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When designing Makey the Robot for MAKE, Volume 19 , I ran into a problem that plagues all kinds of designers -- how to continually redesign a body to accommodate changes in whatever's crammed inside it? Once I'd sketched out Makey's configuration and modeled the major parts in Autodesk Inventor 3D modeling software, I really got into some of ...

The donated robot will be demonstrated at the seminar in a presentation on robotic vision capabilities.

We are constantly inundated with new information, and to manage it effectively it's sometimes necessary to forget old, irrelevant memories.

Owners of robots who have felt frustrated by their humanoid companions' inability to say marhaban, ma salama, shukran and mabrook may soon be able to end their suffering.

What happens when good robots go - bad'? Study says home bots could be hacked by some with not-good intentions Robots are "little computers and in some cases, little mobile computers with webcams," says Tamara Denning, lead author of a study about potential robot dangers when control of the bots falls into the wrong hands.

Roboticists are letting robots learn all of the secret ways that human beings share information with each other.

Toyota has developed a Delivery Robot, especial to aid people with limited mobility, but that doesna t mean you and I cannot avail its benefits.

Jerome GroopA man writes in The New Yorker about Maja MatariA and the quest to creA ate robots that can help peoA ple through therA apy.

Who he is: CTO of Heartland Robotics Inc., which aims to do for manual labor with robotics what the PC did for office work.

Recent years have seen the development of a significant personal robot market beyond just toys, although even in entertainment robots , there has been substantial improvement over the wind-up robots of the past.

DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript, Robopocalypse , it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production at the studio, and Jason Kaufman, Executive Editor and Vice President, at Doubleday.

A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls.

Dancing isna t a new trait for modern robots, yet mimicking all those grooves that the human body can manage isna t all that easy for the mechanical-human wannabes.

MIT researchers are collaborating with Volkswagen and Audi to develop an AI-based "driving buddy" that could help motorists avoid traffic jams or remind them to fill an empty gas tank.

Scientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society.

Gadgetism.org > What's Your Favorite Google Wave Gadget?>> SUSE Linux Enterprise ... [ SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas ] The crux of Google Wave is the extensions/apps or what Google Wave is calling "Gadgets" . Embeds and robots will have their place, but most likely not for the common user.

First made popular in Japanese manga and animes, "Astro Boy" finally gets the big screen treatment.

Adept Technology, Inc. , a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, today announced its Adept Quattro Robot has broken the 300 cycle per minute barrier.

It has suction cups instead of hands, two sets of tank-tracks instead of feet, and is strong enough to carry an adult up a steep flight of stairs.

Activelink chief engineer Go Shirogauchi wearing the robotic exoskeleton inspired by Aliens / Activelink Construction robot inspired by Aliens Research being funded by Panasonic More: Technology news and reviews JAPANESE engineers have taken us one step closer to the robot revolution by developing a machine inspired by the movie Aliens .