The biggest cost in agriculture is the manual labor today. Recently a research project has started by the Carnegie Mellon University under the funding of Department of Agriculture totaling up to $10 million, in order to develop robotic vehicles that are able to pick the fruits, but the abilities of the machine will not be […]
London, November 2008: I Want One of Those announces a brand new robot, created by leading British designers and never before seen in the UK. The humanoid robot,which comes with over 100 pre-programmed motions and sounds, is staggeringly lifelike in its movements yet is simpler to operate than any other robot on the market. Its […]
It is now a reality that after decades of computer history, we are nowhere near to a real artificial intelligence. This is not like the computer programmers of the past were probably envisioning our age. The common thought a couple decades ago was, as soon as the computers have enough processing capability, the Artificial Intelligence […]
PITTSBURGH: Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model thatprovides insight into the function of the brain’s visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive contours and surfaces, and understand what they see in the world around them. A type of visual neuron known as simple cells can detect […]
A new robot is in development for sweeping snow at the roofs of flat buildings. The robot is remote controlled and weighs 220 pounds, not more heavier than a human labor required to do the same job.During warmer months, the robot can be equipped with mover blades or sweeping attachments. As the visual recognition software […]
Paris, France, September 9st, 2008. The French start-up Gostai (www.gostai.com) and Aldebaran Robotics (www.aldebaran-robotics.com) announce that the Nao robot will be equipped with the latest version of Gostai Urbi universal software platform to offer an extra programming interface. NAO is the current most evolved humanoid robot available on the market and is already shipping to […]
Software development platform allows academics, hobbyists and commercial vendors to simplify the creation of robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.SANTA CLARA, Calif. Nov. 17, 2008, At the RoboDevelopment Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (Microsoft RDS), the newest version […]
Autonomous driving technology has been improving in the recent years. For instance, the competition held every year in the US organized by DARPA has hostedmore and more improved competing autonomous vehicles every subsequent year. While the vehicles were not even able to complete a few miles by themselves just a few years ago, last year, […]
Equipped with 3D laser scanners and long range planning algorithms the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is able to detect objects as far as 150m away.The vehicle can make its own map of the environment and detect small objects such as thin electrical wires. The helicopter can fly as low as only 5-10 meters above ground […]
The new robot that fills prescriptions makes huge savings possible while reducing errors at the same time and the filling operations faster.The hospital which has started to use the robot, expects yearly cost savings of $550,000. In medicine, especially for surgeries, the robots are starting to find wider applications every day, with their more precise […]