For a robot gettinga round without tripping over everything in the way can be hard. The folks over at Segway Inc are looking to help robots get around more easily. The new platform they are developing, dubbed the 5D
Behavior Engine, is designed to help in path planning on the go.
A look at how the da Vinci robotic surgical system is being used to help professionals in sports to recover from injuries more quickly. The system is currently being creditied by Darryl Sutter, the coach of the L.A. Kings hockey team, with his speedy recovery after a recent surgery for a double hernia.
When it comes to fighting fires there are a lot of methods that can be used. Many of them, if not all, involve some kind of a risk to the lives of human beings. The use of new fire fighting robots can help change that. One prototype is currently in development at Perdue University.
A new robot designed by the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has taken robot dancing out of the jerking movements of the 1980’s and made them modern. A pair of robots that are good enough to copy the dance moves of humans has been ordered by the folks over at Google.
Have you ever wondered what the robots who take care of bombs do in their time off. They spend their spare time at the Western National Robot Rodeo. The event pits bomb robots, and their operators, against each other in a 10 event challeneg in a variety of different events, both indoors and outdoors.
A cheetahs can be a very scary animal. With chases that are often over in less than a sixty seconds you probably do not want face a real one. But what about a robot cheetah? A robot that is modeled after the cheetah is currently in development may be used for search and rescue in the future.
Test driving cars is harder then it looks. If you want to get the best testing, without hurting human test drivers in the increasingly rough situations, then you need to do something different. Many car makers are turning to help from non-human drivers. That’s right, robots may be testing the cars you drive every day.
A team of researchers at Chiba
University, in the Namiki Lab, have been working on an interesting robot. The robot, which plays air hockey for a living, is designed to do something interesting. The robot is able to adapt to the way you play and get better at the game.
A research initiative under the code name "Avatar" is opening its San
Francisco office this summer, and will be launching a social media
project connecting scientists around the world with the unprecedented goal of offering
them immortality. Dimitry Itskov, a 31 yr-old media entrepreneur aims
to transplant a human brain into a robot body within the next 10 years.
Robots can do a lot of things, but can they get you out of going to Albany for a really boring meeting? A robotics design team at Cisco, working with the folks over at iRobot, are hoping so. They are developing a bot that is designed to give HD telepresence. It can even drive itself to the meeting (from inside of the office, that is) to save you the site.
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