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Tag Archives: robotics
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots, Video Central
Tagged automation, pharmaceutical robotics, robotics, Robots
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged automated warehouse, Diapers.com, kiva, online retail, Quidsi, robotics, Soap.com, warehouse
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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 [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged CK bot, modular, New York Times, robot, robotics, University of Pennsylvania, UPENN
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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 [...]
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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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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Willow Garage: The Personal Robot Will Be Open Source
Want to build a robot? Join the club. Want to improve the way we build robots? Join Willow Garage. This [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged Milestone, open CV, open source ROS, Orocos, personal robot, player, PR2, robotics, Robots, TREX
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Interactive Motion Technologies: Physical Therapy Robotics
Strokes suck. The mass destruction of a large number of the brain’s neurons robs the body of even the most [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged rehabilitation, robotics, Robots, therapy
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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 [...]
RoboGames Land at San Francisco This Weekend
San Francisco locals, this is your lucky weekend. Well, as long as you’re sufficiently interested in robotics, it is. The [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged battlebots, robogames, robot battle, robotics, Robots
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Swarm Robotics: The Swarm Is Coming
Swarm robots are in vogue now. Yeah, it was cool when one robot did something neat, like Asimo or the [...]
The Future of Sex: Androids, VR, and the Orgasm Button
Forget the Turing test. Imagine when a machine can not only convince us of their intelligence, but attract us with [...]
KIVA Robots Continue to Conquer Warehouses
Blue-collar robots don’t really get the press they deserve. These dedicated, well designed, and efficient workers provide unparalleled improvements in [...]
Tweenbots – Depending on the Kindness of Strangers
Would you help a lost robot? Just picture a tiny, cardboard skinned automaton making its way down the streets of [...]
Robots Take To The Stairs – This Is Just The Beginning
Robots can climb stairs, and they are doing it everywhere you look. “No big deal” you say, but it really [...]
16 Amazing Robot Videos
Robot innovation continued its relentless advances during 2008. In this post we would like to showcase some of our favorite [...]
FIRST Robotics 2009 Competition Kickoff
Over the weekend the 18th annual FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) was officially launched. This competition challenges and inspires high school [...]
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 [...]