Tag Archives: robotics

eye3: The Robotic Copter That You Can Afford

UPDATE: Kickstarter has cancelled funding for eye3 due to delayed deliveries, skepticism that the drone will actually work and suspicion [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A True War Veteran, The AR100B Drone Chopper Has Logged More Than 1,200 Missions In Afghanistan

At less than a kilogram total weight, a max payload of 200 grams, and just one meter in diameter the [...]

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Tased From Above! New Robot Copter To Begin Patrolling Our Skies (video)

Forget the idea that weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are only for military operations in wars fought in far off [...]

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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, [...]

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Five Balls at a Time – This Juggling Robot Can Handle It (video)

We all know robots and supercomputers are smart. They can beat us at chess, Jeopardy!, calculating pi to an ungodly [...]

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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 [...]

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Another Robotic Fighter Jet Takes Flight: Boeing’s Phantom Ray

Fighter jets that take off, fly, and land by themselves–with no pilot? Believe it or not, the US has created [...]

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Robots Perform Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Dance (video)

The King of Pop would have been proud. As a man who pushed the boundaries of technology himself, from his [...]

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This Humanoid Robot’s Comin’ At You Like A Spider Monkey! (video)

If you’re going to get past the Christiano Ronaldos of the world, you’re going to have to run fast. In [...]

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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 [...]

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Coming To A Shopping Mall Near You: Panhandling Robots

Robots can do so much these days. They can beat us at games, help us fight wars, perform operations, dance, [...]

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Microscopic Drug-Delivering Robot Operates In Eye

Robots have been trying to invade our bodies for years. Now they’ve found a way to get in our eyes [...]

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Robots Enter Crippled Japanese Reactor For First Time

The trend to put robots in harm’s way, instead of humans, continues. On April 17th a pair of robots entered [...]

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Robot To Throw Out First Pitch Today At Phillies Game

On May 29, 2010, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw a perfect game. It was only the twentieth time ever [...]

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Robots Take Over Hospital Pharmacy as Human Pill-Counting Talents Go To Waste (VIDEO)

A new pharmacy supplying medicine to the UCSF Medical Center is currently under the control of a handful of Swiss [...]

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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 [...]

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What’s The Secret Behind Diapers.com Success? A Kiva Robot Warehouse

Starting in July, Quidsi, Inc will try to dominate drugstore retailers with Soap.com, an online megastore that will sell 25,000 [...]

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Willow Garage Gives Away 10 Open Source Robots

Open source robotics received a huge boost in momentum last Friday. Willow Garage, one of the driving forces behind the [...]

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Dan Barry – The Future of Robotics (Singularity University Video)

There are people out there who’s list of accomplishments simply seem unbelievable. Dan Barry has a MD PhD and a [...]

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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 [...]

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You Don’t Want To Miss These Amazing Robot Pictures

Remember a few months back when Boston.com’s The Big Picture released an absolutely beautiful set of robot pictures from across [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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