Robots
Robot Fish To Gather Data About Ocean Pollution
Sunday, May 17th, 2009LONDON (Reuters) - Robot fish developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off north Spain to detect pollution.the Robot Fish are designed to head out into the open water, take in data about water pollutants, return to a charging station about every 8 hours and while charging, submit data about water [...]
iRobot makes “Rangoli” and draws on the floor
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009iRobot Create is a hobbyist robot manufactured by iRobot that is based on the Roomba platform. It was introduced in 2007.This might be a fun way to deliver messages.Due to its small size and low cost, the iRobot Create is popular in the robotic research community. In particular, research projects in the area of multi-robot [...]
Brain Machine technology
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Honda Research Institute Japan Co. Ltd, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International and Shimadzu Corporation have jointly developed what they call the World’s first Brain Machine Interface. What does it do? Well, you can control your robot with the help of your thoughts! The technology used is the electroencephalography and near-infrared spectroscopy along with newly developed [...]
Robot Gardeners!
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Students and researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed robots that tend to tomato plants— no human intervention required. The plants themselves have soil sensors and can network with the robots, letting them know when they need water or nutrients. The robots, meanwhile, are equipped with watering pumps and robotic arms [...]