All the stories tagged with: robotics
Tour Guide Robot to boost tourist arrivals?
12/13/2011, Would the presence of Tour Guide Robots at crucial touristy areas actually signal the death of a real life tourist guide? Perhaps, but perhaps not. After all, a robot is still cold and calculative, and no matter how “warm” you [...]
A robot that controls humans
12/13/2011, No, the title does not have any typo on it – where the future might see a robot that is full well capable of controlling your limbs, instead of having you control its limbs. This idea might take some getting [...]
Body sharing robot lets you transcend space
12/07/2011, Ever looked at your schedule and thought to yourself, wondering just how the heck are you going to manage being in two different places at the same time? Well, you can now do so in a sense, thanks to a [...]
Flying robots construct 20-foot tower in France
12/04/2011, Now here is something that might just pique your interest – a bunch of flying robots actually got down and dirty, constructing a 20-foot tower in France in the process. There is no need to employ anyone who suffers from [...]
Quadcopter robots is a work in progress
12/02/2011, Robots are constantly being improved upon by scientists in laboratories, and they certainly do have a major role to play on the battlefield. Take for instance, the Predator drone that has been dispatching off high value targets for the longest [...]
Guide robot at the Bucheon City Hall
12/01/2011, Robots seem to be in the limelight a whole lot more often these days than in the previous decade, simply because they are able to do a whole lot more than their predecessors with the advancement that we’ve seen in [...]
Dream Robo scales ladders in a jiffy
12/01/2011, Robots are starting to get more and more agile these days, and the Japanese as well as the Koreans are spearheading this particular robotic movement with aplomb over the past few years. Dream Robo from Osaka-based industrial equipment maker Muscle [...]
Gumby-like robot moves around in style
11/29/2011, We would have thought of robots to be hard and unyielding, but here is an interesting “soft” robot that was inspired by squid and starfish – allowing it to crawl, undulate, and even squeeze under obstacles. A team over at [...]
Nextage humanoid robot could be your colleague in the future
11/28/2011, Nextage, a humanoid robot that was developed by Kawada Industries, was specially designed so that it can function with the rest of humanity without looking out of place. The start of a protocol droid, or someone – should I say [...]
M3-synchy robot
11/27/2011, Early last year, the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) lifted the veil from the M3-synchy, where it was constructed via the robotics company known as Vstone. Specially designed to be tiny and portable, it delivers image and voice recognition functionality. [...]
Ant-Roach robot takes the inflatable route
11/22/2011, I would not have figured out that robots in the near future might actually be of the Marshmallow Man variety, that is, it is inflatable. Well, this pneubot known as Ant-Roach is a 15-foot long walking robot, where it was [...]
Robots’ turn to control humans now?
11/18/2011, Sounds odd, doesn’t it, to have a robot control a human – the one who created it. Well, that might very well be the case in the future for specific cases when there is no human assistant around, leaving a [...]
Titanoboa is the stuff of future horror stories
11/18/2011, I am quite sure that you have seen your fair share of cheesy and corny horror flicks which involved giant man-eating snakes, or how about the snakefest known as Snakes on a Plane? Well, none of these will be able [...]
