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Some, apparently, believe we may have a robot economy down the road where machines produce everything, but few humans can afford the output.
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They have a robot that competes in a two and a half minute game and then they start building with other materials, keeping the computer brick, the NXT Brick.
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The goal of this work is to allow people with locked in syndrome to be able to interact with the world via surrogate, but it also foretells a world where each of us might have a robot avatar to do our bidding.
So it would be nice to have a component that could change shape almost like liquid... but to make a robot have a different texture would obviously be a new dimension of robotics.
Engineers have created a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body.
To speed rescue efforts, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot that would eliminate some of the unknowns of mine rescue operations and arm first responders with the most valuable tool: information.
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The robot includes everything a serious robot aficionado has got to have, including a full suite of sensors, capable robot arms, and plenty of on-board computing power.
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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.
Previous attempts to create such a robot have used gears and air-powered or pneumatic pumps.
Abrams and his production company Bad Robot have a proven track record of blockbuster movies that feature complex action, heartfelt drama, iconic heroes and fantastic production values with such credits as Star Trek, Super 8, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, and this year's Star Trek Into Darkness.
Right now, the researchers only have a small, 15-chip array on a robot arm.
They also plan on building the capability to have two arms on a single robot.
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Engineers in the US say they have invented a hydrogen-powered robot that moves through water like a jellyfish.
Which is too bad, because I would have no qualms about letting a robot take over garbage sorting duties.
They don't have a second thought about the fact that they're using a robot to perform a task.
The portfolio can include videos of a robot that you have built or a marketing proposal that you created.
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The pharmacy manager explained to me that neither gemfibrozil nor Vicodin was actually dispensed by human pharmacists but by a robot, and she speculated that the robot must have filled my prescription (with gemfibrozil) and then gone on to the next prescription (Vicodin), somehow putting both kinds of pills into the same vial.
Or, rather than one big 220 pound robot, a team could have several robots that add up to 220 pounds, such as the robots Death and Taxes, which fight as a multibot team.
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Researchers have tackled the problem by linking the robot to a navigation system using ultrasound.
The control programs have been used to create control systems for a bipedal robot and a visual recognition system for a robot that works even when the machine is distracted by flashing lights and shadows.
We had a go on "Colors": under a time limit, you have to run the robot over the necessary RFID discs as instructed by the controller's LEDs, and then get to the hexagonal plate -- the "SFX Hub" -- to "deposit" the flags.
It would have to be for a spot of Peter Crouch-style robot dancing.
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As a result, some teams have decided to skip the building robot bugs, and are instead working on using bugs themselves.
Aside from mechanical challenges, what was missing that may have spurred personal robotics development was a dedicated programming language specifically for robot control and communication.
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Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.
The Carnegie Mellon team have gone for the latter and have created a sophisticated computer program that enables just one person to control the robot.
Projects which have already been supported by the University Challenge and Science Enterprise Challenge include a sewer robot - resembling a giant, jointed brush - developed by Durham Pipeline Technology, set up by Durham University.
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