Posts Tagged Robots
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i-Fairy Officiates A Japanese Wedding
In May, a couple in Japan was wed by a robot priest named "i-Fairy". i-Fairy was first seen at the CES 2010 in Las Vegas early this year. According to the company's representative, the robot can be “programmed with the user’s voice and accompanying body gestures that give the I-FAIRY a mo...
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PR2 Sees, PR2 Does More
The first time I covered the story about PR2, was when he did multiple folding at a time. Last May, Willow Garage has announced PR2's Beta Program. And since it’s open source you can expect that PR2 will become more and more useful and functional in many ways, at work, play or rest. Now, PR...
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Robocup2010: Pre-Finals
Robocup 2010 willl be held in Singapore in June. But pre-qualification finals are on-going everywhere early on this year to screen hundreds of robot participants. In the latest “RoboCup Japan Open 2010″, we saw several enthusiastic robot owners all wanting to win a place for the finals. ...
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Iron Man in the Real World: Top 5 Exoskeletons
Have you watched the latest film "Iron Man"? Maybe while watching or even after watching it, you've wished you had the same super strength to overcome your weakness. Great news! The Iron Man does exist in the real world but of course you have to cash in hundreds or thousands of dollars to get one...
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Chararobo Creates Robot Mascot for Cable TV
A new Japanese company called Chararobo (Character Robot) has produced a robot for Cable TV, Inc. based on C.C.9’s mascot Kyuchan (kyu being “9″ in Japanese). This robot starts to dance when it detects a person nearby. It is located on the front desk on the Cable TV’s headquarters. ...
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Segway RMP bots used for sniper target practice
These target bots from Marathon Robotics, have Segway RMP bases with half-mannequins on top that respond to being shot by toppling over. The robots are programmed to wander around randomly, and when one goes down, the rest scatter. This unique system was designed in conjunction with the Australi...
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Robot Teachers Invade Korean Classrooms By 2012
According to South Korea's etnews, the country has announced plans to invest in a so-called "R-Learning" program that promises to put robotic teaching assistants in up to 500 pre-schools by 2012 just after a few months of trials, and expand to a full 8,000 pre-schools and kindergartens the follo...
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Kompaï – The First Generation Humanoid Robot
Kompaï, thanks to the ingenuity of the French company Robosoft, is a robot designed to assist dependent persons at home. This amazing robot can speak, understand what it is said to it, find its way all around the house and can even access all internet services with just a word. With Kompaïâ...
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Emotional Robot FEELIX Has Empathy
A robot that can distinguish human emotions was developed by the European Feelix Growing project. The overall aim of this project is the interdisciplinary investigation of socially situated development from a global or integrated viewpoint. It is said that robots are incorporated in human’s e...
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Biomimetics: Climbing Robots Use Whegs
Researchers at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab or the Biomimetics Lab, developed the Whegs series. Case Western Reserve University used both wheels and legs to create Whegs robots, mini-Whegs, and climbing mini-Whegs. The robots move freely at a relatively high speed and climb over obstacl...
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Robotic Fly Takes Off
There are already many flying robots that exist but this robotic fly is the first at such a small scale. Enthused by a true fly, Prof. Wood and his team from Harvard University developed a 60 milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan that is able to achieve the flight performance of a re...