Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Willow Garage Announces Expansion of PR2 Robot Community

Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotic applications, announced that the PR2 community has expanded to 16 leading research labs worldwide. Scientists and engineers at four leading research institutions have purchased the PR2 robot platform from Willow Garage will now be able to explore the innovative capabilities for personal robots at a much faster pace.

19 Dec 2010

Running Athlete: Artificial Musculoskeletal System

There have been running bipedal robots before, but their movement is mechanical very robot-like indeed. Ryuma Niiyama of MIT's Robot Locomotion Group wants to build a flexible, agile robot with less of a mechanical gait and more of a sprinter's-type stride, which means that it runs as human-like as possible.

14 Dec 2010

Exoskeleton Robot to Help Disabled Japanese Man Fulfil Dream

The robotics firm Cyberdyne has come up with a body suit to help the disabled to walk. An exoskeleton robot device called the Hybrid Assistive Limb), or HAL, a sci-fi related coincidence sharing its name with the computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".

13 Dec 2010

Korea Aims to be Major Robotics Player by 2018

Industrial robots make up the majority of the robotics industry. The international market is estimated to be worth around US$9.4 billion a year, with service robots making up around a third of this figure.

13 Dec 2010

Autonomously Guided Robot Drone

Robot drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are being used extensively not only for military applications, law enforcement and environmental monitoring.

13 Dec 2010

Robot Waitresses at Chinese Restaurant

The Dalu Rebot Restaurant, in Jinan, northern China's Shandong Province, has six robot waitresses and can cater for up to 100 diners.

12 Dec 2010

GM Humanoid to Work at International Space Station

Honda's Asimo isn't the only technologically advanced robot built by an automaker. General Motors has been involved with the development of Robonaut 2, which is scheduled to travel to space with NASA in February 2011. Robonaut 2, a.k.a. R2, is being described by General Motors, as the strongest, fastest and most dexterous and most technologically advanced humanoid robot.

9 Dec 2010

Superfast Robotic Butcher Awarded Grand Prize

At the recent Fourth Robot Awards, in Japan, two industrial food-processing robots took top prizes. The first is a machine that looks downright terrifying -- just a long, sleek robot arm with a gleaming knife welded to one end. It's the HAMDAS-R, developed by Mayekawa Electric, and it's designed to remove ham bones -- a lot of them. Five hundred in an hour, this is twice as fast as a human’s capability to debone a ham.

8 Dec 2010

Coming to the ER Soon: TriageBot

At the Humanoids 2010 conference held in Nashville this week a paper was presented on robotic help in ERs (emergency rooms) by author Mitch Wilkes, titled,"Heterogeneous Artificial Agents for Triage Nurse Assistance". Wilkes is the associate director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University.

8 Dec 2010

'I, Robot' Inspired Invention Wins Science Prize

The Siemens Competition announced the winners of its college scholarships during a ceremony at George Washington University. Six individual students and six teams of students competed in Washington after winning regional competitions in November. They presented their research to a panel of judges Sunday.

8 Dec 2010