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Use This Snazzy Multitouch Interface to regulate Your Robot Army [Robots]
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Mark Micire of UMass Lowell is a forward thinking dude. Straight away, most of us don't even have one robot, let alone a swarm. But someday, we'll be tripping over 'em! Micire's multitouch interface may help keep them in line. Micire's interface is built atop Microsoft Surface, and marks among the many ...
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Chair + Wii Fit Balance Board + Wheeled Robot = One Happy Baby [Robots]
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Some children suffer from disabilities which forestall them from crawling around and exploring the area, but due to projects like this one they could have another solution to move around: Baby-sized motorized chairs. This particular robotic chair contains a Wii Fit Balance Board which has a toddler seat strapped to ...
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Prototype Robot Swarm Could Clean Up Oil Spill in a Month [Oil]
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This solar-powered fellow is a component of a robot group called Seaswarm. He and his buddies are cheap, autonomous, and communicate via GPS and Wi-Fi. And 5,000 of them could theoretically clean up the Gulf oil spill in a month. The clever MIT ...
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Halo Fans Can Build a gentle Sculpture By Controlling This Robot [Robots]
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Microsoft is launching an interactive website to get gamers even more occupied with Halo: Reach. Users might actually help build a Halo light sculpture by controlling a Kuka Robot Arm (that's the item lurking inside the shadows) to devise light points. Kuka Robot Arms are usually used to collect cars but hence, it'll be used ...
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Power line inspecting robot isn’t terrified of getting juiced
Inspecting power lines isn't the safest job we will imagine having, so we're pretty happy to determine that robots -- which don't have an identical... feelings we do about getting injured -- is usually hacked to do the job. Hydro-Quebec's LineScout can get past most power line obstacles by partially detaching itself from the line ...
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Who Wouldn’t Buy Ice Cream From A Cute Japanese Robot? [Robots]
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As if ice cream doesn't practically sell itself inside the summers anyway, a Japanese theme park decided to hire a cute robot named Yaskawa-kun to hawk the delicious treat. I suspect you'll understand their choice once you see a video of him at work. Yes, he really is so cute that he'll probably sell twice ...
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Robot sells ice cream, we like him for it
Now, two of our favorite things on this planet in order that happen to be ice cream and robots. So combining the two could only end in awesome things, right? Well, that's Yaskawa-kun is: a robot that vends ice cream. And yes, it's super fantastic. Currently working a Tokyo Summerland, Yaskawa-kun has a touchscreen ...
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Flobi robot head realistic enough to convey emotions, not realistic enough to provide children nightmares (hopefully)
We've seen our fair proportion of robots meant to convey emotions, and they somehow never fail to creep us out on some level. Not less than Flobi, the handiwork of engineers at Bielefeld University in Germany, eschews " realism" for cartoon cuteness. But don't let it fool you, it is a complicated device: concerning ...
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Prototype of robot that develops emotions on interacting with humans officially complete
The first prototype of a robot which can develop emotions as it interacts with a human caregiver has been completed. A team across Europe was led by Dr. Lola Cañamero of the University of Herefordshire within the UK to develop the bot, which differs in numerous significant ways from folks that came before it. These ...
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Donut Logic Provides a fanciful Peek Into Robot Life [Robot Art]
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From August 14th though September 1st, that you can catch San Francisco artist Eric Joyner's imaginative art show " Donut Logic" in Culver City, CA. It's stuffed with robotry, colorful cupcakes, and a heaping helping of donuts. His pieces " reveal the secret life of robots" , including their penchant for tattoos, their desires, ...
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Robot arm takes engineers for a virtual reality Formula 1 ride (video)
As it turns out, industrial-strength robot arms are good for more than amusing hijinks and the occasional assembly line -- a team of researchers at Germany\'s Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have turned a KUKA KR 500 into the last word Formula 1 simulator ride. Outfitting the six-axis, half-ton lifter with a force-feedback steering ...
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ROCR Bot Swings Up Walls Like a Monkey [Robot]
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The list of places we will be able to be safe from robot attack continues to shrink, as the ROCR robot, courtesy of the University of Utah, can now efficiently scale walls. The diminutive bot can climb over six inches per second. The ROCR is far from the first robot to tug off a wall climb, ...
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Walkman Outsold iPod in Japan During August [Apple]It's party time for Sony, as the planets of consumerism aligned to earn it a unprecedented win over Apple's iPod music-playing range. It's the first time Walkman has outsold Apple's music players inside the region since iPod arrived in 2001. Sony had to make a number of sacrifices with the intention to win back musical market share, though, aggressively under-cutting the cost of its rival.![A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]](http://nexgadget.com/images/A-DualBooting-Tablet-Running-Android-Sounds-Barmy-Viewsonic-Tablets_tuTo-_0.jpg)
A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 's specs. I don't think anyone shall be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even supposing Windows 7 's also there too. I can't consider many the explanation why someone would need a dual-booting tablet, but obviously dual-booting laptops (running something like