Humanoid robot learns how to run
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Honda's new, improved Asimo robot is able to run, interact with people and shake his hips.
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According to New Scientist.com, Scientists at the University of West England have designed an autonomous robot which generates its own energy by eating flies.
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Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese nursing home, can converse, sing, express emotions and give trivia quizzes to seniors to help with their mental agility. Yet the pale-green gizmo has spent much of the past two years languishing in a corner alone.
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Robots that recognize your voice or remember what you look like. Robots that play musical instruments. Robots that shake your hand and know up to 10,000 words -- in Japanese.
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Hondaâs Asimo humanoid robot may be headed for a lifetime of domestic chores: engineers at the company have taught the robot how to serve tea to guests and give a nice little bow when itâs done.
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Soon you'll be able to run your kid's toy train, flip on the tube or channel surf without lifting a finger. A new Japanese technology developed by Hitachi lets you control electronic devices translates brain activity into electrical signals.
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A sleek desktop debuts, along with VR-like games that help you exercise--and a robot that doesn't.
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A new Japanese robot twists and rolls to iPod tunes in an intricate dance based on complex mathematics, a technology developers said will one day enable robots to move about spontaneously instead of following preprogrammed motions.
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Scientists in Japan have succeeded in controlling a humanoid robot with signals picked up in the U.S. from a monkey's brain and transmitted across the Internet, they said Tuesday.
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It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot.
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It may eat flies and stink to high heaven, but if this robot works, it will be an important step towards making robots fully autonomous.
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A new "resilient robot" can change how it walks in response to damage&#8212;perhaps in the same way newborns learn to walk, scientists say.
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Roboticists are using the lessons of 1930s human physiology to build the world's fastest walking robot.
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It&#039;s one of the greatest challenges for robotics engineers: Building a machine that actually walks like one of us.
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The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels. The 14-inch-long machine from ZMP Inc. blares music as it rolls and twists from room to room. The robot, which looks like a ball popping out of an egg, has a speaker system from Kenwood Corp.
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Our three-part series on cheap, plastic robots concludes with the Robotikits Jungle Robot, a stump of voice-activated plastic and metal that resembles an encephalitic R2-D2. Commentary by Lore SjÃ¶berg.
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ...The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid &quot;model&quot; of what they and the world around them are like.