This robot arm doesn’t have much to do with armed robots.. but the failed attempts are pretty funny. And it does show that robots can be taught to do pretty much anything people want to teach them to do. So far this year, robots have been learning to play soccer, fetch beers, iron clothes, fold [...]
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Robot learns to flip pancakes
Posted by Eric on July 22nd, 2010
Posted in domestic, research, roboticists, study, testing, video 
Tags: pancakes, robot 
No Comments »World’s first robot safety film?
Posted by Eric on July 8th, 2010
The chaps at Willow Garage have put together a safety film featuring their PR2 robot. They have a lot of firsthand experience and observations involved with what amounts to large, heavy, powerful, moving machinery around people. Very insightful, it will probably become required training for people working with or purchasing domestic robots. via [PlasticPals]
Posted in autonomous, domestic, education, milestone, roboticists, video Tags: pr2, safety, training, video, willow garage No Comments »Kuka’s youBOT – expensive but beautiful
Posted by Eric on June 16th, 2010
The youBOT would set you back $24,000, but I think we can all agree that it would be a sensible purchase. And if not, then look at it in action: DO WANT. [KUKA youBot] via [ IEEE ] via [BotJunkie]
The future of robots – Stefan Schaal Interviewed by Sander Olson
Posted by Eric on June 16th, 2010
Excerpt: “Question: What specific robotic advancements do you anticipate for the next two decades? Answer: Within the next 20 years, we will get to the point that an individual can purchase a general purpose robot. The individual would then tell the robot what it wanted to do, and the robot would learn to perform the [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, biped, domestic, future Tags: future, littledog, Sarcos, willow garage No Comments »Kojiro humanoid
Posted by Eric on June 11th, 2010
Kojiro is a humanoid created by the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory. It was built with artificial bones, muscles, and tendons to mimic human body structure, making it theoretically lighter, more agile, and appear more natural, than more rigid robots. Full article at [spectrum.ieee]
Posted in biomimetic, biped, domestic, testing Tags: biomimetic, humanoid, japan, Kojiro No Comments »Robot gets angry, frightens human children away… kind of
Posted by Eric on June 10th, 2010
Autonomous Robotinho gives museum tour to German schoolchildren. It’s all fun and games until his path gets blocked – watch what happens at 2:44 So kids, robots can be helpful friends, just don’t get in their way. EVER. From [botjunkie]
Posted in AI, autonomous, domestic, education Tags: Deutschland, museum, Robotingo, roomba, tourguide No Comments »The Robots are coming – to the workplace
Posted by Eric on June 8th, 2010
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Robot Party
Posted by Eric on June 7th, 2010
Willow Garage compiled this video of robots having fun and also demonstrating some of the most advanced service robot arms in existence, at their Mobile Manipulation Challenge at ICRA 2010. Read the full article, which identified most of the robots in the video, at [spectrum.ieee.org]
Posted in AI, available for purchase, biped, domestic, research, roboticists, video Tags: arms, compilation, party, robot, willow garage No Comments »Honda presents: LIVING WITH ROBOTS
Posted by Eric on June 3rd, 2010
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Posted in AI, biped, domestic, future, video Tags: asimo, honda, robots, uncanny valley No Comments »
