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 [...]
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Robot takes over control of human’s arm
Posted by Eric on November 15th, 2011
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 [...]
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Tags: pancakes, robot 
No Comments »Myon robot to teach us about language origination
Posted by Eric on June 28th, 2010
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Play “Mars Escape” to help MIT Media Lab develop robots that collaborate with humans
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding the coming trend of using games for work, using games to get people to accomplish tasks. This is one such game, designed to gather data as people interact, which can be used later for modeling actual robot behavior. “The MIT researchers are encouraging as many people [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, education, future, games, research, space, study, testing Tags: behavior model, game, mars, model, play No Comments »Two new kids on the block; Noby and M3-Kindy
Posted by Eric on June 11th, 2010
Two new robot kids were revealed recently at a symposium in Japan by the JST Erato Asada Project. They are cognitive development robots, means to help robots understand complex social interactions and teach us about human development. Noby (Nine-month Old Baby) is a robot meant to model a 9 month old baby, with accurate body [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, biomimetic, biped, research, study Tags: baby, child, cognitive, development, kid No Comments »AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium “Dialog with Robots”
Posted by Eric on June 3rd, 2010
Bilge Mutlu, Phd (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues are organizing a Fall Symposium entitled “Dialog with Robots” to bring together dialog and human-robot interaction communities to discuss the challenges in building real-world, embodied spoken human-robot dialog systems. From their website, Dialog with Robots, “Researchers in the human-robot interaction (HRI) community have [...]
Willow Garage gets 11 open source robots into researcher’s hands
Posted by Eric on May 27th, 2010
Willow Garage offered to lend one of their $400,000 PR2 robots, for two years, to whichever research team presented the best case for the research they wanted to conduct with the PR2. In fact, they offered 10 PR2′s to whichever ten teams (worldwide) made the best case for their research. And though they promised 10 [...]
Advances made by OSU in walking, running robots
Posted by Eric on May 26th, 2010
Oregon State University researchers say they have made an important fundamental advance in robotics which will enable them to have a more dynamic range of abilities, all while using less energy. Jonathan Hurst, an assistant professor of robotics and mechanical design at OSU, said, “If robotic locomotion is ever to achieve some of what we [...]
Posted in biped, study, testing Tags: advance, biomimetics, biped, efficient, robot, walking No Comments »Nanobots – No Longer Science Fiction
Posted by Eric on May 13th, 2010
Science fiction fans are familiar with the concept of nanobots (microscopic robots), but some may not be aware that nanobots are no longer exclusive to the realm of science fiction. These days, as fast as science and technology are advancing, if you blink, you will miss something. From Wikipedia: “Nanorobots – Nanotechnology promises futuristic applications [...]
Robots Show What Might "Accidentally" Happen to Humans They Don't Like
Posted by Eric on May 7th, 2010
Actually this is video of a study conducted by DLR, the German Aerospace Center using crash test dummies to learn how to prevent industrial robot accidents using “collision detection.” Basically, with collision detection, the robot senses that it has hit something so it stops the movement, which dramatically reduces, or prevents completely, injury to the person thus [...]
