands!" vacuum detects dirt, self-navigates and recharges quickly iRobot, creator of Roomba(R), the first affordable robotic vacuum, announced today that its new Roomba Red robotic floorvac is n ...


iRobot Dips Toe into Pool-Cleaning Market

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 11, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Pool boys, you're on notice. iRobot has, in conjunction with AquaJet LLC and Aquatron, Inc., introduced not one, but two pool-cleaning robotics.


Samsung launches a new vacuuming robot

Samsung launches a new vacuuming robot

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Samsung Electronics has launched its latest autonomous robot vacuum cleaner, the Tango, which is capable of vacuuming hardwood floors, carpets, and even beds without human assistance.


Company's robots want to do your chores

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created Apr 03, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Slobs and housework-haters rejoice: If one company has its way, in the near future there will be robots to set the dinner table, clear it after dinner, shovel snow and mop the floor.


Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9

(AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.


Older adults want robots that do more than vacuum, human factors/ergonomics researchers find

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


A robot in every home? (Robot Special part 3)

A robot in every home? (Robot Special part 3)

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the future.


I, robot _ and gardener: MIT droids tend plants (AP)

I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.


Robot endures Antarctic cold to prepare for space mission

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

A NASA robot tested last winter in an icy Wisconsin lake will complete a monthlong underwater mission in Antarctica on Thursday, having successfully explored dark, deep waters frozen off from the outside world tens of thousands ...



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