ASIMO conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to raise awareness for music education. Contribute to The Power of Dreams Music Education Fund at www.detroitsymphony.com and click on Education or go to http://tinyurl.com/3ro3cj For more on ASIMO visit asimo.honda.com.
The Spykee Cell is another robot to climb you own Meccano. It is controlled remotely via Bluetooth (from a mobile phone). The robot can move and take pictures and send them to mobile phone. The module loudspeaker actually a hands-free device, if you want to use the robot to hear and speak… The manual says [...]
Spykee introduced Spykee Vox and Spykee Miss, each apparently aimed at a specific gender. Each robot has an iPod dock, but it seems that is also compatible with other MP3 players. Vox and Miss are designed to obey the commands in English, French and Spanish (a language at a time) and can use its infrared [...]
Wowee unveiled its new WiFi webcam robot, which can be remotely using any device with Internet access: mobile phone, PC or video game console. Users can see what happens at home or at work through the camera integrated Rovio that stream video and audio transmitted by the robot. Including the intelligent navigation and positioning system [...]
It seems that these days, technology has progressed to the point where it is quite normal to have tons of products spies. The Spy Robot Snooper is a little discreet manner. It can be put in position by being controlled remotely, capturing and transmitting sound in a radius of 45 meters. I suppose you can [...]
You know these street artists who look to have more talent than those in the local art gallery? Well, now you can have your own portrait done by a robot, instead of relying on human talent, thanks to the efforts of the researcher Sylvain Calinon. The developed robot can recognize a face in his field [...]
robot HOAP-3 The Honda robot ASIMO has a new friend recently – the humanoid robot HOAP-3 Fujitsu Automation. Small in size with 60cm and weighing 8.8kg, it is equipped with image recognition and various sensors. With a Pentium M processor running at 1.1GHz under RT-Linux, HOAP-3 would be a target of choice for developers [...]
The group diversified Japanese electronics Hitachi introduced Wednesday a new robot designed to assist employees in offices and to replace the hostesses to make a green tea to visitors, through its faculties of communication and travel.Called “Emiew 2″, this humanoid robot red wheels, 80 inches tall, is the descendant of Emiew, a first version designed [...]
Kit to assemble themselves or humanoid capable of recognizing faces, a new generation of robots happens, more and more domesticated. They walk, talk, recognize faces and become more sociable. Gone is the dream of science fiction: the robots have become reality and begin to integrate our daily lives. In factories, they perform technical tasks and [...]
In the USA, most federal agencies support programs in robotics. For example, with NASA missions and Sojourner Martiennes, NSF whose various programmes display thematic Robea, mainly in the division CISE ($ 190M budget in 2001), or DARPA. Most American universities have teams and laboratories in the field (particularly those referenced on this site), like the [...]
Under the cries of 60 000 rampaging soccer fans, the Brazilian goalkeeper Dida fix its target, conducts a long clearance and, as expected, Ronaldhino seizes the ball. In a performance that is both art, magic and the perfection of sporting gesture, the athlete starts in a ballet dribbles which stuns the defensive opponent. From the [...]
This paper presents a control law for the tracking of a cyclic reference trajectory by an under actuated biped robot. The robot studied is a five-link planar robot. The degree of under actuation is one during the single support phase. The control law is defined in such a way that only the geometric evolution of [...]