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Think You Can Dance? Beat These Bots!

Altmünster :: Austria | 11 days ago

Posted by Majdy

So you think you got the moves to groove? Well, think again because these funny six legged robots will beat you on the dance floor for sure. One obvious reason why they happen to be surprisingly hilarious dancers is because these hexapod bots have six...

Data Robotics raises $15 million for Drobo backup storage business

San Jose :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago

Dean Takahashi September 2nd, 2008 Data Robotics has raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding for its consumer-focused Drobo backup storage business. The Santa Clara, Calif., company makes “data robots,” or external backup storage units that make...

Robots will account for 30% of U.S. Military in 12 Years

Roanoke :: VA :: USA | 3 months ago

Posted by openborder

In 12 years the U.S. Military will be taken over by robots. The initial goal is to have a 30% robotic force. Human involvement cannot be fully replaced yet since there will always be humans in the control process. According to Bill Smart a researcher...

Calgary students show off robot for police, fire, military personnel

Calgary :: Canada | 4 months ago

And a team of students from Calgary's DeVry Institute may have actually developed one. Looking for all the world like the little robot that saves the world in the Disney movie Wall-E, Nova 5 was introduced at a news conference in Calgary on Tuesday. Institute...

Grieving father creates bomb-defusing robot

Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago

Brian Hart can’t forget the call he got from his soldier son in Iraq a week before he was killed by a gunshot. “He asked me to help him: ‘Get us body armour and vehicular armour’,” Hart recalled. “He thought he’d be killed on the road in an unarmoured...

Japan companies unite to bring robots to homes (AFP)

Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago

Four Japanese companies joined together Wednesday in a bid to create a mainstream market for robots and to stay a step ahead of rising competition from South Korea. The companies -- Tmsuk, ZMP, VStone, Business Design Laboratory Co (BDL) -- said they...

Robots moved by brain power

Moscow :: Russia | 5 months ago

A team of researchers in the Moscow region have come up with a 21st-century robot that makes remote-control technology look positively ancient - because their machine is controlled by the power of thought. It's tiny and temperamental but this small machine...

Japan Creates Human/Robot Hybrid

Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 5 months ago

Posted by simren

The Japanese government has put pressure on companies to make robotics a primary focus of development, resulting in the Honda Motor Company’s demonstration late last year of the Asimo Bots, child-sized robots that can work coordinating with...

Monkeys Use Brains to Control Robot Limbs

Chicago :: IL :: USA | 5 months ago

Until now, brain-machine interfaces have been used to control cursor movements on a computer screen. A U.S. scientist and his colleagues have figured out how to make a monkey guide a robot arm the same way it does its natural limbs, through brain signals.

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