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By: A First Look At The Slimmer And Smarter Asimo Humanoid Robot (video) | Singularity Hub

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:50:39 +0000

[...] one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots. With its astronaut-like appearance, Asimo successfully navigated a constantly-changing “paperscape” terrain without any operator intervention. It can walk up [...]

By: The Newest Walking Robot is Iranian! (Video) | Singularity Hub

The Newest Walking Robot is Iranian! (Video) | Singularity Hub — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:13:41 +0000

[...] with its capabilities. Surina 2 may look like Honda’s Asimo but it doesn’t have the Japanese bot’s natural walking style, nor its language skills. In fact, I see robots every week that out perform Surina. What makes the [...]

By: GM and NASA Create Robonaut and Mounds of Hype | Singularity Hub

GM and NASA Create Robonaut and Mounds of Hype | Singularity Hub — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:42:58 +0000

[...] most difficult tasks for a humanoid robot is walking correctly. Asimo has spent years working to navigate and step through difficult terrain on its own. Robonaut conveniently avoids these problems by focusing on wheeled or stationary bases. [...]

By: A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009 | Singularity Hub

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009 | Singularity Hub — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:15:51 +0000

[...] humanoid robotics genre, and 2009 was not exception. At Carnegie Mellon, researchers were able to teach ASIMO to dynamically navigate around cut out shapes that represented real-world barriers. Able to dodge spinning blades, [...]

By: Gentler Robot Hands Pick Up Objects With Care (Video) | Singularity Hub

Gentler Robot Hands Pick Up Objects With Care (Video) | Singularity Hub — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:08:20 +0000

[...] Prof. Aaron Dollar is also working with Honda Research Institute to get the hand integrated with Asimo. Check out the teleoperated robot delicately grasping objects in the video after the [...]

By: Honda’s ASIMO Turns 9, Celebrates With Cardboard Cake | Singularity Hub

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:43:00 +0000

[...] has certainly been a favorite here at the Hub over the years. We’ve seen the bot walk through difficult terrain, endure an early brain control system, and even fall down the stairs. The next nine years are [...]

By: From Petman to Dexter, Bipedal Humanoid Robots Come of Age | Singularity Hub

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:12:00 +0000

[...] lets not forget some of the other impressive efforts that are also out there right now. The ASIMO, HRP-4C, and Toyota humanoid robots, each offer their own solid performance in the [...]

By: Carl Shulman

Carl Shulman — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:44:10 +0000

“By assigning an infinite cost to human-robot collisions, you could insure that robots do everything in their power to avoid running into people.”
This would prevent the robot from moving at all so long as collisions are more likely when moving (e.g. raising the hourly probability of a collision by one trillionth of a trillionth). We trade off risks of death for other values every time we drive a car or cross a street, and robots that take actions in the world will also need to make such tradeoffs.

By: Carl Shulman

Carl Shulman — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:44:00 +0000

By: Titan Robot Wows, Frightens…But Its Fake | Singularity Hub

Titan Robot Wows, Frightens…But Its Fake | Singularity Hub — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:50:43 +0000

[...] although Titan may not be the real deal himself, certainly there is a growing legion of robots from ASIMO to the HRP-4C that truly are the real deal. Sooner or later those movie scenes of robots wreaking [...]

By: Honda’s Answer to the Segway: Motorized Unicycle U3X | Singularity Hub

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:00:17 +0000

[...] of what makes U3-X possible is the work done on Honda’s ground breaking ASIMO robot. The balance control that keeps the unicycle upright and allows users to steer through leaning was [...]

By: MIT Helps Little Dog Navigate Rough Terrain | Singularity Hub

MIT Helps Little Dog Navigate Rough Terrain | Singularity Hub — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:25:45 +0000

[...] a robot make its way on a rough path isn’t new. We’ve seen how Asimo navigated terrain using an overheard camera and symbolic shapes. CSAIL’s robotic gardeners also operated under [...]

By: Robot Overlords take over Japan with Pictures « The Lonely Geek

Robot Overlords take over Japan with Pictures « The Lonely Geek — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:19:01 +0000

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By: Could Battery Advances Mean a Better Robot? | Innovation Toronto

Could Battery Advances Mean a Better Robot? | Innovation Toronto — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:32:01 +0000

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at — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:15:36 +0000

There is similar a work by a collaboration of many universities, which aims to teach robots human like navigation abilities. See article at Robotic Magazine here: http://www.roboticmagazine.com/research/021-robot-motion-algorithm-mimics-human-navigation.html