Top 12 robot pets for young geeks

Today robots are growing in complexity and are playing a vital role in the ever-growing lethargic community and it will not be surprising to see at least one robot in every home in the near future. Robots not only make our life easier but they also provide entertainment to us in diverse ways, like these [...]

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PCMag displays top 10 strange DIY robots

Robots , no doubt, like other technologies, have imbibed into our lives, especially Japan’s robot stores and museums have whet our appetites like never before and also have triggered the phenomenon beyond limits. The spread of this artificial intelligence technique has lured quite a number of DIY enthusiasts to try their hands on these machines. [...]

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Kondo KHR-2HV ROBO: All set for the GENEX RoboCup

This is a ‘Cool’ robot with a ‘Hot’ name; Kondo’s KHR-2HV ROBO looks as if it is here to prove its mettle. Every ROBO kit in the market scenario would feel down in front of this marvel. From my point of view it is probably the best looking robot after Robocop. The manufacturers have proposed [...]

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Nau: A Bipedal robot from Alderbaran

Alderbaran, a French Robotics company, has recently boasted of debuting a bipedal robot named Nau. It shows an immense feat of maintaining itself in equilibrium and can walk just like a human. Now this is seriously some ‘stuff’. The company has also shown off a video which reveals Nau’s first steps. Though it seems that [...]

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Will the Robops scare away the Liverpool pigeons?

Robop is a mechanical bird that will soon be perched on the rooftops around the British city of Liverpool. The mission is to scare away the obese lot of pigeons who are considered a nuisance in the city. The Robop is the brain child of a Scottish company and resembles a Peregrine Falcon – which [...]

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iRobot and Boeing team to develop the SUGV Early

Boeing and iRobot Corp. have joined hands to build up a novel, next-generation small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV) for militia, civilian and commercial usage. Weighing less than 30 pounds, the SUGV Early is much smaller than those Packbots, which are currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to detect mines and dig out roadside and car [...]

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Debate on robot rights heats up: Fear looms, but what if robots rise?

A government report that supported a debate on granting human-like rights to super-intelligent robots in the near future as ‘a distraction’ is allegedly condemned by the scientists and other critics. Scientists believe that before granting any rights to these super-intelligent robots, a detailed public debate should be called, over the use of robots by the [...]

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Scientists in Dundee planning to build a ‘Robot Village’

Earlier we introduced you a detailed debate on granting human-like rights to super-intelligent robots those are not yet developed. Now, Scientists in Dundee have unveiled their plans to form a ‘robot village’ in an attempt to study how diverse robots will behave in this society. After undergoing four-years of detailed study, University of Abertays will [...]

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Underwater whale guard robot

This may sound odd to you but it is true. An underwater robot that can hear the calls of whales, and so help ships to avoid them, has just been successfully trialled in the Bahamas. The system is very efficiently designed to eliminate all the flaws present in the previous systems. The robot’s batteries last [...]

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Ellos RescueBot: The giant spider-like robot saves you without getting hurt

This giant robot is capable of rescuing you in any case. Designed by an industrial designer Marcos Nolan, the Ellos RescueBot can reach those places where human beings can’t. It could be of great use in rescuing persons caught in in-traversable areas or war zones. The damage resistant giant robot features optical and biometric sensors [...]

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