President Obama has announced a $70 million initiative to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or co-operatively with people. The proposal has been called the National Robotics Initiative and is backed by a number of government run agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The researchers from Tokyo have developed a Robot, named Sense-Roid, which hugs you in return for your hug.
Researchers at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich have come up with an innovative robot, named ECCEROBOT-2, which is built on a solid yet flexible skeleton that is covered with mechanical muscles and tendons.
Custom Entertainment Solutions (CES) has launched a new animatronic head that closely resembles a human head.
Saskatchewan Science Centre has partnered with IBM to host the Saskatchewan Robotics Challenge. As part of the IBM Centennial year celebrations IMB’s subsidiary ISM Canada and Saskatchewan Science Centre will donate time and expertise in communities.
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed a child-like robot, named KASPAR. KASPAR stands for Kinesics and Synchronisation in Personal Assistant Robotics;
Is a robot going to take away Grandma’s job of making cookies? It sure seems that way when you see Bakebot at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory. The robot which was built by MIT graduate student Mario Bollini is a PR2 that can bake up a batch of cookies from scratch.
If James and Rosie are anything to go by personal robots are soon going to be cooking your breakfast and putting away your groceries. James is a product of the US robotics company Willow Garage and Rosie has been built by the Technical University of Munich.
Imperial College London Robotics Society students are gearing up for the finals of Eurobot. The team has already got through the initial rounds in UK in the international robotics competition. The team comprises of Leon Sim, Ben Homer, Asset Sarsengaliyev and supervisor Richard Inglis.
Intel Capital, an investment company belonging to Intel, has made an investment of $13 million towards the development of Humanoid Robots by Aldebaran Robotics.
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