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Tag Archives: robot
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. [...]
Monkey’s Thoughts Control Robot Halfway Across the World
The New York Times today reports on an awesome experiment in which thoughts were extracted from a monkey in the [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Robots
Tagged bci, brain-computer interface, monkey, neuron, robot
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A Review of the Best Robots of 2008
Robot innovation continued its relentless advances during 2008. In this post we would like to showcase some of our favorite [...]
Real Life Transformer Robot
Just found this awesome short video of a transformer robot from Japan. There are several transformer robot videos out there, [...]
Robots Controlled by Rat Brains
New Scientist released an awesome article describing how researchers are using rat brains to control a robot. Approximately 300,000 neurons [...]
Posted in AI, Robots
Tagged electrodes, mea, multi electrode array, neurons, rat brains, robot
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Robotic Surgery Taking the Industry by Storm
Intuitive Surgical introduced its Da Vinci robotic surgical system to the world in 1999, converting surgeons into “super surgeons” by [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged da vinci, intuitive surgical, robot, robotics, surgery
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Nao Robot – The Next Generation in Commercial Robots
Just found a nice video posted below of a group of Nao robots doing a synchronized dance. The Nao represents [...]
ORlive – online repository of webcasts and videos of live surgeries
I just stumbled upon an incredible site called OR-live.com where you can witness live video of the latest surgical procedures. [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged longevity, medicine, robot, robotics, surgery
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Add air hockey to the list of things that computers can do better than humans
The Short: The EE Times reports that a computer has been built that can beat the world’s best humans at [...]