This contest will accelerate an already expanding market of robots able to do human-like tasks.
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In 2006, the company successfully placed a platform 1.5 km in the air, and were able to send robots up and down from the platform on tethers.
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" What's more, while the research hasn't even begun yet, one of the professors involved sees it as nothing short of a milestone, saying that "the outcome of the research will define the scientific and technological requirements for the design of humanoid robots able to develop complex behavioural, thinking and communication skills through individual and social learning.
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He said lawn mower robots would be able to run on the clippings they cut.
Robots will be able to guard your house while you're away, babysit your kids, or keep you company when you're alone.
Had I known that robots would be able to do that in the near future, I might have changed my mind!
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Hopefully sooner rather than later, all these domesticated, master-serving robots will be able to handle even the most mundane of tasks for us without botching our reputations, like holding down the 9-5 for us while we tee it up.
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Full shares his hypothesis with engineers who test the biological principles on their robots, they are often able to offer biologists new insights into the ways in which animals move, resulting in advancements not only for the field of robotics but for biology, too.
Because the Transformer robots turn into cars, Bay was also able to get freebies from gm--as he had earlier, when the auto company contributed flood-damaged cars for Bad Boys.
Sony says it will be able to handle orders for as many as 60, 000 Aibo robots a month.
When else would we be able to share such delights as an astronaut triathlete, soft, color-changing robots and a recent response to a thirty-year-old alien broadcast?
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