Tag: robot
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With RomoCart, Turn Your Room Into An Augumented Reality Video Game
What if your room was transformed into a real race track? RomoCart proposes to convert your iPhone into a small robot on wheels, to challenge your roommates in a game that is reminiscent of Mario Kart. Using projectors you can dynamically generate the race course, special items and weapons to fire on enemies in case of evil…
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Greek Scientists Design Octopus Inspired Robot That Moves Fast Under Water
Rather than reinventing the wheel, robotic engineers prefer to learn from the way the animals move. Greek engineers have developed an octopus robot that is able to move like a real marine animal. We tell you more. The Greek research institute FORTH is behind the development of this octopus robot. In a recent video, a new version of…
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Amazing Stage Performance Of Illusionist Marco With EDI Robot
The famous techno-illusionist Marco Tempest has a new friend: EDI, a “multifunctional robot designed to work closely with humans.” In this video, Marco makes a plea, on the stage, for a closer cooperation between humans and robots. The duo even performs a magic trick to support the claim by the illusionist! This time the famous Swiss illusionist…
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Ethical Robots That Can Make Decisions And Save Other Robots
Robotics is a highly innovative field that is progressing at a breakneck speed. Researchers have now developed a robot with the most cherished attribute of kindness. The result of the experiments is simply impressive. We explain to you everything about this fascinating innovation. Roboticist Alan Winfield works at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. With his team, he has developed a program…
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Desire: A Short Film Showing A Robot Learning New Skills To Remain Competitive
This short animated film highlights how the life of a worker robot is turned upside down when it is faced with more efficient and competitive robot. We present you this mini-movie that shows how the robot learns to use new techniques to have an edge over its competitor droids. This short and super cool animated movie…
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Colour Chaser: A Robot That Creates A Melody From Your Drawing
Making music has never been so much fun! Thanks to a robot designed by a Japanese designer, you only have to make to a nice drawing and Colour Chaser robot changes the color lines into music. We tell you more about this amazing musical innovation! This is Mudam, the Museum of Modern Art, in Luxembourg. You can test the…
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Toyota Robots Assist Paralyzed Patients In The Rehabilitation Of Their Legs
Toyota shows us the results of its research in the field of medical robotics! The company has developed robots that can effectively support the paralyzed and injured people in their rehabilitation. We explain everything about this fabulous innovation. Toyota became interested in medical robotics during the last few years. Today, it has launched its two machines: Walk…
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Dexterous Hand: An Ultrasensitive New Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch
Researchers have developed a revolutionary artificial hand! This robotic hand is capable of analyzing the shape of an object to decide the position and strength to seize it. An innovation that can take the robotics to next technological level. This robotic hand named as Dexterous Hand, has been designed by a team of researchers based in London. It has been…
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A French Artist Gives New Life To Industrial Parts As Robots
Robots have always fascinated children and adults. A French artist pays tribute to the robots in the most beautiful way in making beautiful robotic sculptures from recycled industrial parts. Long live the robots! Brauer is a French designer who for the last twenty years has been designing album covers for many French and international artists. His artistic…
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Google Predicts That In 2029 Robots Will Be Equal To Humans
Ray Kurzweil, the Director of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Google, gives us his vision about robotics in 2029. According to him, at that time the robots will be able to interact with humans just like humans. Perhaps a sobering prediction… Ray Kurzweil is an important figure in the world of robotics and artificial intelligence. His opinion…
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Jimmy: Intel’s Open Source 3D Printable Robot
Intel wants to promote the democratization of robotics by providing an open source platform that allows anyone to print a robot using a 3D printer. The non-printable electronics and mechanics will be marketed as a separate kit. Ultimately, Intel hopes that fans can make their programmable robot for less than $1,000. As part of a program called 21st…
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A DIY Mechanical Robotic Arm That Can Draw You Favourite Drawings
Engineers have developed a very unique robot that turns out to be much more talented in drawing as compared to most of us. Indeed, it is a robot whose drawing skills will make most of us Jealous. The TRS Drawbot is a drawing robot that can be created at home. It works? It has motorized joints controlled by an electrical…
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Boomer: A Cute Robot Dinosaur That Follows You And Obeys Your Gestures (Video)
This toy will definitely be a source of delight for many children. For the lovers of technology, Boomer is a very cute robot dinosaur that can interact with you in many ways. A real mechanical pet that you can adopt. Boomer is a robot developed by Spin Master, already well known for its product Zoomer. It looks like a small tyrannosaurus rex and…
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Mini Robots Controlled By Magnetic Field Will Revolutionize Manufacturing
Robotics is a very broad field that has come a long way in its development. By controlling the tiny robots using magnetic fields, it is now possible to make very precise high-speed operations and at a much smaller cost. We make you discover this very promising innovation. Technology of magnetic robots exists since the last few years, but it has…
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Saffir: A Firefighting Robot Designed By U.S. Navy Against Fires At Ship
A group of Researchers, commissioned by the U.S. Navy , have made a big step forward in the field of robotics. They have developed a fantastic robot prototype which is capable of integrating into a team of firefighters to help extinguish the fires on a ship. We tell you about the details of this promising concept.…