Voice controlled quad-copter
March 18, 2010
Check out that modified quad-copter that is controlled using voice commands - yes, the same voice you use to ensure your pooch stays off the sofa or leaves your shoes alone can be used to puppet that robot any way you like. Responding to natural language, you can just casually mention, "take off and fly forward six feet” instead of using a cryptic command set. In the demonstration, it uses an iPhone and a headset as the input microphone, where the language will be parsed by the software before sending by the resulting commands sent to the four-rotor copter.
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Will Wars Be Taken Underground With The Robotic Underground Munition?
March 16, 2010
Sure, we battle on the land, sea, and in the air, but could the next phase of war be underground? Based on the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s desire for a robot that is capable of navigating underground, it could well be that we’ll have to guard against underground threats in the future too. The aftereffect of that notion is the Robotic Underground Munition (RUM), an underground robot that would first soft land, next start drilling into the earth until it reaches its target, which it will next presumably blow up some way or another. All is fair in love and war, isn’t it?
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Twendy-One robot
March 11, 2010
The Twendy-One robot took by a decade of research by Professor Shigeki Sugano and his team of researchers at Waseda University, Japan, where they were assisted by by 20 private companies to come up with a robot that is able to co-exist with humans in an aging society. that seems to be a phenomenon with Japan (and perhaps Singapore in the near future), so robots might be their only hope when it comes to companionship and caregiving during one's golden years. Twendy-One's most notable feature would be its mechanical passive impedance mechanism that allows it to adapt to unexpected external forces. With a four-fingered hand, it is able to pick up tiny flat objects without a problem, featuring soft finger tips but a hard nail. whether you want a caregiver that doesn't gossip behind your back or poison you slowly by date to have a bite at your inheritance, next you might want to consider forking out around $110,000 to $210,000 for the Twendy-One.
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Robosoft Kompai introduced
March 10, 2010
Robosoft of France has introduced a grade new robot known as Kompai, where it is meant to help the elderly as well as disabled, not to mention others who require special care. Kompai is intelligent decent to understand speech while navigating autonomously. Smart abundant to remind you of meetings while keeping track of shopping lists, Kompai can plus play music to entertain you during those down-moments alongside functioning as a videoconference system. for users to talk with their doctors, for example. No notion on how much Kompai will cost though.
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Hai Bao robot
March 9, 2010
The folks by at Zhejiang University have developed a friendly robot known as Hai Bao, which when translated from Chinese would mean "maritime treasure". Standing 155cm tall, it comes with an LCD display that shows off animated facial expressions. Apart from blurting out greetings in half a dozen languages, Hai Bao sports an intelligent hand-shaking system. Hai Bao is plus able to interact with tourists by snapping photos on their behalf, perform a little jig or even sing some songs. Doesn't sound like someone you would want to employ for your office reception area though.
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Robot Helps With Tedious Job Of Sorting Plastic For Recycling
March 3, 2010
While everybody is trying to go green and get into the whole recycling trend, having to sort through the plastics in the pre-recycle sort isn’t precisely fun or easy. Factor in the deal that the recycle numbers stamped on most plastic containers don’t accurately indicate whether they can be recycled together or not, and you’ve got one troublesome process. Fortunately, the folks by at Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Corp and Osaka University are busy trying to solve the problem, with robots. Said robot will be able to utilize five lasers of different wavelengths to determine the reflectivity index, and therefore the composition of the plastics, allowing them to be separated via automation, rather than getting a human being to do it. There isn’t any mention of how much plastic that machine can sort through on a daily basis, but we hope that it’ll be a lot faster than getting human beings to sort through it. You’ll need to shell out about $55,000 to get one of these robots, though. It’s good to see that we’re moving forward towards a greener future.
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Dalek Robot controlled by iPhone
March 3, 2010
The iPhone is a marvelous device whether you know how to pull its strings, and that is where Steve from BotBuilder.co.uk steps in with a sort new Dalek Robot which is controlled via an iPhone, although an iPod touch will do nicely as well. The Apple device will relay OSC signals via Wi-Fi to processing which will in turn talk by serial to the Servo Board. Whenever you tilt your iPod or iPhone, the Dalek will move in the corresponding direction thanks to the accelerometer input collected and processed.
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