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Source: science.slashdot.org --- 35 days ago
ruphus13 writes with a story about the open-source centric Willow Garage project (last mentioned on Slashdot early last year), which is making progress in creating helpful Humanoid robots for household use. From the article: "PR2 is the mobile hardware design for Willow Garage robots, featuring stereo and laser sensors ... Senior citizens are a big part of the target audience that Willow Garage is aiming for. "All industrialized countries are facing aging populations that require assistance and care to remain independent into old age. By 2020 close to 20 percent of the US population will be over 65," the project leaders say. "These numbers are even higher in Western European and Asian countries." Willow Garage is aiming to produce several types of assistive robots." The PR2 robots are capable of performing critical tasks like cleaning rooms and bringing beer from a refrigerator." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...
Source: cordis.europa.eu --- 20 days ago
Robots can take any shape or form and with the explosion in European research and development for every imaginable Robot application, there are dozens of completely different designs. Why, then, do we remain fascinated by Humanoid robots? ... Source: www.sciencedaily.com --- 11 days ago
Robots can take any shape or form and with the explosion in European research and development for every imaginable Robot application, there are dozens of completely different designs. Why, then, do we remain fascinated by Humanoid robots? ...
Source: www.dzone.com --- 37 days ago
Willow Garage is an open source robotics project that originated at Stanford University. Robots being developed with the project run ROS (Robot Operating System) software. PR2 robots can perform tasks such as tidying up a room and retrieving beer from a refrigerator. ...
Source: www.industrial-embedded.com --- 13 days ago
New Development Promotes Innovation in Humanoid Robotics and Medical Fields ... Source: honda-p3.com --- 11 days ago
The latest generation of Honda’s Robot ASIMO Humanoid gave Barcelona its European debut. Honda hopes that he could one day be so advanced that it is a real human assistance. The new ASIMO embodies several significant technological improvements over its predecessors, including a new, schnittigeres design, yet more fluid and quick movements and the ability [...] ... Source: forums.trossenrobotics.com --- 38 days ago
maybe TRC will sell them soon ---Quote (Originally by Alex)--- Hey Zeno rocks!! I saw him out at RoboDevelopment and I was really impressed. I... ... Source: www.topix.com --- 17 days ago
CiteSeerX Alpha rockelegancy bioinspired-control Abstract Abstract. Properties of the human embodiment-- sensorimotor apparatus and neurological structure-- participate directly in the growth and development of ... ... Source: www.engineeringvillage.com --- 17 days ago
... Source: www.debtloanweb.info --- 12 days ago
This is absolutely terrifying. You probably can sleep easy for a bit longer if you’re kept up at night in fear of a robotic uprising destroying humanity. Robots are still relatively stupid after all, not able to do much more than take instruction and move around slowly from human masters. Bu, I sure hope they don’t [...] ... Source: nanotechnology.net --- 8 days ago
Directing visitors and answering questions will be the job for AToM, the latest Robot with human-like qualities custom designed by advanced engineers for nanotxUSA’08 during International Nanotechnology Week. ... Source: www.ecademy.com --- 20 hours ago
I would like to briefly introduce ASIMO to those who dont know it yet. As a quick background information, ASIMO is a Humanoid Robot created by Honda Motor Company. It is 130 centimeters tall and 54 kilograms. The Robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h. ASIMO was created at Honda's Research and Development Technical Research Center in Japan. The name ASIMO is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". ASIMO is taught different activities from walking, running and humour. And amazingly it performs all those activities well. The most recent one is conducting an orchestra. The reason I enjoy this and highlight it here is that it is amazing to see technology and art merged like this. If a Robot can conduct a symphony orchestra, imagine the possibilities for our business! ... Source: observers.france24.com --- 1 day ago
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Filed under: Robots Look National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, we understand this is your first walking, bi-pedal Robot -- but why the peel-away face? Just slap in some big manga eyes and button-mouth and we might be able to sleep at night. But no, you show up at the Taipei International Invention Show with this creepoid, capable of singing via synthesizer and walking 2-meters in a straight line -- presumably in preparation to celebrate our demise. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...
[CEATEC 2008] The idea of having robots help us with easy tasks like directions in a museum, retail stores and transporting light charges (10kh) is interesting (and not new in Asia), although you would think that they don’t really need this in Japan: everywhere I go, there are always four people ready to help me at any given time, so the idea of increasing this “manpower” with the help of robots feels a little strange, but I guess that “service” is never good enough in Japan. The Enon Robot has two cameras that can provide it with 3D information (in the same fashion that our own eyes do). With them, it can compute distances and avoid obstacles (even moving ones, like humans). It has a touch display so that its masters can interact with it, and a speaker to communicate verbally (in addition to virtually). I’m under the impression that it is mainly aimed at helping customers, but it can also be setup to patrol places such as data centers (an easier task, when compared to helping humans). Add a comment | From: Fujitsu Enon Service Robot, a Humanoid design for a store associate or tour guide | Visit Ubergizmo | Good deals ...
Super dinky at 16.5x10x6.5cm The iSobot, the dinkiest of all robots, has made the long journey from Tokyo, and is now available in the UK for £199. ... Read iSobot - the world's smallest Humanoid Robot - now available in UK on Pocket-lint now ...
If you're kept up at night in fear of a robotic uprising destroying humanity, you probably can sleep easy for a bit longer. After all, robots are still relatively stupid , not able to do much more than move around slowly and take instruction from human masters. But boy, if robots are going to rise up and kill us, I sure hope they don't look like the NTUST Humanoid Robot. Featuring a human face that looks like it was peeled off a corpse by a twisted serial killer, it's a freaky looking specimen that I certainly wouldn't want to be chased down by. Luckily, it can just walk in a straight line, so for now, I'll stick to my Robot escape plan: turn right. Via Engadget ...
Filed under: Computers This is a family friendly Web site, so we can't say what we really want to about the Repliee R-1 Robot , but it commonly abbreviates as WTF?! The Repliee R-1 is a full size Humanoid Robot, designed to look like an actual five-year-old Japanese girl. It has flexible silicone skin, hair, and and armada of motors that aide in life-like motion. The hope is that the more human-like appearance will make the Repliee R-1 more appealing to seniors and the disabled, who the R-1 is designed to assist. We don't find the "human-like" appearance of the R-1 comforting. In fact, the more we look at its picture, the more we're creeped out -- we wouldn't let that think stay in our house overnight. Though, we can't say we're too surprised regarding the creep factor, it seems that being unsettling is a standard feature of robots these days. Check out the 'read' link for video of the terrifying android from the Sun. [From: The Sun ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...
Developed a few years ago by the roboticists at Osaka University , the Repliee R-1 Robot made a rare public appearance at last week's CEATEC conference in Tokyo. Sporting a silicon skin and utilizing 50 sensors, the tiny Robot was designed to mimic the appearance and movements of a 5 year-old child. While the effect of the child-bot is decidedly more hauntingly creepy than cute (see video here ), the sister of the previous Repliee Q-1 reminds us that we are probably just a decade or so away from having these kinds of Humanoid robots walking our streets and giving us real nightmares . Via PC Answers ...