Adaptable 'Baxter' robot could help businesses compete with cheap foreign labor. A new industrial robot designed to be adaptable, safe, and easy to program could take over a number of relatively unskilled tasks on production lines, helping businesses to compete with cheap human labor provided in other countries.
Dubbed Baxter, the robot is designed and produced by Rethink Robotics, a Boston-based company founded by former MIT professor Rodney Brooks — unlike conventional robots used in manufacturing, it can work side-by-side with humans, without the need for any sort of protective cage. Baxter features a screen with humanoid facial expressions According to an article in MIT's Technology Review, Baxter features a screen with humanoid facial expressions, allowing it to indicate to operators that it is busy, confused, or ready to move on to a new task.
Rethink Robotics: Meet Baxter (by. Arduino robot. Dial carefully! Meet Kuratas, the million dollar robot which weighs four tons, shoots when you smile and is controlled by iPhone. Robot unveiled in Japan today will go on sale for £900,000Kuratas can be controlled by motion sensor technology in the one-man cockpit or through any phone with a 3G connectionAs well as auto targeting your enemy it is easy for those looking for sweet vengeance - the robot's heavy artillery fires 6,000 bullet per minute when the pilot smiles By Sara Malm Published: 15:29 GMT, 29 July 2012 | Updated: 12:59 GMT, 31 July 2012 A Japanese electronics company has unveiled a 13ft super-robot which can be controlled by an iPhone.
Robodance. CAN Special: Quadrotors at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2012 by MLF / @marshmallowlf @saatchilondon. Now in its 22nd year, the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase hit Cannes again, unveiling another presentation of the new directorial talent.
Marshmallow Laser Feast (Robin McNicholas, Memo Akten and Barnaby Steel) were the creative and technical directors of the production which included a theatrical performance by 16 flying robots reflecting light beams on the stage. CAN got the all the details on how this mesmerising performance came into being. A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors. They're Real: Crazy Daredevil Robots That Fly, Build, And Make Their Own Decisions.
Robots and Avatars. “The exhibition tackles the overlap between the virtual and the real worlds.”
Wired. Happy Birthday David (NEW Prometheus Viral!) Ro-Bros WIN. Feral Robotic Dogs. Robots. Someone types a command into a laptop, and Actroid-DER jerks upright with a shudder and a wheeze.
Compressed air flows beneath silicone skin, triggering actuators that raise her arms and lift the corners of her mouth into a demure smile. She seems to compose herself, her eyes panning the room where she stands fixed to a platform, tubes and wires running down through her ankles. She blinks, then turns her face toward me. I can’t help but meet her—its—mechanical gaze. “Are you surprised that I’m a robot?” Her scripted observation has the unfortunate effect of calling my attention to the many ways she does not. While more advanced models of the Actroid make the rounds of technology exhibitions, this one has been shipped to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to acquire the semblance of a personality.
Corto - Blinky (2011) Robots at Work and Play - Alan Taylor - In Focus. Advancements in robotics are continually taking place in the fields of space exploration, health care, public safety, entertainment, defense, and more.
These machines -- some fully autonomous, some requiring human input -- extend our grasp, enhance our capabilities, and travel as our surrogates to places too dangerous for us to go. NASA currently has dozens of robotic missions underway, with satellites now in orbit around our moon and four planets -- and two more on the way to Ceres and Pluto. Gathered here are recent images of robots and those who work with them. [33 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's Robonaut R2A waves goodbye as fellow Robonaut R2B launches into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on February 24, 2011. Workers assemble a robotic King Kong creature in preparation for the show "King Kong: Live on Stage" at the Creature Theatre Company workshop in Melbourne, Australia.
An unmanned U.S. U.S. In this U.S. Robot Living. Robotland. Soft Robotics wins German Innovation Prize 2010. At an official award ceremony held on the evening of 1 December 2010, Germany’s President, Christian Wulff, presented Dr.
Peter Post and Markus Fischer of Festo and Andrzej Grzesiak of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) with the 250,000-euro “Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2010”.The Bionic Handling Assistant is a light, free-moving “third hand” system. Thanks to its structural compliance, direct contact between humans and machines humans and machine is now no longer a danger. The research team developed the Bionic Handling Assistant within the framework of Festo’s Bionic Learning Network. Its structure and function were inspired by the elephant’s trunk. The flexible assistance system allows humans and machines to work together safely and efficiently as a team for the first time. Types of robots. There are many ways how you could possibly define different types of robots.
As I have seen the possible divisions vary widely. The main reason of these differences is that different tutors often tend to have different views on what should be taught under "robotics". For example - some tutors that teach robotics usually focus mainly on industrial robotics, neglecting service robots completely. Groups.
By motion/structure.