Posts Tagged Robots
Robotics Soft-Tissue Injury Study
Video part of the report “Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics,” by Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schaffer, and Gerd Hirzinger at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR – German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany.
ABB Robotics – 10 good reasons to invest in robots
Robots have been proven to deliver a host of benefits in a wide variety of applications. Manufacturers introducing robots to their production processes have typically seen a significant transformation in their productivity and efficiency. The International Federation of Robotics recently undertook a survey that identified the top 10 reasons that manufacturers invest in robots
Aldebaran Robot using Microsoft Robotics Studio. Robo Development Conf. Nov. 18, 2008 -2
tiltul.com Aldebaran Robot using Microsoft Robotics Studio. Robo Development Conference Santa Clara CA November 18, 2008 -2 TilTul www.tiltul.com – Automate the Web. View Playlist www.youtube.com
Evolution Robotics Mint Cleaning Robot at CES 2010
PM’s Erik Sofge tested out Evolution Robotics Mint Cleaning Robot at CES 2010. Go to www.popularmechanics.com to read his whole review.
ABB Robotics – The FlexPendant HMI
Jim Kosmala of ABB Robotics USA talks you through what to look for when selecting a robot teach pendant. He compares the ABB FlexPendant ,with its patented joystick and touch screen, to the more traditional full keypad based teach pendants.
Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines “whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind,” and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical [...]
Sociable Robots
Lecture about Sociable Robots at MIT Museum Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they “open up a new world of questions.” But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea [...]
iCub – The Robot Child
The iCub is a wide-eyed robot that wants to learn like a baby. European researchers are working with child psychologists and neuroscientists to build a robot that can absorb new information in the same way as a human infant.
Robot Bartender
Mr. Asashi, the Robot Barman makes his debut at a London department store.
Big Dog Robot
An impressive video of Big Dog, a robot that can walk on ice and snow, climbs on rough terrain and carry heavy loads. Big Dog, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is being developed by Boston Dynamics with the goal of creating robots that have rough-terrain mobility. Scary noise.
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