The big advantage of space robots is that they need neither food nor drink and can work in inhospitable conditions. More importantly, although expensive to design and produce, their loss is always preferable to an astronaut. In the edition of November 2004 ASTRA robots designed in the Space Research Laboratory of the Technical Center of [...]

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 [...]

The Flame robot was already able to move through a process similar to that of a human being. A team of University of the Basque country now wants to give the droids ability to move independently and adapt to their environment. His robot Tartalo, has a navigation system allowing it to move freely in confined [...]

The robots are now able to imitate the strengths and weaknesses of an individual in a game Researchers at the University Carlos III of Madrid have programmed behavioral clones. Human action of a specific player is first recorded through a video game, Robosoccer. “The system observes the stimuli that the individual receives from the screen, [...]

The EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) will definitely not stop to talk to her, in robotics. A team of Swiss researchers consisting of robotics Dario Floreano, Sara Mitri, Stéphane Magnenat and Laurent Keller of the biologist, has developed a simulation composed of virtual robots that can understand what factors determine how communication arises in [...]

If robots have largely proven their ability to replace humans in the industrial field, where they perform tasks without flinching the most menial or repetitive more rigorously, we reserve the robotics still nice surprises in the field of business. Around the globe, teams of researchers working to demonstrate that both a priori overcome, the machine [...]

According to the magazine Rue89, the U.S. military in Afghanistan currently testing a robot called BigDog. This machine imposing physical and noise disturbing, is composed of several sensors that allow it to move anywhere, anytime, without fear of tripping over bumps or dips. Created by the company Boston Dynamics, the robot was initially designed to [...]

European researchers are developing software that will allow robots to know if a person is sad, happy or angry. Growing Feelix the project is to assemble several simple robots can detect different parameters, such as facial expressions, voice, and proximity to determine emotional state.

Maisonnier Bruno, President of Aldebaran Robotics, is convinced and says to anyone who will listen that robots will play a crucial role in our environment, both professional and private, in the near future. They should be able to read your emails, organize your appointments, but also to recite their lessons to your children, or even [...]

For many would-Maestro has from time to suspect in the case of Honda’s Asimo robot Hitech certainty: This is the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conduct – without really knowing what he does. The appearance of the humanoid robot, whose acronym for “Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility”, before the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will help, a program for [...]

Honda Human robots’ Asimo ‘has learned a new trick: He can be equipped with a sophisticated hearing the exclamations of three people at a time. This is possible thanks to an order of eight microphones and a new Japanese scientists developed software. Initially Asimo it simply acts as an arbitrator playing rock paper scissors. The [...]