News tagged with service robots
Care-O-bot 3: Always at your service
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household ...
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British scientist warns we must protect the vulnerable from robots
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Top robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey, of the University of Sheffield, has called for international guidelines to be set for the ethical and safe application of robots before it is too late. Professor Sharkey, writing ...
Futuristic robots, friend or foe?
Apr 22, 2008 |
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A leading robotics expert will outline some of the ethical pitfalls of near-future robots to a Parliamentary group today at the House of Commons. Professor Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield will explain that robots ...
Can you trust a robot to work safely with you in the kitchen?
May 14, 2008 |
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Can robots and humans work safely together? This issue will be addressed thanks to a research grant of over £1 million from the European Commission (EC).
Greying Japan plans robo-nurses in five years: govt
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Japan plans to prepare safety rules soon for robot nurses, which are expected to serve humans within five years in the fast-greying society, a government official said Wednesday.
Older adults want robots that do more than vacuum, human factors/ergonomics researchers find
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Oct 14, 2009 |
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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 ...
Rescue Robot Exercise Brings Together Robots, Developers, First Responders
Nov 25, 2008 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology held a rescue robot exercise in Texas last week in which about three dozen robots were tested by developers and first responders in order to develop a standard ...
Soccer robots compete for the title
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Robot soccer is an ambitious high-tech competition for universities, research institutes and industry. Several major tournaments are planned for 2008, the biggest of which is the 'RoboCup German Open.' From ...
Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.
Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study ...
Google Wave to Launch Public Beta Service by End of September (w/ Video)
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has just announced it will be opening its public beta release of Google Wave Service on September 30. Google Wave is a real-time communication platform that combines aspects of email, ...
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