‘Groups of cooperating robotics working in hazardous environments will require a networked approach to systems design. One Australian research laboratory is leading the way.
Any human mission to Mars will require a high degree of robotic support to accomplish a wide variety and difficult tasks prior to human arrival. Tasks may require a large number of […]
PC Mag reviews the Robopet from WowWee and writes - ‘You have to give WowWee credit. The company is capitalizing (like nobody’s business) on the huge success of last year’s WowWee Robosapien robot, rolling out in rapid succession innovative and unusual robot toys for people of all ages. First, we saw the realistic, well-designed Roboraptor. […]
‘A CHILD-SHAPED humanoid robot that can recognise about 10,000 words and work as a house sitter will go on sale in Japan in September.
The `Wakamaru’ robot can recognise the faces of up to 10 people and talk to them. When linked to mobile phones, it can also work as a monitor to check situations at […]
‘A new microscopic robot that it is so small it can be injected into the body through a syringe could one day be used by doctors to analyze medical conditions, deliver drugs or perform minimally invasive surgery.
The biomedical micro-robotic system, developed by a team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, […]
‘ROBOTS that can work together as a team to search collapsed buildings for trapped casualties are being developed by researchers at Glasgow University.
Currently, firefighters use a camera on a long pole to investigate dangerously unstable structures following a fire, explosion, or other disaster.
The robots would enable them to do this far more thoroughly and could […]
‘The first of 330 of the newest robots designed to help soldiers find roadside bombs from a safe distance will start rolling off the assembly line next week, said Ken Zemach, whose company designs the robots.
The new devices are expected to arrive in Iraq and Afghanistan in three to five months, said Army spokesman Lt. […]
‘Worried about leaving your house empty while you go on vacation? Japan has the answer: a house-sitter robot armed with a digital camera, infrared sensors and a videophone.
Stores across Japan started taking orders Thursday for the Roborior - a watermelon-sized eyeball on wheels that glows purple, blue and orange - continuing the country’s love affair […]
‘MIT scientists are hoping to create a “workout area” for stroke sufferers that incorporates smart therapeutic robots to help patients regain movement of their bodies.
The researchers have recently created a robot, dubbed “Anklebot,” which helps stroke sufferers regain movement in their ankles.
The robot is in use at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, and marks […]
‘Using robotic arms to perform gastric bypass surgery may be the future of this increasingly popular weight-loss procedure, researchers report.
Dramatic weight loss with gastric bypass is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach, and is usually done by a minimally invasive procedure called a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y procedure.
However, this procedure is considered one of the […]
‘A flexible, electronic skin could provide robots, car seats and even carpets the ability to sense pressure and heat.
Japanese researchers say the new “skin” would not only sense both heat and pressure, but would be flexible, cheap and easy to make.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they say their artificial skin […]
‘THE US Army has deployed about 30 robots with troops in Iraq to scout out suspected roadside bombs, and has placed orders for several hundred more, an army official said in Washington overnight.
“To me, it’s a lot like an Easter Egg hunt: If you have more Easter egg hunters, you’ll find more Easter eggs,” said […]
‘Catching goldfish might seem like child’s play but, for a net-wielding robot, it is an extremely challenging task.
The goldfish-grabbing bot, known as “Poipoi”, was developed by researchers at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), in central Japan. It has been entered into an annual goldfish catching competition for children, which takes place in […]
‘Two unmanned Hummers called Sandstorm and Highlander, developed at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, are on their way to Carson City, Nev., for a six-week test run in the desert before the semifinals of the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge. A U.S. military-sponsored desert race that tests the driving endurance of robots, the […]
‘Gliding into the operating room for the first time to assist a surgeon, Penelope wasn’t nervous. Unlike other novice medical assistants scrubbing in, “she” felt nothing at all. That’s because Penelope is a robot, a machine that recently made medical history by becoming the first to act as an independent surgical aide during an operation.
During […]
‘A small Russian submarine was freed today from an undersea entanglement off the Far East coast by an unmanned British rescue vehicle that cut away the material that ensnared it. All seven crew members were alive and rushed aboard a Russian surface vessel, where they were being examined by a medical team, Russian news agencies […]