Remember when playing with Transformers took something called "imagination?" No more! Soon Transformers — err, I mean Brave Robots — will do all the work themselves.
Unlike most butlers, HERB is equipped with a spinning laser that allows it to create three-dimensional models of the world around it. Also, it knows how to work a microwave.
Robots are natural candidates for helping people with disabilities, mainly because they have to simulate senses that most of us take for granted.
In the future, we’ll start to see robots with nobody at the controls. Who’s to blame when they destroy our property or physically harm us?
Keeping tabs on ships in any section of the sea is no easy task, let alone busy coastal areas with tons of commercial traffic. That’s why the U.S. Navy has decided to enlist the help of robots to root out pirates.
Check out concert footage of Drexel University’s own Fab Four, made up of autonomous HUBO robots.
The only surprise about Amazon’s move to acquire Kiva Systems for $775 million is that it didn’t come sooner. Kiva is a robotics company focused on making warehouses more efficient. Amazon spent $4.6 billion on warehouses last year. The expression “no brainer” seems fitting.
You wouldn’t think a rattlesnake would be afraid of a squirrel and you’d be right — that is, unless the squirrel in question is wagging its tail. That’s what a joint research project between the University of California-Davis and San Diego State University found with the help of their friend Robosquirrel.
Two weeks ago, while the astronauts in the International Space Station were sound asleep, Mathieu Caron was carefully putting Dextre into place from the safety of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) control center in St. Hubert, Quebec. It was preparing for the Robotic Refueling Mission, a test to see if robots could one day refuel satellites in space.
At the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, one figure stood out among the crowd gathered to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery last year.
Naoki Maru — who has won Japan’s ROBO-ONE competition multiple times with his robot King Kizer — has created a Real Steel-type machine with the help of a Kinect-style Asus Xtion Pro Live sensor.
