‘The Korean government plans to install next year two kinds of network-based robots to greet customers of post offices.
A 1.5-meter tall “male” security robot will guard the post office and shoot a net to capture unexpected intruders during the night time, while his girlfriend will take care of customers, for example, by showing fun video […]
‘ I have seen the future, and it looks sort of human (sometimes), makes whirring sounds (often), and fascinates geeks and gadget lovers of all ages (always). I’m talking about the robots that were on display at RoboNexus, a robotics show that just ended in Santa Clara, California. (Full disclosure: PC World was one of […]
‘A team of four astronauts are to “splashdownâ€? to an undersea laboratory in the US on Monday, to help conduct the first wireless robot-assisted surgery. Meanwhile in Canada - 2000 kilometres away from the operating table - a surgeon prepares to perform the procedures, to be carried out on Tuesday.
This will be the first time […]
‘Dr. Fill-All-Meds dispenses almost 6,000 medications a day for the patients at Baptist Memorial Health Care. He begins pulling medicines from the pharmacy at 3 a.m., places them into each patient’s drawer and completes the task by 8 a.m. He does the work of an entire staff all on his own.
Dr. Fill-All-Meds, or Robot-Rx, is […]
‘It breaks wind, burps, kicks and raps. And such skills, it appears, have won over British children, prompting them to pick a robot above board games and mind-testing puzzles as their toy of the year.
Robosapien, designed by Mark Tilden, a former Nasa scientist, was chosen over 130 other toys in the competition to find Britain’s […]
‘A GEELONG student hopes his robot can help save people becoming victims of landmines, which kill or maim some 25,000 each year.
University student Zoran Najdovski will tomorrow receive the vice-chancellor’s prize for his thesis, Autonomous Landmine Detection Robot.
The gifted student, who graduates in a double degree of mechatronics and software, has invented an autonomous robot […]
‘The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors and manage other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007 as more consumers snap up smart machines, the United Nations said.
That boom coincides with record orders for industrial robots, said the U.N.’s annual World Robotics Survey, released Wednesday.
The report, issued by the […]
‘A robot and a doctor have teamed up to treat fibroid tumors. Healthwatch’s Nesita Kwan reported Monday that fibroid tumors are a leading cause of hysterectomies for women ages 35-54. The surgery takes away their option to have a baby.
Kwan reported that a new procedure, which feels like something from a science fiction movie, preserves […]
‘It’s a robot that can seek out and extinguish fires. Designed by a team of three students from the city, it has won the first place in robotics at Shaastra 2004, a technical competition hosted by IITChennai earlier this month.
Winners Siddharth Dani, Gagan Awhad and Avid Phatak are third-year engineering students from Vishwakarma Institute of […]
‘A Dallas man uses a robotic devised strapped to his lifeless legs to work out on a treadmill.
Chuck Benefield was paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident last year.
But with a harness supporting his weight and a robotic exoskeleton called a Lokomat strapped onto his hips and legs, he’s able to simulate walking […]
G4techTV reviews the KHR-1 Fighting Robot Kit and writes:
‘I love it! It provides endless hours of fun. It fulfills the dreams of lots of little boys the world over. The only thing left is for it to follow me around and do my chores around the house… I do not consider the cost a problem […]
The Active Robotics Lab at University of Reading has put up this online networked robot that allows you to roam around Mars in a simulated Rover Robot. You need sun java from www.java.com to run it.
Found via Slashdot
‘Robot sales have hit a UK record high with experts predicting changes in the workplace over the next 10 years to parallel the impact of computers.
The Warwick University-based British Automation and Robot Association has revealed 507 machines were sold in the third quarter of 2004.
BARA chairman Dr Ken Young said firms were using robots to […]
‘TELEPHONE users in the UK are finding robots on the other end of the line.
If they do, it means they have been sent a text message — even though they don’t own a mobile telephone.
Instead of reading the message, the recipient on the landline will hear it spoken by a synthesised female voice.
The service — […]
‘Qatar is set to substitute robots for jockeys in camel races, a favourite sport in the oil-rich Gulf region that has faced widespread criticism over the use of child jockeys from the Indian subcontinent….
“We have successfully completed three phases in the production of the robot,” the president of the organising committee of camel races in […]