Japan robot prize goes to mechanical arm
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A mechanical arm that can grab 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt won Japan's Robot of the Year award Thursday, defeating a dozen flashier finalists, including a walking humanoid and a transparent torso for simulating surgery.
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Features 'cantilevered crotch joint', potential for bot-crack in future Japanese developers have produced a robot intended for manual labouring, which they reckon will be ready to sell to the construction industry by 2010.â¦
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Japan's growing elderly population from will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile.
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Also plans droids to 'work on street corners' The Japanese robot industry is streets ahead of the competition when it comes to designing droids for peaceful uses (for war-bots, of course, the discerning purchaser shops in America). That said, Japanese robots have so far struggled to find a real, erm, killer application.â¦
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Japanese company Tomy will sell what it says is the world's smallest humanoid robot.
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By MATTI HUUHTANEN HELSINKI, Finland - The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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The Japanese develop a toddler robot. Here's a humorous look at the next generation mechanical child.
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HELSINKI, Finland -- The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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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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Helsinki, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--University of California Prof. Shuji Nakamura on Friday received one million euros in award for the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for his development of new, revolutionary sources of light, including blue light-emitting diodes.
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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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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for police and the Pentagon.
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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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MIT fares well in DARPA's famous robotic-car race.
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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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Japanese scientists have built an electronic eye they say could help blind people get around safely.
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The latest tiny flying robot that could help in search and rescue or surveillance has been unveiled in Japan.