Ants are simple beings, but when foraging they present complex structures which inspire interesting solutions in this field (Soft Computing)
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This is the main reason why Marco Dorigo has devoted his life towards the research work into 'Ant...
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German product designer, Martin Postler has come up with a project "Life/Machine - Scenes from a roboted Life" that explores human-robot interaction while sharing a common environment and the "what ifs" of human-robot coexistence.
The ideas...
Have you been complaining about how lonely you are? Have you been plagued by boredom with nobody around to have a decent conversation with? Well, if you have tried ringing up your friends and given up trying to persuade them to put up with a bore like...
NASA has funded a reported $450,000 for three robots that are to be used in a mission to explore life near the hot springs under the ice of the Arctic ocean. These robots will be used to take pictures and collect specimens of living organisms along...
Whenever I think of receptionists, I wonder why I always see hot women dressed up in tight fitting clothes. But that is a different topic for a different day and of course, for a different blog (wink).
We all know that Japanese love robots....
Humans would one day become a thing of the past. Movies like Terminator, i-Robot and Cyborg have been fuelling people’s fears of becoming obsolete. Observing the rate at which robots are developing, to do almost everything that only we humans can,...
If you are looking ahead to get some extra leg power, Matsushita Electric’s Power Pedal robot suit, a wearable exoskeleton can offer you up to seven times more leg power that you possess.
In this so-called suit robot legs are controlled by a...
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has now come up with a unique way to develop LANdroid WiFi robots, which are intelligent crawling radio-relay robots with size equal to that of a deck of cards. LANdroids are there on the DARPA's...
World’s first robot that acted as master of ceremonies at a South Korean wedding of Seok Gyeong-Jae, one of the engineers who designed it.
This Trio robot features a cone-shaped body, two arms and a dark-glassed face with eyes and a mouth of...
Based on Guy Hoffman's Ph.D thesis on human-robot fluency and nonverbal behavior a new robotic desk lamp has been developed called AUR or robotic desk lamp or a collaborative lighting assistant.
The design of this lamp features an existing 5-DoF...
This is not a dream. The RoboCup 2007 held recently in Atlanta, USA, had some great robots participating in the competition. There were about 33 teams taking part in this Robo comp. Here's more details.
The competition was organized by the...
After getting acquainted with the world's first creepiest robot CB2, today let's peak into the German industrial robot manufacturer KUKA Robotics' world's largest and strongest robot - KUKA KR 1000 titan 6-axis robot.
This latest robot is...
It seems, robots made by man can now challenge their intelligence in turn! It may happen that you may fail to guess rightly, what lies ahead of your journey into an unknown environment. But, a robot that do that job in an assured way!
Yes, it is...
Earlier we reported you a prototype machine that scientists demonstrated as Super War-rescue Robot and an amazing fire fighter robot that was especially developed to save people stucked in suffocating smoke at the time of intense fire incidents. Now,...
We all know that robots come in various sizes and shapes, such as large, masculine wtc. Recently, Tomotaka Takahashi has created something more interesting. He has created a female robot with all the feminine movements.
In Tech Epoch, last night he...
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