What do you do if get bored by making electrical appliances you make a machine-gun robot. Samsung it seems has added another product to its line and that being a robot which can seek and destroy any moving object that comes in its range. A good sentry for the troops! At $200,000 it seems to [...]
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Japan has gone a long way in robotics and created many landmarks. It has created a number of robots, which can efficiently perform the task assigned to them. A well known name in field of robotics is Professor Shigeo Hirose at the Tokyo Institute of Technology who has spent almost half is life in robotic [...]
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RI-Man is a five foot tall robot that has been designed to give a 24 hours attendant to old people and physically handicapped patients. The robot has the capabilities to see, smell and responding to commands. The robot has been developed by the RIKEN Bio-Mimetic Control Research center team. Giving more info on the internal [...]
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You must have seen robots doing crazy things and be pleased about the technology behind the machine. Sarcoman robot certainly is a step forward in robotics for it can dance, juggle, play air hockey, balance a pole, as well as play paddle ball that even you might not be able to carry out. See the [...]
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Shadow Robot Company has designed a shadow robot hand, which has open program code under GPL and hence having unlimited uses. However, the hand bears weird looks but still it is so well designed that it can pick up small coins or even hold a tomato delicately. This enormous functional capability is a gift for [...]
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NEC has designed a personal robot R100 with a vagary behavior. The robot is smart enough to assist you personally time to time and can be a good companion of yours. This small robot looks like a de-feathered penguin but has a no of technologies clubbed up in its small structure. It uses visual recognition, [...]
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Totbot’s Hacking Roomba is now available for pre-order and the book teaches you to hack Roomba and make it sing, dance and do a variety of other functions and also change its brain. With this book you can become a robotics Engineer and can build a Bluetooth interface for your Roomba and can also install [...]
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Robots have proved to be the best companions of humans. We have mostly designed robots to perform those dangerous tasks those include risk for us. Their field of operation has extended from earth to water and even in space. Osaka University in Japan has designed one such hybrid robot known as Squid Robot that has [...]
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dU Hitec’s latest creation is an ‘ASENDRO EOD’ Robot that can detect any suspicious object and remove it with its gripper arm. The most innovative feature is the hand tracking function that can move its hands in the same way as the supervisor from a remote location. Either the Robot can move autonomously or by [...]
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D2E introduced ‘IGURO’, an intelligent human interface robot at World 2006′ event. The robot has built-in vision sensors and automatic recognition system that helps it to serve as a guide in public spaces. It can communicate readily with humans with its speech recognition module and a voice composition device. It also allows the user to [...]
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