- Hard working Robot analyzes past failures and corrects its behavior patterns!
Toyota Motor Corp. and a research body of the University of Tokyo have jointly developed a prototype for what many busy career people have been dreaming of for a long time: A hardworking robot that handles household chores. The 155-cm, 130-kg humanoid robot excels in the capacity to distinguish and perceive objects such as furniture and cleaning equipment, its developers said. The robot is equipped with two arms, five recognition cameras and laser sensors. It gets around on wheels. The robot also analyzes past failures and corrects its behavior patterns.
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- October 27, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Korean robotic plant has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions!
The robot research laboratory at Chonnam National University, Korea has developed a robotic plant that has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. Just like real plants, the robotic plant emits oxygen, moisture, and aroma. It also responds in various ways to stimuli from outside, such as approaching persons, music or light. When a person comes within a 40 cm radius of the flower, its supersonic sensor perceives the approach, the stem bends towards the person, and the buds come into full bloom. When the person leaves, the plant returns to its original state. If a person's voice becomes louder than a certain level, the flower buds will come into bloom, and the stem shakes slightly to suggest a greeting. When the room lights up, the buds open and close, and when music is played, the plant dances.
- October 16, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Robotic suit that helps people with mobility problems available for rent in Japan
Cyberdyne a new company in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan will mass-produce a robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems. HAL- short for hybrid assistive limb -is a computerized suit with sensors that read brain signals directing limb movement through the skin. The robotic suit will be available for rent in Japan for ¥220,000 ($2,200) a month .The invention may have far-reaching benefits for the disabled and elderly. The 10-kg battery-operated computer system is belted to the waist. It captures the brain signals and relays them to mechanical leg braces strapped to the thighs and knees, which then provide robotic assistance to people as they walk. HAL comes in three sizes — small, medium and large — and also has a one-leg version for a ¥150,000 ($15,000) rental fee. The one –leg version weighs approximately 6 kg (excluding battery).
- October 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- VIA EPIA Pico-ITX-based entertainment robots
VIA today showcased VIA EPIA Pico-ITX-based entertainment robots at the Taipei International Robot Show, being held on 21-24 August at the World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. At the VIA booth there will be three compact robots provided by PlayRobot, a Taiwan-based robot developer and distributor of educational, scientific and entertainment robots for government, academic and research institutes, as well as robot kits for enthusiasts (www.playrobot.com). One, the popular Johnny 5 robot, has been fitted for the show with the very latest Pico-ITX board, the VIA EPIA P700 featuring the VIA VX800 unified chipset.
- August 22, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Underwater robot Sentry powered by 1000 lithium-ion batteries completes first seafloor survey mission
The newly-developed underwater robot Sentry capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) into the ocean, has successfully completed its first scientific mission, the U.S. National Science Foundation reported on Wednesday. Sentry is a state-of-the-art, free-swimming underwater robot that can operate independently, without tethers or other connections to a research ship. Working in tandem with sonar instruments on the UW-operated research vessel Thomas G. Thompson and with photo-mapping by WHOI's TowCam seafloor imaging system, Sentry gathered the most precise maps to date of seafloor features known as Hydrate Ridge and Axial Volcano off the coast of Oregon and Washington. The vehicle has thrusters built into its foils, or wings. Like an airplane, the foils allow the vehicle to gain lift or drag or directional momentum, as needed. The autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, is pre-programmed with guidance for deep-water surveying, but it can also make its own decisions about navigation on the terrain of the seafloor.
- August 14, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Talk to NEC PaPeRo home robot to reach your destination by the best route
NEC demonstrated the use of its PaPeRo home robot as a human machine interface (HMI) for inputting information, such as the destination and purpose of an outing, into a car navigation system and other devices. According to NEC, the purpose of utilizing PaPeRo as an HMI is to improve user convenience through the use of a home robot equipped with voice recognition and camera functions, instead of using a touch panel or other devices, which are usually used to input information into a car navigation system. For example, when a user in house tells the robot that he is "going to Yokohama on a date," the robot recognizes that person's voice and uploads the information to the server via wireless LAN, etc. The server performs an arithmetical operation on the uploaded information in consideration of the dialogue history between the robot and the user, the knowledge information inputted to the robot, the season, the time, etc.
- July 24, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Yamaha Muro Sensor allows playing music by sensing the direction and speed of acceleration
Yamaha showcased a stick-like device, "Muro Sensor," that can be used to play music by sensing the direction and speed of acceleration. The Muro Sensor, in its about 15cm long chassis, is equipped with a triaxial acceleration sensor, a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless module developed by Nordic Semiconductor ASA of Norway and it looks like Nintendo's "Wii Stick" (Wii Remote). Up to 24 units of the Muro Sensor to one base unit at the same time and its transmission delay is less than 3ms. When a user swings the Yamaha Muro Sensor, the values of the acceleration are wirelessly transmitted to the base unit of the wireless system and, then, to the user's PC. If the PC is connected to a sound generator, preset sounds can be played based on those values.
- July 24, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Fashion model robot developed in Japan
A robot developed by the Robot Research Institute at the New Industry Research Organization,Japan imitates a pose taken by a woman. The 160-centimeter robot can assume human-like postures by simultaneous control of its 16 joints used for limbs, neck, waist and other body parts. The institute hopes the robot will be used for fashion and other promotional events after its metal frame is furnished with polyethylene sheets to give it a human-like look.
- July 22, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- RoboCup 2008 Suzhou
The 12th RoboCup International Competitions and Conferences, RoboCup-2008 Suzhou was held on July 14th - July 20th, 2008, Suzhou, China. Over 300 teams from 30 countries took part in the game this year.
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence.
A boy controls a robot in a robot dance contest during the Robo Cup 2008 in Suzhou.
Robots from Taiwan province perform a traditional Chinese program "mouse's wedding" in a robot dance contest during the Robo Cup 2008 in Suzhou.
A girl dances with the robot Haibao, the mascot of the 2010 Shanghai World- July 21, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Hitachi humanoid robot can distinguish voices even when three people are talking to it at the same time
Hitachi exhibited its second humanoid robot EMIEW2 at the recently concluded Hitachi uValue Convention 2008. Hitachi light weight humanoid robot EMIEW2 weighs 13kg and can move on wheels as well as two legs. Sensitive 14 microphones are mounted on the head of the humanoid for enhanced voice recognition capabilities. The robot can distinguish voices even when three people are speaking at the same time thanks to the voice recognition function. The voice recognition function is a combination of sound source separation and sound pattern recognition. In the sound source separation, sounds coming from directions other than the direction from which the voice of the person speaking to the robot comes from are ignored as noise. As a result, the robot can recognize voices spoken as far as 2m away. The robot is 80cm tall, a height for looking over desk tops.
- July 20, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- ChemBots to sneak into your body and biodegrade once the task is finished!
Squeezable chemical robots designed to mimic caterpillars may one day be used to sneak through tight spots before expanding to 10 times their size, then biodegrade once the task is finished. The chembots could get into a building through a crack, explore a cave or crevice and dismantle an explosive. Or they might climb ropes, wires or trees. A chembot could pack a smaller chembot into a situation and then release it for even more minute explorations. Researchers at Tufts University have received a 3.3 million U.S. dollar contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build the soft automatons. Tufts neurobiologist Barry Trimmer studies the nervous systems of caterpillars, which grow 10,000-fold in mass after hatching from the larval stage. He studies how they move so flexibly without joints and control movement so precisely with a simple brain.
- July 2, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Korean Develop micro-mini structures by pouring liquids containing self-assembling micro-mini components into them
A team of Korean researchers has successfully made a micro-mini computer keyboard with almost 70 100-㎛ components by pouring liquids onto boards. The team led by electrical engineering professor Kwon Sung-hoon of Seoul National University said Sunday that they made a super-mini Eiffel Tower, Greek shrine, and computer keyboard by cutting grooves into boards and pouring liquids containing self-assembling micro-mini components into them. These micro-mini structures are about a couple hundred micrometers (㎛) in size -- and one micrometer is a millionth of a meter.
- June 16, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Robot POMI can express happiness, sadness, and joy!
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea has developed a robot with four human senses such as seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling as interactive modalities. Named POMI (Penguin rObot for Multimodal Interaction), the robot can move the eyebrow, eye lid, eye ball and lips. It also uses various colors and formats of LED lights to show face expressions. As the robot has soft arms, its arm gestures are pretty natural and safe to humans. Robot POMI has two kinds of built-in scent sprays to express happiness, sadness, and joy. It also has a heartbeat device which makes people feel like the robot’s heart really beats up when they put the hands on the left chest of the robot. It also can talk to people, short answers in most cases, through a built-in speaker.
- June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
- Shenyang first Chinese city to employ a robot receptionist
The human-shaped robot developed by Siasun will soon have a job at the administrative examination and approval service center in Shenyang, the capital of the northeastern Liaoning Province, providing investors with help to get their business-related documents. The intelligent Chinese robot will nod head, wave hand, say hi, and communicate with visitors in Chinese. Measuring 1.6 meters high and weighing 50 kg, the robot's main equipment includes six sets of sonar, one microphone, two LED lights, two driving wheels and a directive wheel. These key parts enable him to walk freely in designated areas, bypass hurdles automatically, receive remote control signals and speak with humans. The Li-ion battery allows the Robot to walk and work for about 10 consecutive hours after two to three hours of charging. The LCD on robot’s chest allows visitors to touch buttons on his screen and learn concerned procedures.
- June 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic
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