A professor of Computer Science at the OU College of Engineering claims that robots can one day be made to care for fellow robots and human beings as well. Professor Dean Hougen works on his research at the OU Robotic Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab at OU.
At Massey University, New Zealand engineers are working on a robotic leg that can kick with great accuracy into goals. The accuracy of the robotic leg will be challenged by ‘All Black’ ace Andrew Mehrtens during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Handroid is a scary looking robotic hand that looks like it came right off your biology lab skeleton. The robot hand was developed by a Japanese robotic firm called ITK and is a fully articulated robotic hand that claims the same dexterity as a human hand. It is also very light at a mere 740 grams.
Robonaut 2 the humanoid robot that NASA sent up with the last shuttle Discovery has been unboxed. Robonaut 2, also known as R2 was delivered five months ago to the International Space Station and has been powered up for the first time on this mission.
MABEL the bipedal robot from the University of Michigan may not have a head but it still holds the record for being the fastest robot which can move at 6.8 miles per hour. MABEL was created in 2008 by a then doctoral student at the Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University called Jonathan Hurst.
Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotics, has come up with a new PR2 robot for research applications. This model, the PR2 SE, has one arm and will cost you user $285,000. The robot development kit which has an updated sensor suit and a single can be upgraded with a second arm at a later date.
At the Hasegawa Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology Japanese scientists have created a robot that can learn based on past experiences. The robot can think, learn and react to situations and teach itself new behaviours in an unsupervised manner.
The North Vermont flagship technology- based project launched by Terasem Movement Foundation, LifeNaut.com will be featured in the August issue of the National Geographic Magazine.
Remember Wall-E from the Disney Pixar movie? Well he’s back and he’s real. Catch his very real dance moves on YouTube uploaded by user aliencurv if you don’t believe me. DJ Sures is the Canadian guy who took one of the plastic Wall–E toys and jazzed it up to become a real robot.
Massey University is very closely associated with the Rugby World Cup 2011. The event is the largest sporting event that New Zealand has been involved in this year. Staff, students and alumni of the Massey University are providing full support for the event.
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