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SAR-400 Robot is Russia’s Answer to NASA’s Robonaut 2
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NASA and General Motors teamed up a while back to create a humanoid robot called Robonaut 2 or R2. R2 is now on the International Space Station where it will be used to conduct repairs and maintenance outside the space station. Russia has how unveiled a new robot called SAR-400,… |
April 24th, 2012
DARPA Robot Climbs Stairs Like a Boss, Another Does More Pushups Than I Can
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Hot on the heels of the announcement of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, it’s looking more and more like Boston Dynamics will be a shoe-in for the competition with its latest bi-pedal robots. A recently released video clip shows DARPA and Boston Dynamics bipedal robots climbing stairs, walking on a treadmill and… |
April 12th, 2012
Preliminary Details of New DARPA Grand Challenge for Humanoid Robots Surface
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Robots can be awesome (and more than a little creepy at times). DARPA is about to start up a new Grand Challenge that involves robots that can walk among other things. DARPA’s Dr. Gill Pratt recently revealed that the new challenge will involve builders competing to create a humanoid robot… |
April 6th, 2012
Honda’s New ASIMO Robot Shows Off
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Honda has been busy, and not on new versions of the Civic or Accord. Today, the company has unveiled their new ASIMO robot, improving upon the 10 year-old design. Now ASIMO can kick balls, (hopefully not human male’s) hop on a single leg and it can even predict the direction… |
November 8th, 2011
Robot Learns to Clean Whiteboard, Still Won’t Help If You Used a Sharpie
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After teaching a robot to flip pancakes and shoot arrows, Dr. Petar Kormushev decided to instruct his robot in a new skill that could come in handy at your next meeting – cleaning whiteboards.… |
February 14th, 2011
AFFETTO Robot Head Will Creep You Out
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I know that this isn’t really supposed to have anything to do with Halloween or scaring people, but what the heck guys, this robot baby head is really disturbing, especially when the guy starts moving the head around and the baby comes alive.… |
February 8th, 2011
Kinect Controls Humanoid Robot: Giant Robotic Army Not Far Away
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Another day, another Kinect hack. This particular hack is quite cool, mapping the body movements of a human onto the joints of a humanoid robot.… |
January 15th, 2011
Reem-H2 Humanoid ‘Bot Aims to Scare the Life Out of You
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I don’t know why, but this scary robot isn’t from Japan, no siree, it’s from Spain. It’s safe to say that if these humanoid robots with faces like these take over the world, we’ll all be in trouble. Or at least psychologically scarred. This ghost-faced killer (ok, we don’t know… |
November 17th, 2010
Honda’S Asimo Robot Turns Ten
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I remember the first time I saw the ASMIO robot from Honda. I wondered why a car company was building a robot to begin with. It has now been a decade since the first ASIMO robot hit the stage and Honda is celebrating the occasion.… |
November 1st, 2010
Hrp-4c Singing Robot: Robo-Tune
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Just like humans, singing is a (synthesized) talent among robots. Some have it, and some don’t. AIST’s HRP-4C, a relative of the HRP-4 humanoid robot, was born to sing like a human being. An in-house developed software called VocalListener is responsible for synthesizing a natural singing voice. The effect is… |
October 15th, 2010
