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When the Pentagon's research arm first called for innovators to design and race a self-driving car to make warfare safer, a ragtag bunch of garage tinkerers, computer geeks and even high school students answered.
With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device.
If you grow old in Japan, expect to be served food by a robot, ride a voice-recognition wheelchair or even possibly hire a nurse in a robotic suit — all examples of cutting-edge technology to care for the country's rapidly graying population.
HRP-2 performing a Japanese folk routine called Aizu-Bandaisan (Image: Journal of Robotics Research)
A group of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.
A group of scientists in Japan have developed a humanoid that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.
A new form of propulsion that could allow microrobots to explore human bodies has been discovered. The technique would be used to power robots and other devices such as microfluidic pumps from a distance.
The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics that change in motion.
South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to stop humans misusing robots – or vice versa – officials announced on Wednesday.
Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea.
Robots might one day be smart enough to demand emancipation from their human owners, raising the prospects they'll have to be treated as citizens, according to a speculative paper released by the British government.
It can greet people, show DVDs and hand out balloons. "Ubiko," a robot-on-wheels with a catlike face, is joining the crew of temporary workers supplied by a Japanese job-referral company to stores, events and even weddings.
In future, robots could explore dangerous places by mimicking the distant movements of an operator (Image: Angelika Peer)
This robot's leg movements have a crucial effect on the information received by its eyes (Image: Olaf Sporns/Max Lungarella)
A "swarm" of simple-minded robots that teams up to move an object too heavy for them to manage individually has been demonstrated by robotics researchers.
The winners of last year's Pentagon-sponsored robot race are back to take on another challenge — this time to develop a vehicle that can drive through congested city traffic all by itself.
Areas of interest are picked out by the virtual honeybees (Image: Gustavo Olague)
The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels. The 14-inch-long machine from ZMP Inc. blares music as it rolls and twists from room to room. The robot, which looks like a ball popping out of an egg, has a speaker system from Kenwood Corp.
Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.
In a step toward linking a person's thoughts to machines, Japanese automaker Honda said it has developed a technology that uses brain signals to control a robot's very simple moves.
Seven months after an unmanned Volkswagen successfully drove itself over the rugged desert, the Pentagon is sponsoring another challenge for self-driving vehicles that can weave through congested city traffic without causing an accident.
Hitachi is working on an R2D2-like security robot on wheels that can map out its surroundings using infrared sensors and a camera to detect missing items, suspicious packages and intruders.
Hitachi is working on an R2D2-like security robot on wheels that can map out its surroundings using infrared sensors and a camera to detect missing items, suspicious packages and intruders.
Enryu's 15-foot arms are powerful enough to lift a small passenger car, and its hands are almost as dexterous as a human being's. And the 5-ton, 11.5-foot robot may soon be helping communities across Japan reach avalanche sites and clear snow, as the nation struggles to deal with its snowiest winter in decades, said Japanese company Tmsuk Co.
Children bond with QRIO robot by Sony. A study has just been released where researchers used QRIO in a classroom with children aged 10 months to 2 years. Javier Movellan at the University of California San Diego, US led the study.
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The robotic car developed by a team of students and researchers from the University of Central Florida will compete against 10 others today in California for a $2 million prize.
Domestic robots from Mobile Robots are now available. Three models, the Jeeves, the BrewskiBot and Agent 007 (shown here) can be had for Christmas if ordered by November 8th.
No one won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's inaugural contest in 2004. An encore the following year produced five robots that crossed the finish line, and a team from Stanford University drove away with the $2 million prize.
Plethora of robots out there, but it's R/C Steam Centipede – a steam-engine propelled robot, that grabbed attention of everyone at this year's Kinetic Artbot RoboGames event. Obsessed with expertise, the robot won silver medal for its excellent design and innovativeness.
A giant robot designed to look like Miami Dolphins football player Jason Taylor has been unveiled in London.
Dextre(Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator), a two armed robot from Canada, will be going to the International Space Station.
The National Defence Force is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday.
ScanRobot by Treventus of Austria "reads" books at the rate of 25 pages per minute and is the winner of the European ICT 2007 prize.
A robot named Janet, no not Janet Jackson, has been unveiled in Taiwan. Janet can walk speak and sing.
Citizen, the Japanese watch company, has unveiled several microbot kits.
Move over Japan? A Bangladeshi graduate student is developing a robot capable of picking up objects, mopping floors and performing other simple tasks -- at the fraction of the cost of other humanoids.
Feroz Ahmed Siddiky, a graduate student at the International Islamic University in Bangladesh, has been working on a humanoid robot for 2 years and is nearly done.
Feroz Siddiki has spent two years developing the IRobo and hopes it will eventually rival more expensive robots, like the Asimo made by Honda. Watch a video now:
By John Dickerson Posted Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, at 5:29 PM ET
Newly spawned at the University of Tokyo is the frog robot called Mowgli.
iRobot has answered our latest poll. Instead of making an iRake or an iMow, they have unleashed the ConnectR. The ConnectR is the latest from iRobot after the Looj, a gutter cleaning robot.
Boston Dynamics, a company that specializes in robotics and human simulation, has decided to build LittleDog. LittleDog is a robot that is categorized as non-humanoid robot. The robot has four legs, which are powered by three electric motors.
Boston Dynamics, makers of BigDog have unveiled LittleDog. This creepy robot uses an advanced algorithm to navigate tough rocky terrain.
i-SOBOT is available at United States right now in October. You might think that I am kidding; no, this is not a joke. i-SOBOT is coming to America at the price at US$ 299.
This is a research paper that has gotten a lot of press. It addresses the effects of autistics children's interaction with a humanoid robot. The robot makes simple to understand facial expressions, etc.
RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) -- David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno.
Editor's Note: Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon, the company and the X Prize Foundation announced at Wired NextFest in Los Angeles Thursday. Members of the public will also get the chance to send digital mementos to the moon.
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