The Robot Hall of Fame® inducted four robots chosen for the first time by a popular vote — Aldebaran Robotics’ NAO humanoid, iRobot’s PackBot bomb disposal robot, Boston Dynamics’ four-legged BigDog and WALL-E, the fictional robot of the namesake Pixar movie — during a ceremony Tuesday at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh.
Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren’t yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans.
Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno and his co-workers Robert Frank and David Pizarro from Cornell University and Cynthia Breazeal from MIT's Media Lab have found out the competence of non-verbal cues to estimate a person's and a robot's reliability, based on a robot called Nexi. The findings appeared in the journal Psychological Science.
For the first time members of the general public will help select four robots for induction into the Robot Hall of Fame® from a slate of a dozen nominees.
Robai has launched the Cyton Gamma, the highly advanced version of its Cyton robot arms. The Cyton Gamma has been designed similar to that of a human arm, thereby making it different from the standard industrial robot arms. Three axes have been included in each of the shoulder and wrist of the robot, while its elbow contains a single axes.
Queen Mary, University of London researchers have unveiled a fun new smartphone app. Based on LIREC approach, which is a recent European robotics research project, the app allows users to interact and manage their proprietary emotional pet robot.
Kairos Autonomi, a provider of robotic appliqué kits, will develop a mobile humanoid robot capable of carrying out human-like operations. The firm’s innovative business model will now be implemented in another Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC).
The word 'robot' was first introduced in 1920 by Czech writer Karel Capek, through his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots).
University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like precision.
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have carried out a study wherein robots were fitted with the right sensors, software and actuators to enable them to feel and touch different materials. This study creates a breakthrough in personal assistive robots, consumer product testing and prostheses.
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