Robots News

BEIJING, March 15 -- In China's previous space missions, astronauts like Yang Liwei emerged as heroes, but in the country's third lunar exploration, a robot has unexpectedly grabbed the nation's heart.

Cubestormer 3, designed by David Gilday and Mike Dobson, recorded a time of 3.253 seconds at Birmingham's NEC.

Technology has afforded plenty of opportunities to eliminate some of the human-error that's inevitable in various fields -- from medicine to manufacturing.

The robot moves underwater autonomously and can accurately replicate a high-speed maneuver called the C-turn, which its living fish counterparts use to evade prey.

Kalamazoo Gazette photographers looked back over work from the past week to select some of their favorite photos to write about.

An elephant's trunk is one of the marvels of the animal kingdom. With up to 40,000 muscles, the trunk is powerful enough to lift a 600-pound log and delicate enough to crack a peanut shell without damaging the nut.

March 2013: Not content in ruling the information superhighway, Google is moving closer to dominating real roads by, yesterday, winning a patent that advances its Google Car self-drive capabilities.

Finally realizing that C-3PO, R2-D2 and Johnny-5 have needs too, a German software company worked with artist Giles Walker to create Lexy and Tess two female robot strippers that gyrate and grind on a pole.

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But the company also has an excellent Scooba series of robots that wash your floor with detergent and water.

Listen to this three-piece with your eyes closed and it could be any group of musicians plucking a guitar, twinkling on an electric keyboard, or beating a drum.

STUDENTS from five schools in and around Malvern and Worcester spent the day at QinetiQ in a bid to inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and technologists.

ROBOTS have created quite a bit of noise in the technology industry this past week, from a Lego autobot that aims to solve a Rubik's Cube in record time, to computer powered ping pong playing machines and even "soft" robotic fish that replicate the movements of real sea life .

"What is incredible about these accusations is they are not coming from Senator Ron 'Privacy is important' Wyden or Senator Rand 'Don't kill me with a flying robot' Paul," Stewart said.

James Zink of Rochester programs a robot to perform the most efficient procedure of spot welding using a weld application for the Robotics 2400 course at Oakland Community College in Auburn Hills on Wednesday March 5, 2014.

ROBOTS are no longer stuff of science fiction. They're here and they want our jobs.

Speaking at Washington, D.C., economic think tank The American Enterprise Institute on Thursday , Gates said than within 20 years, a lot of jobs will go away, replaced by software automation .

New Rochelle, NY, March 13, 2014-A soft-bodied, self-contained robotic fish with a flexible spine that allows it to mimic the swimming motion of a real fish also has the built-in agility to perform escape maneuvers.

If you ever wanted proof that the more robotics can mimic nature, the more realistic , and effective they'll be, look no further than the remarkable soft-tissue robot fish from MIT graduate student Andrew Marchese, which can apparently turn and swim away as well as a real fish.

SCHA is the first Jewish Day School to purchase the NAO humanoid robot. Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy, located in Orange, CT is integrating the NAO robots into its technology program, designed to promote the use of technology as a learning tool and facilitate the development of academic skills.