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Tag Archives: robot
Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)
Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged agile justin, ai, DLR, humanoid robot, robot, robotics, Robots, Rollin Justin
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Is 2012 The Year That Robot Applications Take Root?
In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged apps, myrobots, roboearth, robot, Robots, robotshop
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Robot: I Now Have Common Sense. Engineer: Great, Go Fetch Me a Sandwich!
Willow Garage’s gifted PR2 robot just got even smarter. Developers from the University of Tokyo and the Technical University of [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Video Central
Tagged ai, android, PR2, robot, robotics, Robots, Technical University of Munchen, university of tokyo, Willow Garage
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A Night Out with the Willow Garage Robots – New Info From the Press Dinner
When a robot asks you out on a date, say yes. Wednesday night, Willow Garage hosted a small press dinner [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Robots, Singularity
Tagged humanoid, PR2, robot, Willow Garage
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Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors With Medical Knowledge
The trainee was sequentially presented the details of a fictitious patient: there’s an eye problem; vision is blurred; the family, [...]
Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million “Library of the Future” (video)
You enter the 8,000-square foot elliptical Grand Reading Room of the Joe and Rika Mansueto library, admiring the arched dome [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged library of the future, Mansueto, robot, robotics, university of chicago
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Best Toy On The Block: Nao Humanoid Robot Plays Card Games With Kids
The Nao Developer Program is making the robot more human-like every day. Just last month Nao robot developer Carl Clement [...]
Robotic Warfare Draws Closer as Robot Jet Fighter Passes Two More Flight Tests
At first glance the X-47B might look like the portly little brother of the B2 Stealth Bomber, but among unmanned [...]
MIT’s Robot Lamp with Augmented Reality (video)
MIT has created its own version of a magic lamp. Nathan Linder of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged AR, augmented reality, Fluid Interfaces Group, LuminAR, LuminAR Bulb, LuminAR Lamp, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Nathan Linder, Pattie Maes, robot
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Tony Robbins, Sergey Brin Become Robots – The Telepresence Revolution
This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey [...]
Robot Pharmacists Are Picking Your Medications—Literally
Dispensing medicine is about to get more efficient. New Jersey’s Holy Name Hospital is using robot pharmacists to package, store [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged automation, davinci robot, for health technologies inc, general electric, hospital, human error, intellifill, ipad, medication, pharmacist, pillpick, robot, swisslog
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New Age of Exploration: Robots Swarm into Land, Sea, and Space
Has the age of human explorers come to an end? There are several projects underway that are sending robots where [...]
New York Times Has Sweet Modular Robot Media
Modular robotics have taken over the New York Times. All the news fit to print now includes a wonderfully conceived [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged CK bot, modular, New York Times, robot, robotics, University of Pennsylvania, UPENN
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Is Surrogates Movie Getting Closer to Reality?
You know you live in a crazy age when blockbuster movies look like they might come true. Next month marks [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Robots, Singularity
Tagged anybots, AVATAR, braingate, bruce willis, cyberdyne, Hanson Robotics, haptics, robert vendetti, robot, robotics, surrogates, technophile, technophobe, telepresence, transcendent man
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Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr
Props to the guys over at smart-machines for digging up an awesome video (see below) of the Toyota humanoid robot [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Genetics, Robots
Tagged asimo, humanoid, humanoid robot, robot, running robot, toyota
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The FlexPicker: Industrial Robot Built for Speed – Video
Over the last few months, there has been very little showing on industrial robots here at Singularity Hub. That is [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Robots
Tagged assembly line, automation, fast robot, flexpicker, industrial robot, robot
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Robot Hummingbird Ready for Spy Missions – Video
We’ve seen countless spy movies where the fearless protagonist is being tracked by video cameras shaped like owls or robotic [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged hummingbird, nano uav, nanobot, robot, robotic flight, robotics, small robot, uav
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RoboCup Takes Place in Graz, Austria: Robots Play Soccer and Search for Survivors
Earlier on Singularity Hub, we covered the RoboGames. That was all well and good, with smashing and melee and some [...]
RoboGames 2009 Summary, Highlights, Pictures and Video
The RoboGames were an astounding success. Legions of robo-lovers flocked to the games in San Francisco to watch the carnage [...]
The Pocket Sized Robotic Scout: a Soldier’s New Best Friend
There are robots to do everything nowadays. They move pallets, act as a butler and even scoop kitty poo, so [...]
RiSE: The Robotic Wall Crawler
The robot invasion is nowhere close to over. Singularity Hub has reported on a multitude of autonomous machines (the autonomous [...]
The Autonomous Forklift
Here at Singularity Hub, we are interested in the different types of robots capable of doing a normal person’s job. [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged autonomous forklift, csail, employment, forklift, robot, worker robot
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MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners
MIT continues to spin out awesome ideas and technology. Recently, Singularity Hub highlighted the creation of a new human interface. [...]
Did You See That Woman…Wait…She’s A Robot!
Check out the HRP-4C robot, one of the first humanoid robots to boldly sidestep the typical transformer look, instead posing [...]
Wired For War: The Rise of Robotic Armies
P.W. Singer just launched his latest book titled Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. [...]