Archive for the ‘Robotics’ Category

Improving Robots Emotionally

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Scientists at the University of Hertforshire are leading the project to create robot which can develop emotions during interaction with humans. Nao, a robot, which can now develop emotions such as shrug shoulders when sad or raise eyebrows when surprised and more. But the big question is whether emotions help create any additional laws to the existing three fundamental laws of robotics? This project is run by the Adaptive Systems Research Group at University of  Hertfordshire.

The Adaptive Systems Research Group in Hertfordshire is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, students, and friends of the University of Hertfordshire who have a connection to research in Adaptive Systems and related areas. The group was founded and is co-organized by Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn and Prof. Chrystopher Nehaniv. Other core faculty members of the group include Dr. Lola Cañamero, Dr. Daniel Polani and Dr. Farshid Amirabdollahian.


[Guardian]

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Home Robotics: Beer Robots

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Willow Garage developed what we can call as a “Beer Robot“: a robot that will not only grab a beer and bring it to you, but will also recognize your face and your preferred beer. The Robot can fetch the beer as well as open it and make it ready for consumption. Let us see the robot in action now:

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Stanford’s Junior does parallel park with the right vigour!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Stanford Racing Team’s autonomous car can throw itself into reverse, jam the accelerator to the floor, and slam on the brakes at 25 miles per hour, sliding sideways into a parking space. This feature would sure be a bang for a buck, if  car manufacturers get it approved by DOT in coming years.

[More at Popular Science]

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AR Drone can be flown with an iPhone

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Now we know iPhone can be used to fly drones. Yes, AR Drone has consumer plan. The AR Drone has four propellers, two cameras, and can be flown with an iPhone.

Watch now:

[IEEE Blog]

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