Japanese company Robo Garage, which is sponsored by the University of Kyoto, introduced on Tuesday (27.10.09) its latest development – a cute robot ROPID. The main achievement of the robot, which he was “pleased” the crowd showed journalists – the ability to jump and land on his feet! Height ROPIDa is 38 centimeters, weight – 1,6 kg. Continue reading
You all have long been familiar with the robot BigDog. But now we are acquainted with the new generation of robots of this design, which called Petman. Its design represents a human body to the waist. A robot developed by Boston Dynamics, Continue reading
In the Laboratory of Information Technologies of the University of Al-Ain (United Arab Emirates) has appeared the world’s first robot that spoke Arabic. More than a year a group of researchers, including university students, worked on the creation of this unique in its kind of mechanism. The appearance of the robot given it is in the spirit of the ancient and wise of the East. Continue reading
This summer, at an exhibition in Tokyo, the company introduced Toyo Riki robot Motoman SDA10, baked pancakes. This robot is independently preparing ingredients, lays out the dough on the stove, then a special shovel flips a pancake and handed it to the table. Continue reading
Swedish programmer, Hans Andersson, used Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to develop a robot that can solve Sudoku Puzzles (Sudoko).
The robot uses an optical sensor to scan the puzzle. First performs a quick scan to determine which cells are empty. There have been empty squares and figures, then the robot moves slowly forward for scanning a new line. Continue reading
Hitachi GST produces not only TV sets and other equipment, but also interested in robotics. Hitachi has developed a robot to support people’s daily lives. Robot EMIEW (Excellent Mobility and I nteractive Existence as Work-mate), developed by the company, balancing on the wheels, Continue reading
The rehabilitation center city Allentown (USA, Pennsylvania) pass tests robotic wheelchair, which can independently get to any place within the city. Developers dump in this autonomous robot laser sensors and video cameras. Using three-dimensional maps and images of the urban environment, man enough to point the remote control location where you need to get. Continue reading
In May 2009, in Japan, Municipal Environmental Center processing (G. Yao, Yao), with the assistance of students has developed an environmentally friendly robot (Recycling & Environment Robot), whose purpose – teaching children waste. Continue reading
Team led by Utah Segiura (Yuta Sugiura) at the University of Keio (Japan) have created a robot control system without the keyboard and joystick. Walky robot performs all the actions that make the operator’s fingers on the touch-screen iPhone. Continue reading
There is a saying “a journalistic cliche. This is when the material is based on a scheme of which are old nauseam verbal expressions and verbal constructions. On the one hand it right and “win-win”, on the other – just bored. Obviously, it is by such methods using robot journalist, which are designed in the Laboratory of Computer Science of Intelligent Systems in Tokyo (ISI). Continue reading