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New Product: A telecommuting telepresence robot named QB

News: Robotics    May 20, 2010
The telepresence robot, ”QB”. . Credit: Anybots, Inc. As a field of study and product development, it is in the nature of robotics, as often as not, to want to emulate the human being. Why this should be so given that the erect and bipedal human being is already an engineering nightmare, speaks to our [...]
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Robonaut2 – Flexible, stronger, human compatible

News: Robotics    February 5, 2010
Androids, robots that look like and sometimes act like humans, are not (just) a figment of star treks in galaxies far far away. This one (below) is built by General Motors (U.S.) for NASA and is called, drolly, Robonaut2 or just R2. It’s been in the works for ten years. R2 is designed to be, [...]
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Augmented Reality really goes mobile

Impact: Virtual/Augmented Reality    January 18, 2010
If you define GPS locating as part of Augmented Reality (AR), and most do, then mobile devices went AR some time ago. So “Augmented Reality really goes mobile” might mean that AR on mobile devices is a natural hookup, and we can expect to see much more of it. Okay. That’s probably so true, but [...]
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