The Market for Personal Robots Will Reach $5.26 Billion by 2015, According to NextGen Research The prevailing wisdom is that the personal robotics market resembles the personal computer market of the mid-1970s; many small companies with greater expertise in R&D than in marketing are trying to create a product for which others will develop applications. […]
The ACE robot created by technical university of Munich recently demonstrated that it could find its own way through a city just by asking directions from humans.The robot did not have any GPS or map of the city installed and relied solely on the input it got from the city residents. It had to ask […]
The robot called CB2, which has been developed by Japanese scientist, is used to study machine learning. The robot is developing social skills by examining humans. Robotics engineers, brain scientists, psychologists and experts from other fields are working on the project. The robot has been operational since two years. 51 muscles driven by air pressure, […]
Tokyo, Japan: During a demonstration performed at Honda Tokyo headquarters, Japanese scientists showed that the company’s famous ASIMO robot can be controlled by thought patterns alone.The person sitting still and wearing a helmet which measures it’s the electrical currents at person’s scalp as well as the cerebral blood flow. A live demonstration is still not […]
Just like the computer revolution started in 1970s, today we see the preliminary applications of robots that are soon likely to invade our offices and homes. Even though the robots like we know form movies such as The Terminator or I-Robot may still seem to be far away, the trend is going toward more and […]
The research done in Georgia Tech University explored the physics of movement of robots walking on sandy surfaces. The general conclusion reached was that the robots walking on sandy surfaces should move their legs slower than usual. Sandy surfaces present extra challenges because the characteristic of the surface can alternate between solid and liquid in […]
The device developed at George Mason University, which you can view by visiting the link below, helps patients with certain difficulties to be able to perform repetitive physical movements for therapy.This logic could soon be applied to a much more variety of physical tasks, which may enable to teach healthy people without any movement problems, […]
Exoskeletons allow the wearers carry much heavier loads than a normal human capacity allow while performing a wide range of movements at the same time. You have probably seenthe news about military versions being developed before. Now it seems, Japanese are developing these suits for everyday use. The principal mechanism to make these suits work […]
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 […]