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Music Technology Researchers Create New Robotic Percussionist

Music Technology Researchers Create New Robotic Percussionist

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Georgia Tech has created an improved version of the robotic percussionist. The second edition, named Shimon, is designed to play a melodic instrument – the marimba. It, therefore, utilizes ...





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Robots on a recycling rampage

Electronics / Robotics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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 ...


Italy plans telescope on moon

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created Jan 05, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Italy plans to build a telescope on the moon to expand its knowledge of the universe, the Italian News Agency ANSA says.


Roberta goes to Europe

Roberta goes to Europe

Technology / Other

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans

Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 4

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 ...


Humanoid robot helps scientists to understand intelligence

Humanoid robot helps scientists to understand intelligence

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A humanoid robot newly acquired by Imperial College London will lead to a deeper understanding of human intelligence, says scientists today.


Robot Asks Directions

Robot Navigates City by Asking for Directions

Electronics / Robotics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- ACE the robot was sent on a mission by its German inventors: to find its way to the Marienplatz in the center of Munich, about 1.5 km away from its starting point at the Technical University ...


Giant alien robots start life as sketches (AP)

Giant alien robots start life as sketches

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(AP) -- Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up.


Meet Nexi, MIT Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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, ...


Babies & Robots: Infant power mobility on display

Babies & Robots: Infant power mobility on display

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children with mobility issues, like cerebral palsy and spina bifida, can't explore the world like other babies, because they can't crawl or walk. Infant development emerges from the thousands of daily discoveries ...


The robot that climbs in the pipe

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Industrial pipe systems are inaccessible and narrow. The pipes can be vertical and have junctions. Just as challenging, leakage points in the water system must be located, the condition of oil and gas pipelines must be checked ...



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