Rather than offering a readymade robot like Nao that largely makes software the focus of user customization, cSpring is designed to be highly customizable (and open source) on both the hardware and software fronts.
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According to Brooks, in the short term the first places we will see this next generation of intelligent, collaborative and trainable robot like Baxter, is on production lines where robots will be used by factory floor workers to do the truly dull and repetitive jobs, freeing up those workers to do tasks that require more dexterity and judgment.
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Building a robot that can stand and walk on two legs like a human is challenging enough -- but what about a robot that swims like a human?
The robot, like other consumer machines on show, has been designed to be personable and human.
Because we have been influenced, going back to the 1950s, by our perception of what a robot looks like and how it behaves.
Bankers, as true of any profession, are not collective blobs with uniform interests or robot-like behaviors conforming to academic conjecture, but methinks most actively seek credit-worthy customers.
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In its smattering of South African English words, for instance, everyday terms like robot (traffic light) and braai (barbecue) have been excluded in favor of oddities like toenadering (a getting together of political parties).
LS3, a dog-like robot, trots behind a human over rough terrain, carrying up to 180kg of supplies.
Many Japanese seem to like robot versions of living creatures precisely because they are different from the real thing.
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And, despite Superbot's impressive morphing abilities, Shen said DARPA's vision of a liquid-like robot was still a long way beyond existing technology.
Taylor, professor of Computer Sciences at Johns Hopkins University have tried another tack by making a tiny snake-like robot go where endoscopes have gone before and focused on making a fully articulated tip.
While the last crop of robot dogs looked like squared-off, stylized versions of toy terriers, this new bunch resembles such Sanrio characters as Hello Kitty and Chococat, with big, circular heads reminiscent of cartoon characters.
"Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver, the television character from the 1980s who solved complex problems and escaped dangerous situations by using everyday objects and materials he found at hand, " said project leader Prof Mike Stilman.
NASA's slice of the pie includes a plan that would improve detection of near-Earth asteroids, send a solar-powered robot ship (like the NASA concept above) to capture one of the space rocks and tow it back to a stable orbit near Earth, where researchers could study it up close.
After so many years of performing like a robot, by the age of 25, a lot of kids who grew up like me have no idea how to connect with other people.
First, his own style: on television he rarely smiles, and recites his lines like a robot.
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The site has tons of tips, odds tables and hints for not attracting unwanted attention from the pit bosses (order a drink, don't play like a robot, talk to the dealer).
Detroit is a city of contrasts, but no one has captured the good and bad as vividly as an unidentified hobbyist armed with a cheap helicopter-like flying robot and a YouTube account.
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In a phrase first coined by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, get too human and they fall into the "Uncanny Valley", that point on a graph that plots acceptance against how human like a robot is where acceptance falls through the floor.
Honda's robot, Asimo, looks like a 4-foot-tall astronaut and can help the disabled at home.
Engineers in the US say they have invented a hydrogen-powered robot that moves through water like a jellyfish.
That's why scientists from the University of Virginia are developing the Mantabot, a robot that looks and swims like a ray.
Curiosity may be a robot, but it acts like a scientist: always skeptical, running experimental controls, double and triple checking every result.
Across a cluttered table at Lego's base in Billund an original Mindstorms robot faces the new crew like a last dinosaur eyeing frisky new species.
Turns out the couple needed all these skills to build their home, a 2, 600-square-foot, three-bedroom ultramodern residence that looks a little like a giant robot.
He walked through the Zone and marked the points of maximum radiation they exploited him in the fullest sense of the term, like he was a robot.
While Hasbro has some popular products, like the eerie Furby petlike robot dolls, its biggest categories are doing poorly.
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