The robot system could be a great help in this very sensitive region.
The software that powers the robots, known as the Robot Operating System, or ROS, is more common.
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But jump starting a virtuous cycle where developers can find uses for the PR2 and its Robot Operating System, spurring, in turn, the development of better robots, could make a real difference.
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.
Researchers have tackled the problem by linking the robot to a navigation system using ultrasound.
Make no mistake: What's in play is the emergence of a caste-based traffic system, one of robot-haves and have-nots, of steely-eyed electronic wheelmen vs.
With remarkable accuracy, the pilots on the James Cook used an acoustic navigation system to "fly" the robot over the rock three miles (4.8km) down towards the oases of life thriving around the vents.
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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To deal with the race's new challenges, Stanford has souped up its robot, called "Junior, " with a new, more flexible system of reasoning, more capable of improvising and planning around unexpected contingencies.
Sony's Entertainment Robot America division sees Aibo as an entertainment platform somewhat akin to a video game system, with new features being constantly added.
Early last year Honda demonstrated how their robot Asimo could lift an arm or a leg through signals sent wirelessly from a system operated by a user with an EEG cap.
The portrait in question was drawn by a robot programmed by Martina Richter, a scientist with the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, based in Ettlingen, Germany, and several of her colleagues.
Not only does the robot look Terminator-esque, but it's been designed to mimic the muscle system of a human (with bone-crushing strength, of course) and will be programmed with a semi-autonomous AI so that the android can learn new tasks, all of which is just a little too much like the Terminator for our comfort.
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.
Once the motor was in place and the robot chip was programmed, the mounted bird was put in the wild along with a discreet sound system playing swamp sparrow calls to attract others.
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