Robotics

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 possible however, due to possible distractions in person’s thoughts. Honda […] Read More

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 an irregular and unpredictable pattern. The researchers performed the experiment […] Read More

Developing of the brain is highly interconnected with our senses. To simulate the natural brain development, the AI research needs to include sensory input and output constantly feeding information back and forth to the controlling mechanism. This is where the backbone of our intelligence lies. The article in New Scientist in the link below, is about such an experiment, performed at Robert Gordon University in […] Read More

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, certain tasks. The recently emerging machines called “exoskeletons” for example, […] Read More

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 limited to just that. It is envisioned that it will […] Read More

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 would emerge naturally. Yet we still have to see a […] Read More

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 of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft RDS includes a simple […] Read More

A new domestic helper robot is under development by University of Tokyo of Japan, and Toyota Motor Corp. The robot weighs about 130 lbs and able to recognize clothes and different objects, also in 3D view by its two cameras looking at an angle resembling human eyesight. The robot can sweep floors, move object from one place to another and can even move furniture to […] Read More

The robot that has been developed by University of Pennsylvania, USA, is capable of reassembling itself after being scattered into pieces.The units first detect each other’s location by their light sensors and signals, and then decide how to reassemble themselves according to the given objective, which is to assemble into different forms and shapes to make various types of robots for a variety of different […] Read More

A number of courses that are being taught at the Stanford University School of Engineering are being made available online for free to everyone interested. The program is called “Stanford Engineering everywhere portal and currently offers a total of ten courses. The Robotics courses currently being offered are: Introduction to Robotics Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Further courses are planned depending on the success of […] Read More