Robot shopping in Japan for pensioners

Posted in Robot worldwide on September 11th, 2008 by admin

Tmsuk reports again with even more human robot action. This time, they show us a shopping Robo of very, very far away can be controlled. The modified TMSUK-4 humanoids (but not necessarily a robot from the pole) ran in Kitakyushu, Japan (where else), from home on a NTT DoCoMo Videophone before acting visibly beglucktem audience to buy a few hats. Apparently betagtere saw the lady through the eyes of a robot and controlled his movements around each behende Funkloch around across the Hutabteilung and probably happy now jumps up and down, because they used their new head covering finally looks like Prizessin Victoria. Read more »

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Honda introduced the robot ASIMO 2

Posted in 3c on September 9th, 2008 by admin

Honda Motor introduced the new version of Asimo, the humanoid robot. It may take the role of receptionist, bartender or companion. A man … uh robot to do everything.ImageHonda Motor, the third Japanese manufacturer of automobiles, had submitted its humanoid robot Asimo, at the Universal Exposition Aichi in Japan, an exhibition which ended on September 25 last.

Its mascot, high of just 130 cm and weighing just 54 kilos, was object of curiosity to the public. The robot then took care of administrative tasks, welcoming visitors, but also serve cocktails. Read more »

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Citroen C4 Robot Skating

Posted in Video on September 7th, 2008 by admin

New ad for Citroen C4, featuring track The Egg Walking Away.

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If robot soccer professionals fear Teaching

Posted in Robot worldwide on September 6th, 2008 by admin
RoboCup 2006 Fußball Weltmeisterschaft der Roboter

The Robocop competition has long been mocked as mere gimmick. But researchers from other fields see the chickened machines now the high art of robotics. By the year 2050 will be acting autonomously humanoid robot can play better football than people. Specifically: A robot team, according to official FIFA rules against the then reigning world champion and when. That is the stated objective of the international Robocop initiative, the Chinese Suzhou near Shanghai just their twelfth annual World Cup tournament has finished. The project solves either spontaneous enthusiasm, surprise or anxiety. In particular, experts respond but is still happy with herablassendem Naserumpfen. Robot Soccer is not a serious science, it is about. Read more »

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Robot hears on laser pointers

Posted in 3c on September 3rd, 2008 by admin

A team of scientists of the ‘Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and the Emory University’ has developed a robot, via point-and-click can be instructed, objects to collect. The selected objects are the robot simply by a green laser pointer. The researchers see this as a step towards robots assistance for patients with severe movement restrictions. “We consider the Fetching objects as a core capability for future robots in the medical care and at home,” said Charlie Kemp, head of research teams. On the one hand, it was important that robots such as cleaning work umlagern items, on the other hand, be it for more complex tasks such as cooking required that a robot which can fetch even utensils. Just this feature with the ‘El-E’ robot called now demonstrated. Read more »

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