A year ago, IBM has received funds to develop software that can simulate the human brain. This is quite a natural step in the evolution of such studies. Scientists have tried to simulate the brain of rats and other animals. The main problem was not even the fact that there is no complete clarity in [...]

Humanoid robot HRP-4C this year participated in various activities and in various roles. Often, in the role of fashion models. This is understandable because the form of a robot, gait, gestures humanoid robot like a human. The robot, developed by the Japanese National Institute of Science and Technology, recognizes it, says a well-developed facial expressions.

Thomas and Janet, the first two robots who dare to kiss. The kiss between robots was in December last year during the presentation of scenes from the thriller “The Phantom of the Opera” at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

In the Laboratory of Information Technologies of the University of Al-Ain (United Arab Emirates) has appeared the world’s first robot that spoke Arabic. More than a year a group of researchers, including university students, worked on the creation of this unique in its kind of mechanism. The appearance of the robot given it is in [...]

At least six fields of research today advanced robotics structure: one that relates the robot with its environment, the behavioral, cognitive, or developmental epigenetics, the evolutionary and biorrobótica. It’s a big field of interdisciplinary study that relies on the mechanical, electrical, electronics and informatics, as well as physical science, anatomy, psychology, biology, zoology and ethology, [...]

Robots at the nanoscale can already do some basic manipulation. But it remained difficult to control to enable them to perform more complex actions such as handling of nanoelectronic components or cells. To overcome this problem, a team of University of Toronto (Canada) announced having developed a pair of robotic grippers can move independently in [...]

RYOBOT is my Rug-Warrior-based robot. It stands about 8 inches high, and is about 6 inches in diameter. It has two-motor differential drive, a 360 degree bump skirt, and the full complement of sensors from the Rug Warrior design. The logic is powered by 4 AA cells and the drive is powered by six rechargeable [...]

Robot arm commanded by a microcomputer. The processor used is a onechip processor from Intel (80c196KB). 12 MHz, 32K RAM, 16K ROM.I use an IBM PC compatible computer to send command sequences via the serial port (LPT1) to the 80c196KB.The 80c196KB transformes the command sequences to pulses which make the robot to move. The PC [...]

Aberystwyth, Wales – A robot named Adam who can develop theories and test them almost without help from humans, became the first machine to a new scientific discovery. His experiences have provided additional expert knowledge about the genetic mechanisms of yeast. In the magazine Science, Professor Ross King and his colleagues the laboratory of the [...]

Fuzzy logic has been used now for many years in the control algorithms of robots. Fuzzy logic includes not only expert systems, reviewed and visited, but also the direct use of fuzzy logic in programs simply by adding rules and fuzzy variables in the main program. We tend to the latter type of use in [...]

Researchers from the University of Alcala and the Complutense University in Madrid have invented a new method for Predicting the wind speed of wind farm aerogenerators … using knowledge generated from systems that simulate the workings of animals’ nervous systems. A combination of weather forecasting models and artificial neural networks, the New Method Enables researchers [...]

It is the “Holy Grail” of all robotics: build a machine that can communicate, move, act, adapt to new situations as would a man. A device where all the specialties of robotics would be met – visual recognition, speech synthesis, walking, handling, etc.. – And having our appearance. Only problem: the dream of engineer not [...]