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The future of robots is rat-shaped Paris (AFP) June 7, 2009 
Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab. If so, it will be time to scream... but out of joy, rather than fear, for it could be a turning point in the history of robotics. Psikharpax - named after a cunning king of the rats, according to a tale attributed to Homer - is the brainchild of ... read moreRobot Scientist Becomes First Machine To Discover New Scientific Knowledge 
London UK (SPX) May 07, 2009Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. The work was published in the journal Science. Prof Ross King, who ... more
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Chubb Insurance Reviews Benefits Of GeckoSystems' Mobile Robot Solutions
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 07, 2009GeckoSystems has announced that they demonstrated their latest CareBot MSR to a management team from Chubb Insurance. eckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile Service Robot (MSR) industry revolutionizing their development and usage with mobile robot solutions for safety, security, and service. "We really had no idea that multi-tasking personal robots were so advanced and nea ... more Japan child robot mimicks infant learning 
Suita, Japan (AFP) April 5, 2009A bald, child-like creature dangles its legs from a chair as its shoulders rise and fall with rythmic breathing and its black eyes follow movements across the room. It's not human - but it is paying attention. Below the soft silicon skin of one of Japan's most sophisticated robots, processors record and evaluate information. The 130-cm (four-foot, four-inch) humanoid is designed to lear ... more GeckoSystems Ready For Explosive Growth In Personal Robots
Conyers GA (SPX) Apr 07, 2009GeckoSystems has announced that their multi-tasking personal robot product, the CareBot MSR, satisfies the requirements indicated by ABI Research to penetrate this growing marketplace. The report from ABI Research is predicting that by the year 2015, people will probably be willing to spend as much for a multi-tasking humanoid robot as they would for a new car. "Within six years, the ... more Altair Software Helps Students Reshape Their Robots And Their Lives 
Troy MI (SPX) Apr 07, 2009Fifteen students at a Seattle-area high school are using Altair Engineering's OptiStruct software to help build robots for the national FIRST Robotics competition; but, to their amazement, the real prizes they have won have been improved social skills, a passion for teamwork and a newfound love of engineering. The team from Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Wash., worked with their career ... more |
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Tokyo school to host first robot teacher
Tokyo (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 Students at a Tokyo primary school will soon be learning from the first robot teacher, a Japanese science professor says. University of Tokyo Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi has created a robot capable of teaching human students while also expressing a limited range of emotions, including anger in case of unruly children, The Daily Telegraph said Thursday. The robot is named Saya and ... more Aurora Wins Contract For Multi-Robot Planetary Exploration 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the company, MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL) recently won a NASA Small-Business Technology Transfer Research proposal to develop a software system that performs command and control of a diverse team of mobile robots, operating in a variety of control modes, to perform multi-agent planetary explora ... more U.S., Chinese scientists build nanorobot 
New York (UPI) Feb 16, 2009 U.S. and Chinese scientists say they've created a two-armed nanorobot that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. Researchers at New York University and China's Nanjing University said the programmable unit allows researchers to capture and maneuver patterns on a scale that is unprecedented. New York University Professor Nadrian Seeman, one of the study's ... more NASA And Caltech Test Steep-Terrain Rover 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters. This prototype rover, called Axel, might help future robotic spacecraft better explore and investigate foreign worlds such as Mars. On Ear ... more |
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