Posts Tagged ‘robots’
Furhat Robotics, which is based out of Stockholm, is attempting to bring robots that mirror human emotion into the workplaceThe company, which hopes to incorporate the bots into training modules, has designed the product with pre-built gestures and fa... ...
Tally is a "shy" robot.
Unlike the gregarious, extroverted Pepper robot seen roaming in shopping malls and interacting with customers and answering questions, Tally quietly does its thing with the occasional beeping sound.
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Elowan is a "plant-robot hybrid" that uses its own bio-electromechanical signaling to drive itself around toward light sources. From an explanation by researcher Harpreet Sareen and his colleagues at the MIT Media Lab:
In this experimental setup, electrodes are inserted into the regions of interest (stems and ground, leaf and ground). The weak signals are ...
This is what happens when MekaMon invade a model village. They seem to pop up in the unlikeliest of places... Read more...More about Tech, Gaming, Robots, Mekamon, and Entertainment ...
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have switched on CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN), a new AI companion robot built by German space agency DLR, Airbus, and IBM. CIMON is an interface for IBM's WATSON AI system. From Space.com:
Marco Trovatello, a spokesman of the European Space Agency's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, told ...
After sticking a perfect landing on the Martian surface this afternoon, NASA's InSight robot has successfully deployed its solar panels. Tomorrow, once its batteries are charged, InSight will fire up its scientific instruments and get to work collecting data about the planet's interior.
From NASA/JPL-Caltech:
NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its ...
Researchers at Melbourne, Australia's RMIT University devised these bizarre "third arm" chest-mounted"robots to experiment with what they call "playful eating." For science. Video below. From RMIT University's Exertion Games Lab:
In this experience, all three arms (the person’s own two arms and the “third” arm, the robotic arm) are used for feeding oneself and the other ...
This is the new version of Affetto, the robot child head that's a testbed for synthetic ****** expressions. According to the Osaka University researchers who birthed Affeto, their goal is to "offer a path for androids to express greater ranges of emotion, and ultimately have deeper interaction with humans." From Osaka University:
The researchers investigated ...
If San Francisco's robot security guards faced backlash for simply standing around, an autonomous tech company's latest self-driving idea doesn't stand a chance.
This week PerceptIn, a Chinese robotics company with Silicon Valley offices, introdu... ...
In this year's RoboCon in Japan, teams of high school students built a bunch of bottle-flipping robots that can nail the internet challenge better than most of us. Read more...More about Robots, Mashable Video, Japan, Contest, and Competition ...