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Halfway between robot and avatar
Telerobot physician consulting with nurse………….credit: InTouch Technologies, Inc. What’s halfway between an autonomous robot and an avatar? You’ve probably seen avatars in the movies (James Cameron’s Avatar being the prime example). No doubt you’ve also seen various kinds of (semi) autonomous robots that move about under their own power and have a kind of intelligence, [...]
Posted in Impact: Robotics Also tagged AI, Avatar, drone, remote robotics, robotics, ROV, teleconference, telepresence, telerobot, UAV Leave a comment
Ranger the robot pushes perambulation record
Ranger walking into the record books…………….credit: Cornell University Ranger looks rather spindly, uses four thin legs, which act like three legs moving similar to someone on crutches; but it is a champion (at least for now). On July 6 Ranger set the long-distance record for untethered walking – 14.3 miles (23 kilometers) on a single [...]
Posted in News: Robotics Also tagged Big Dog, Boston Dynamics, Cornell, distance record, locomotion, Ranger, robotic engineering, walking Leave a comment
Sci-Fi movie review: Surrogates
[Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow. Writers Michael Ferris, John D. Brancato (two others). Released 2009, now in DVD and Blu-Ray. As customary for SciTechStory, this review contains many spoilers.] We get it: Surrogates (robots) bad; being human good. In fact, I’d wager most people more than get it before the opening credits are over. The [...]
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New Product: A telecommuting telepresence robot named QB
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 [...]
Posted in News: Robotics Also tagged Android, Anybot, Avatar, mobile, robocommuter, telecommuting, telepresence, Wi-Fi Leave a comment
Nanotech spiders: On track with molecular robotics
You have to love it when the lead scientists on a project say: “You could imagine the spider carrying a drug and bonding to a two-dimensional surface like a cell membrane, finding the receptors and, depending on the local environment,” adds Yan, “triggering the activation of this drug.” Such applications, while intriguing, are decades or [...]
Posted in News: Nanotechnology Also tagged enzymatic DNA, fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology, nanomedicine, nanorobotics, nanotechnology, origami DNA, robotics, spider Leave a comment
Petimo: A cuddly social networking toy for kids
Petimo and its navigation menus. Credit: Mixed Reality Lab It’s kind of round. It’s kind of furry. It’s for kids about 6 to 10 years old. It just won a first prize at the 2010 Innovation Circus in Milan, Italy. It’s called Petimo and it’s a social networking computer interface that doesn’t look or work [...]
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Robonaut2 – Flexible, stronger, human compatible
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, [...]
Roxxxy: Sex robots 1.0 (or is it 0.001?)
You knew plastic sex dolls couldn’t last in the onslaught of technological progress. After all, they’re nothing but windbags. Now sex robots, that’s in the ‘something else’ category. Of course this massive innovation shows up (where else) in Las Vegas during the time of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Actually it showed up at the [...]
Evolutionary robotics: Learning to walk in stages