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60-second review: Auto-vacuuming robots

This column kicks off our series on gadgets to help you achieve your New Year's Resolution. Today's review: the latest in auto-vacuuming robots to aid our lazy readers who resolve to have a cleaner home. ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

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

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 ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

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

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

Electronics / Robotics

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




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Transforming robotics with biologically inspired learning models

I walked into the building and there was a human-sized robot waiting to greet me. 

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Of minds and machines

In the 1950s and '60s -- when MIT’s Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts were building networks of artificial neurons, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky were helping to create the discipline of artificial intelligence and ...

Technology / Other

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Roomba-maker iRobot clears path for robotics

Top scientists around the world are trying to improve upon robots, which can already detect bombs, perform surgery and even go into battle.

Technology / Business

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A closer look at how humans interact with technology

Most people have just one question regarding Roombas: How well do the robotic floor vacuums suck up pet hair and dust bunnies? A few might even wonder if their Roomba could go rogue and chase the family cat ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Emotional robot pets

Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet animals ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Useful, useless and unusual at US gadget show

Cutting-edge technology grabbed the headlines at the premier US gadget show here but the showrooms also featured products better described as useful, useless and downright unusual.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hot gadgets at show: Wireless charging, iPhone TV

(AP) -- At the International Consumer Electronics Show last week, 3-D television, electronic readers and little laptops captured much of the attention.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 10, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots

(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.

Electronics / Robotics

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

As robots become more common, Stanford experts consider the legal challenges

(PhysOrg.com) -- They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores. And scientists predict that pretty soon, robots will be using artificial intelligence to play a larger role ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Samsung launches a new vacuuming robot

(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.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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


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