No, although it is not like the famous and powerful super smart Roomba vacuum cleaner but belongs to the same family. This time, iRobot has surprised us with a device that is no longer engaged to scrubbing floors or picking up dust but deals with a subject far more interesting as the control of what happens to every inhabitant of our house. Because ConnectR is a device consisting of a camera and a microphone that will monitor and listen to each family member Continue reading
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Spykee, another robot that monitors the home
I’ve had the opportunity to speak to ConnectR, the new iRobot robot that sees and feels everything. But it seems that this android shaped vacuum already has his opponent in the world of spies and investigations. His name is Spykee and was shown at the Digital Life show a New York also has been born not to follow in the footsteps of the inhabitants of the apartment but to control everything and every aspect of the home are as they should. Continue reading
NANC-E, the robot nanny
After sleepless nights, days when all they do is change diapers and women often fill bottles mad. Okay, are justified, I do not want to imagine the madness of a newborn little boy, with his bellowing, weeping, her belly dolorcillos in that rages in the heart, soul and patience of the generous mothers.
For them-and before resorting to the help of British nannies group we see on TV-the NANC-E robot Nannybot of Buy n Large can be very helpful. I further believe that agile android arms soon become best friends with these deranged mothers, housewives sudden and desperate for good …! Continue reading
ASIMO back
The Youth Engineering Show which hs supported & organized byHonda last 5 years has been held in New England where ASIMO is the main center of attraction again. This show runs for three days and will be visited by over 7,000 local school children.
The show is a fast moving 85-minute educational event involving presentations, interviews, demonstrations and videos about the world of engineering – as well as a performance of ASIMO itself. Over the three days, it provides an opportunity for around 7,000 year 7 and 8 students (11-14 year olds), to sample first hand the importance of engineering in modern day life and appreciate the range of career options available in this diverse field.
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Robot as safety assistants
NEDO (Organization for the Development of New Energy and Industrial Technology) began August 3 a “Project Implementation robot assistants. This project is divided into five parts. The first objective is to conduct R & D on methods of verifying the security of this type of robots, to establish safety standards and, ultimately, to propose these standards to the world, the ultimate goal is to launch spam on the Japanese market. The other four components relate to the parallel development of four types of robots:
– The robot supporting the autonomy of elderly and disabled (Panasonic).
– Robots can move only in public spaces: applications to everyday life (Fuji Heavy Industry) and monitoring (Alsok, Rangefinder, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Tokki System).
– Clothing robot “HAL”, lavishing assistance muscle (Cyber dyne, University of Tsukuba).
– A robot vehicle with which a disabled user can move (Toyota Motor, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Four Link Systems).
Bio-Robotics : Elastic Strip Framework
Most motion planning algorithms assume complete knowledge of the geometry of environment. Typically obstacles in the environment are assumed to be static or their motion is known as a function of time. To generate a motion, the algorithm performs a search in the configuration space of the robot, C.. Such a space encapsulates all legal, Cfree , and illegal, Cobs, configurations of the robot and the goal is to find a continuous path in Cfree connecting initial and final configurations. For robots with multiple degrees of freedom, the configuration space is extremely high-dimensional. To allow planning for environments with moving obstacles the configuration space must be further augmented by the dimension of time. Performing a search in such high-dimensional spaces is infeasible and people have in the past resorted to probabilistic and randomized approaches that confine the search space to a subset of all possible configurations. Continue reading
Digital Human Symposium 2009
News
Pre-Registration is now being available.
Schedule
- Theme: New Perspectives in digital human technology -human, information, and robotics-
- Date: March 4, 2009 (Wednesday)
- Place:
- Symposium: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation(7th floor MIRAI CAN Hall)
2-41, Aomi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0064 - Open house: AIST Waterfront (Access Map)
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- Symposium: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation(7th floor MIRAI CAN Hall)
Halluc II, a robotic vehicle with eight wheels
Researchers at Chiba Institute of Technology, unveiled a prototype of Halluc II project, a robotic vehicle with eight wheels and legs designed to drive or walk over rugged terrain. You can move sideways, turn in place and drive or walk on a wide range of obstacles. The researchers hope is that the capabilities of the robot help with rescue operations, and also consider Halluc II technology for use in transporting mobility-impaired.
The operator can put Halluc II in one of three modes depending on the field: Type of vehicle, insect or animal. In vehicle mode, Halluc II with eight driving wheels, but as it moves over uneven surfaces, each leg moves up or down. In insect mode, Halluc II does not use wheels, instead, walk with insect, with your legs extended outward from the phone. The way animal Halluc II keeps her legs directly under himself while walking, allowing it to move through tight spaces. With wireless capabilities, a system of cameras and sensors that monitor the distance to potential obstacles, constantly Halluc II determines which is the best possible way to adjust the position of its legs and wheels. Continue reading
Startup Power Sags Can Confuse Your ‘Bot
Here we are starting a new topics Designing robot power supplies, PCB Design Software, Robot Art, Practical Robot Design . You finally set your ‘bot on the floor for its first test run, hit the switch, and the computer starts acting all weird. A real bummer, especially since the robot works great propped up on struts on your workbench.
Chances are the problem lies with your power system. When motors start up, they require much more current than they use once they’re running. The battery will try its best to satisfy this bigger power requirement, but something has to give. In many cases, that “something” is the battery’s output voltage, which can sag so low that the robot’s MCU resets itself. Even worse, the MCU sometimes doesn’t reset cleanly, and “runs away,” executing garbage data from your EPROM. Continue reading
A robotic arm able to extract a piece of shrapnel without human assistance
Engineers at the University of Duke, have developed a prototype robot that can locate pieces of metal small size (one millimeter) in the flesh, and then guide a needle to their exact location, without the Using a human assistance. With this prototype the researchers are now convinced that it will be possible also to treat injuries on the battlefield, performing surgery high complexity, such as placing or removing radioactive seeds used in the treatment of prostate or other cancers.
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