Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Robot English Teachers Helping Korean Kids Learn

English teaching robots have taken over the classrooms in South Korea. Engkey is a teaching robot which takes English language classes in the coastal city of Masan in South Korea.

25 Oct 2010

Freshly Squeezed OJ Harvested by Robots

Very soon that orange that you squeezed for your morning glass of juice could have been picked by a robot. Robotics, machine-vision and virtual reality company Energid Technologies Corp reported that the US Department of Agriculture has funded a project to develop a commercial robotic citrus fruit harvesting system.

25 Oct 2010

Robopocalypse: Spielberg Adaptation for Big Screen

There's good news for Steven Spielberg fans as he has agreed to direct the upcoming epic from DreamWorks and Disney called Robopocalypse. The movie is set to hit the big screen in 2013.

25 Oct 2010

Robotic Prostatectomy Effective:Study

Prostate cancer treated with robotic assisted surgery has a 87% chance of recovery with no recurrence of the disease after five years. This is the finding of the first long term study of patients who have undergone surgical removals of cancerous prostates with robot assisted surgery.

22 Oct 2010

World's First All-Robotic Surgery Perfomed at McGill

Robots performed the first all robotic surgery at Canada's McGill University Health Centre last Wednesday.

22 Oct 2010

Australian Researchers Explore Coral Sea Twilight Zone

Scientists from four Australian universities will use a robot to explore the Coral Sea and investigate never-before-seen reefs. The researchers from Queensland will leave Cairns this week for a week long expedition.

22 Oct 2010

Robotic Dancer

A robot sang while human dancers backed it on stage entertaining audiences at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo. The HRP-4C is a robot made to resemble an average young adult Japanese woman. It was developed by Kwada and AIST. It struts, sings and dances and proved itself in a choreographed pop routine.

22 Oct 2010

Ohio Increases Spend on DNA Testing Robotics

State crime labs in London and Richfield, Ohio have been using robots designed to test DNA for a year now. On the anniversary of their joining the labs the Ohio Attorney General Richard Corday has decided to double their number by allocating $1.36 million in federal grants and state funds.

22 Oct 2010