This quadruped was clearly designed with the intent to show that robots are way too cute to pose a threat to humanity. In all likelihood, most robots will probably have sources of backup power, such as photovoltaic cells. Solar power technology, fueled by the fears of global climate change, has made huge advances in recent years, [...]
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Homemade armored gunbot finds targets ultrasonically, aims gun accordingly
Posted by Eric on November 25th, 2011
This is the Mechatronic Security Robot by Beatty Robotics. Weighing 45 pounds, it is armored, can move in any direction, can hone in on targets using 8 ultrasonic sensors, and can fire 1,000 projectiles per minute. AND put on a light show while doing it. See for yourself: Mechatron Robot from Robert Beatty on Vimeo. Read [...]
Robot takes over control of human’s arm
Posted by Eric on November 15th, 2011
In this experiment, a robot uses electrodes to control a blindfolded person’s arm and hand, guiding the arm so that they move the ball into position and drop the ball when it is over the net. This process of controlling the muscles via electrodes is called functional electrical stimulation (FES) and has many potential applications [...]
Robots Will Rule Men
Posted by Eric on August 30th, 2011
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Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, domestic, education, ethics, featured, future, research, roboticists 
Tags: Articlect, Cosmist, singularity, Terrans 
No Comments »Robot learns to flip pancakes
Posted by Eric on July 22nd, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in domestic, research, roboticists, study, testing, video Tags: pancakes, robot No Comments »ROILA – Universal spoken language for robots
Posted by Eric on July 16th, 2010
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands are working on a spoken language for robots, built with both human brains and robot simplicity in mind. ROILA, or Robot Interaction Language, is intended to be easy for people to learn and easy for robots to understand. Some phrases and words in ROILA: Pito loki [...]
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 »Robot jokes about world domination
Posted by Eric on July 5th, 2010
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Posted in AI, roboticists, video Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, Bina48, conversation No Comments »Modular “Myon” robot
Posted by Eric on June 16th, 2010
The Myon series of robots are modular in design, so that if they lose a limb or two, they can keep functioning. A very useful feature for robots doing some of the dangerous jobs robots do these days. In fact, the head can be removed and can still function autonomously on its own. Here [...]
