Take traveling from point A to point B, so a robot can deliver a glass from the kitchen to the dining table: Once it sets out, the robot can try to figure out its position by counting the number of times its wheels have rotated.
Mr. Navarrete sent the robot out for tacos ordered by the co-worker, who remained in the office.
To test out their DNA robot, the researchers loaded it with antibody fragments directed at two different types of cancer cells.
But in a typical home environment, users should expect to get up to an hour and a half of "driving" time out of the robot.
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Responsive web design was invented just over two years ago, out of the robot-infused mind of Boston designer Ethan Marcotte (he went on to write a book of the same title).
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"If a robot just walks out there telling random jokes and not acknowledging that he is a robot, it isn't going to create a rapport with the audience, " she noted.
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In 1950 Mr Sale, then aged 19, created a robot named George out of scrap metal that came from a crashed Wellington bomber.
The hard work at the Eindhoven-based company is carried out by an old industrial robot that Vander Kooij fashioned into a 3D printer.
Computer problems have kept the Endeavour at the station longer than expected as astronauts try to carry out operations of a critical robot arm.
The robot then draws out your portrait in a patch of sand, which you can watch live on YouTube and visitors can watch in person at the museum.
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Since the robot could hang out in the dark, it could conceivably be equipped with a microphone or tracking system to gather intelligence for longer investigations, rather than one-time interdictions.
Depending on which vehicle it's programmed to build, the robot will reach out to one conveyor belt for the side panels of an Armada or Titan, and another for the side panels of a Quest.
At which point we'll just have to let the robot lawyers duke it out.
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Surgeons at a Scottish hospital are using a robot to help carry out knee operations, BBC Scotland can reveal.
Now it has taken an order from Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), which wants to try the hand out on the arm of a robot used for bomb disposal.
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"They're sending in a robot to check the place out, " he said by telephone.
The deal comes as Makani carries out the first fully autonomous flights of robot kites bearing its power-generating propellers.
Hollywood took the opportunity to promo a robot companion heist film coming out later this summer.
Look at the details: the Chinese, it turns out, are sending the moon a robot, not a taikonaut.
Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.
The scientists said the device could work like "an artificial nose for a robot dog", sniffing out extremely low concentrations of vapour.
"There just aren't enough people out there who want to own a robot, " says Steve Rainwater , chairman of Network Cybernetics and co-founder of the robotics blog robots.net.
And here I was thinking the robot was simply having trouble figuring out how to draw my eyebrows.
He works on clams and is building robot versions of them to find out how the shape of an animal's shell affects its chances of survival.
Today's luxury robot, of course, may turn out to be tomorrow's mass-market hit.
The Korean robotics expert is best known for creating the Federation of International Robot Soccer, where droids battle it out on the pitch.
New Cross Hospital hopes to carry out 30 mitral valve repairs a year using the robot that is already employed in other operations at the hospital.
In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
Engineers can calculate the most efficient route for a spray-painting robot to take around a car body, work out how quickly parts must be supplied, look for bottlenecks or even tell if a human worker's task is likely to give him backache.
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