In the game, the Indian-born billionaire is featured as a robot that has to be defeated.
Trower, who's working on Microsoft's own software platform for robotic systems, says this kind of PC bot would serve as a multiapplication communication and work device, but it would have microphones and touch-screens for interacting with humans and the same adaptable and moving form factor as a small robot.
To work around these problems, Dr Hover came up with the idea of using the data-point cloud not to spot mines, but as a guide to help the robot take a closer look at the hull.
Behind a tinted glass panel 18-carat gold powder, laid down by a robot arm, sparkles as a laser fuses the metal into complex three-dimensional shapes, layer by layer.
The Lascaux Cave was found, as most caves are, by kids and a dog, and as a rule the pooch named Robot, in this case does not make it back out.
We may look at a robot as being incredibly adultlike and smart: Machines such as IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue and "Jeopardy!"
The current demonstration implements a tethered solution as the robot's source of power, pumps, gasses and liquids, but future developments may allow for a self-contained system.
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Botiful, a "social telepresence robot, " serves as a roving platform for your Android smartphone.
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So maybe one day soon, having a household robot bring you dinner as you're watching a 3D film on your connected-TV will become as commonplace as having a mobile phone.
On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google, but for the physical world.
On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), but for the physical world.
We are currently exploring ways for Henry to use a PR2 robot as his surrogate.
The little robot serves as a combined assistant and guard dog.
So, as man seeks to create a robot in his own image, he will need to find something for the outside to cover the Intel inside.
With this in mind Dr Hover and Mr Englot, along with a team of colleagues, used a robot known as the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV), which was developed at MIT and has since been commercialised by a company called Bluefin Robotics.
They lie in a small depression referred to as Yellowknife Bay, about half a kilometre from the robot's point of touchdown last year.
Daniel Sandberg is tweaking the remote control system of a 6-foot-tall robot as it wanders through the halls, broadcasting what it sees to a laptop.
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They call it adaptive manufacturing - think of Baxter as a ready-to-wear robot for any manufacturing environment.
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The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.
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For more ambiguous types of waste, such as a piece of plywood with nails driven through it, the robot uses a spectrometer to recognise objects based on the unique patterns of light they reflect.
As some background, NASA put a wheeled robot on Mars for the first time in July 1997.
As the music plays the robot will grow a head, arms, and legs and start dancing.
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Their conclusions will perhaps give pause to those who see the ultimate robot as something which physically resembles a human being.
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Six other teachers as well as engineers from the community help students build a robot each spring, which they enter in competitions with other schools.
Computer problems have kept the Endeavour at the station longer than expected as astronauts try to carry out operations of a critical robot arm.
"Any mechanical motion, such as the movement of arms or the fingers of a robot, could be translated to control signals, " said Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Likewise, a web crawling robot which follows links such as Google is not effective.
So far, Dr Laschi's robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.
The album's lone voice comes from a disembodied robot, introduced briefly on the second track, "Vio vorum sma, " more as a narrator than a singer. (Think Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" from OK Computer).
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