‘Starting this autumn, 1,000 sophisticated robots will make people’s daily lives easier by cleaning up homes, taking care of pets or reading books for children.
About half of the robots will be remote-controlled by cell phones.
Oh Sang-rok, project manager at the Ministry of Information and Communication, Thursday unveiled the scheme that will run from September to […]
‘Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication.
“The result is machines that evolve and develop by themselves without human intervention,” said Stefano Nolfi, the coordinator the ECAgents project. The project, financed by the European Commission’s […]
‘A team of southern scientists is confident their mechanical creation can keep bomb-disposal squads who battle the border insurgency in the region out of harm’s way.
The researchers, from the Prince of Songkla University’s Hat Yai campus, hope their award-winning invention will soon be able to defuse bombs and save lives in the three southernmost provinces. […]
‘This year seems destined to be remembered as a golden one for Thai robots, which claimed three awards at the World RoboCup 2006 competition in Bremen, Germany earlier this month.
Thai team “Independent”, from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok (KMITNB), beat out all rivals by a wide margin to take first place in the […]
‘Mobile robots could become businesses’ newest recruits in the not-too-distant future, raising questions about who will ultimately manage these machines.
The industry for mobile robots—machines that can interact with their environment and navigate on their own versus fixed-function bots—is emerging from university labs into the mainstream. Many robots are still rudimentary and expensive to manufacture. And […]
‘In a breakthrough for the battle against mankind’s most diehard enemy - the cockroach - European scientists have hoodwinked a group of them into congregating in a place where they can be stamped on easily.
The kick in the mandibles comes from a Belgian-led team who spent three years developing a mini robot that can convince […]
‘Robots are playing an important role in U.S. military operations in Iraq, but upgrades are needed before battlefield bots take on greater responsibilities, an Army official says.
Nearly 10,000 robots are currently deployed in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Charles Cartwright, program manager for the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems, said Tuesday at a conference for robotics industry […]
‘Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could become the stuff of science reality, as researchers aim to prove.
Most research into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) that underpins any form of intelligent […]
‘Robots are being used to patrol a stadium at the World Cup for the first time, although they’ve hardly had a chance to show off what they can do.
The Berlin company Robowatch has developed two models of surveillance robots, and 11 units between the two patrol parking lots underneath Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and throughout a […]
‘An Italian domestic robot that reminds people when to eat, sleep and even when to take medicine, has won a top prize at the RoboCup tournament in Germany.
Lucia, a robotic home helper, was created by a team from the Italian National Research Council. The entry won over hundreds of rivals and came in third in […]
‘Robots are playing an important role in U.S. military operations in Iraq, but upgrades are needed before battlefield bots take on greater responsibilities, an Army official says.
Nearly 10,000 robots are currently deployed in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Charles Cartwright, program manager for the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems, said Tuesday at a conference for robotics industry […]
‘Software giant Microsoft Corp. sees the future and it is robots. The Seattle-based company on Tuesday previewed a set of new software tools that aims to give developers a simpler way to design robots and to create and test programs that operate a wide range of machines — from toys to floor sweepers to those […]
‘Thai-made Rescue Robots have emerged as the champions of the World RoboCup Rescue 2006 competition, beating other competitors by a wide margin. The robots from the Independent Team, the only Thai team in this international contest’s Rescue category, earned a score of 109 in the final round while the first runner up was way behind […]
‘You want to put fertiliser or pesticide on your crops, but don’t want to expose yourself to such toxic substances.
Maybe you want to survey an unknown area to see the view from the sky, but it’s too risky and expensive to send someone to do the surveillance.
The mechatronics laboratory at the Asian Institute of Technology […]
‘In the next few years, football world powers like Brazil, Argentina, Italy or Germany may be in for some really tough competition — from none other than humanoid robots!
These humanoid robots can already be seen in action at the ‘RoboCup 2006′, an international football tournament which kicked off on Wednesday in Bremen.
As many as 440 […]