TOKYObay Robots Unleashed on Unsuspecting Cubicles
Limited Edition Retro-Inspired TOKIBOT Clocks Now Available at www.tokyobayinc.com
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Wearable Sensors Conceived at Harvard Robotics Lab Measure Hand Forces
FingerTPS(TM) Put Comfortable Tactile Sensors at Your Fingertips, Literally
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Pioneer in Robotic Cardiac Surgery Completes Milestone
Development and Perfection of Robotic-Assisted Mitral Valve Repair Boon to Patients…
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A robot with moth brains: Turn off the lights
Aargh just the thought of having all those moths in my house makes my skin crawl. And now imagine the century’s favourite invention, the robot, having moth brains? Yeah believe your eyes. It’s true. The six inch robot moth apparently has been man-gifted the brains of a moth. It would use a moth’s eyes and brain to move around and do its stuff, whatever that might be. It’s technically an operation to test the efficacy of such a thing to help paralytic victims develop the ability to move. All that’s fine, but what about the lights? Read more
RobotDeal: Toyota takes over Sony´s Aibo division
Aibo lives! So does Qrio. And what a global outcry it was last year, when Sony CEO Howard Stringer announced he was pulling the plug from the Japanese company´s robot business: Aibo, the walking, barking, rolling robotic dog and dancing humanoid companion Qrio - expired and discarded. But now, automotive giant Toyota is acquiring Sony´s whole robotics division, bringing on board not just Aibo and Qrio but also the researchers and staff who had spent years of dreaming up man´s best tin friend. Our dear friends at the venerable Nihon Keizai Shimbun, aka Nikkei, has this scoop today (Friday in Japan). The deal is unconfirmed by either side, as of yet. But we´ll be back with details - stay tuned.
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Smallest humanoid robot soon replaces whacky toys for kids
No, they are not two toys in sync, imitating Sylvester John and Arnold Schwarzenegger ice-skating while wooing some chicks with their muscles; they are in fact, the world’s smallest humanoid robots.
Only 165 mm in height and 350 gms in weight, the iSobot (that’s what it’s called) is packed with 17 micro-actuators and a gyro-sensor. Read more
Yaskawa’s Motoman DIA10: Scaring the mailboys away
Well, as if robots taking over your doctors and construction workers weren’t enough, you might soon be entering DHL and Fedex stores only to be greeted by the plastic grin of a robot sorting your mail. You think that’s funny? Well, if Yaskawa has its way, it won’t be. The Yaskawa Motoman DIA10 can sort a supposedly impressive 1000 pieces of mail in under one hour. Time effective, huh? They say, it’s meant to provide backup for your mail-workers, but think about it, would a company Read more
Hortibot: ‘Keeping things going’ for the agricultural world
Don’t tell me I don’t keep warning you enough, these robots are set to take over you and me for good. One day it’s not technology, it’s you and me who are going to be obsolete, coz robots seem to be learning everything from mowing the lawn to construction work to playing with your baby to I wonder what not! Read more
Homeland Security: Robots to the Rescue
The Department of Homeland Security is training emergency responders to use Urban Search & Rescue robots.
The robots are deployed to find victims and rendering a collapsed structure safe for human helpers. This scenario will require robots to traverse wreckage and debris to map the scene, look in windows to locate victims, find hazardous leaks, take samples of substances and identify tanker placards describing their contents. Read more
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