In research worthy of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot,” Bertram Malle is working to design a moral robot.
An image of a robot ‘listening’ to an unborn child has won the ‘People’ category in this year’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Science Photography Competition.
Actors are not robots, Hollywood evidence aside.
Who is the teacher: the student or the machine? By showing a robot how to write letters, children improve their writing skills and gain self-confidence. This system, called CoWriter, was developed by EPFL researchers.
KASPAR, the University of Hertfordshire’s social robot, has been recognised as one of the most important university science research projects in the UK and is being showcased at a high profile science fair in London today.
RxRobots™ announced today that it has delivered four MEDi® robots to Alberta Children's Hospital where MEDi® was developed along with plans to expand into the U.S. market this year. RxRobots builds applications for robots to interact with children while they are having painful medical procedures done, such as vaccinations and blood tests.
Ian Murray, MP for Edinburgh South, has visited the Heriot-Watt Robotics Centre in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS), hosted by Professor Ruth Aylett.
A little girl lines up plastic letters fitted with QR codes in front of a little humanoid robot. The robot struggles to reproduce them on a tablet - especially the loop of the letter p. The girl kindly steps in to help, writing out the word to show the robot how to do it. She puts in effort to teach the robot... without realizing that in reality she is the one who is improving her writing skills. Yesterday, EPFL researchers presented their new teaching tool, called CoWriter, at the "Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)", an important event in the field of interactive robotics, held in Portland, USA.
Robai and Intelitek have launched a new line of humanoid robots—the CytonE family—for education. The size of a human arm and weighing under five pounds, each CytonE arm has seven independent axes of motion plus a gripper.
The launch of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) was announced in a press conference at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE on February 15, 2015. The launch event was facilitated by a robot, who directed guests to their seats. MBZIRC, organized by Abu Dhabi-based Khalifa University, will be held every two years and boasts prizes worth a total of USD 5 Million. The event is named after the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
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