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2011-12-27

Robot Wrestling



GetRobo Blog English: The Genuine Great King Kizer follows "Moore's Law"



 The Shin Great King Kizer won the ROBO-ONE Grand Prix which was held in November. It also participated in the "world's first" wrestling match between a robot and a professional (human) wrestler.





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2011-11-04

Showa Hanako 2 a Dental Training Robot

Showa Hanako 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Going to the dentist is something that we all have to do. Going to a novice dentist, and his or her drill, is something that most of us would rather avoid but they have to practice somewhere. Luckily for us researchers at Showa, a Japanese university, have been working on a solution to this thorny issue. They have created a robot, the Showa Hanako 2 that is able to not only mimic the kind of movement and gestures that a dentist may experience in the real world.

Showa Hanako 2: Unique Robotic Dental Patient for College Students | Gadget Health News

Showa Hanako 2 is explained to be a much more user friendly and also useful replacement unit to Showa Hanako 1, and this was introduced around March 2010. “Love doll” manufacturer Orient Industry is liable for the silicone pores and skin (this changes the PVC skin of the old type) and also mouth area lining, that boosts the real looking sense plus reduces water from obtaining directly into the machinery.
Showa Hanako 2 is actually created to switch normally and also efficiently just like a realistic person. It can certainly blink, rotate its eyeballs, sneezing, move its head, coughing, move its tongue and also even become sick and tired whenever getting to hold its mouth wide open for very a long time. Curiously, the robot is also able of replicating a gag response, that is rather repeated through dental types of procedures.





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2011-09-09

Cleverbot Chats Like a Human


Cleverbot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Cleverbot is an AI web application that learns how to mimic human conversations by communicating with humans. It was created by AI veteran Rollo Carpenter, who also created Jabberwacky, a similar web application. In the first decade of its existence after being created in 1988, Cleverbot held several thousand conversations with Carpenter and his associates. Since being launched on the web in 1997, the number of conversations has exceeded 65 million.[2]

  • Cleverbot, a learning Artificial Intelligence conversationalist, took part alongside humans in a formal Turing Test at the Techniche 2011 festival at IIT Guwahati, India on the 3rd of September. The results from 1,334 votes were announced September 4th 2011. Cleverbot was judged to be 59.3% human, far exceeding expectations. The humans in the event achieved just 63.3%.
PopSci's Future Of: Cleverbot : Video : Science Channel



How the Cleverbot computer chats like a human - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

  • So what magnificent algorithm lies in the gearbox of this brilliant machine, which can seem more human than not? How have its programmers equipped it with so much conversational, contextual and factual knowledge? 
  • The answer is very simple: crowdsourcing. As the chatbot's designer, Rollo Carpenter, put it in a video explainer produced by PopSci.com, "You can call it a conversational Wikipedia if you like."
  • The key to Cleverbot's success is that it doesn't respond solely on the basis of the last thing typed, but keeps track of words and phrases that have come up in the conversation already. As Carpenter explained, "It looks back to the whole conversation and says, there are maybe tens of thousands of people who have maybe responded to 'how are you?' in the past; which of those tens of thousands of responses is most suitable to use this time?" [How Do Calculators Calculate?]

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other - YouTube




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2011-06-14

Playing Robots

Family | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION GLOBAL WEBSITE

Partner Robot Family

Partner Robot, as its name suggests, is a robot that assists people with a combination of caring and intelligence.

Playing Violin

The instrument is delicately played like a human with a highly advanced cooperative control of both hands and arms. This tool is aimed to provide support in medical, nursing and housework areas.



ZeroMojo » Tech News : Robot plays pool



Thomas Nierhoff, a masters student at Technische Universität München (TUM), relied on a human-sized mobile robot with dual 7-DOF arms to achieve this vision, and the arms are able to manipulate a pool cue just like how a human does – hopefully with better accuracy thanks to a camera that is located above the table to track the various positions of the balls, helping the robot plan its shots in the process.



The PR2 Plays Pool | Willow Garage


With only a small team of developers and a week's worth of development, the PR2 can now play pool! [...]  The Poolshark team dealt with numerous technical challenges throughout the week: engineering a special grip and bridge so the PR2 could hold the cue, a ball detector, table localization, visualizations and input tools, shot selector, and more.


DLR - Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - Research

Mobile Humanoid "Rollin' Justin"

The mobile robotic system Justin with its compliant controlled light weight arms and its two four finger hands is an ideal experimental platform for dual handed mobil manipulation. The newly developed mobile platform allows the long range autonomous operation of the system. The individually movable, spring born wheels match the special requirements of “Justin's” upper body during manipulation tasks. Various sensors allow the 3D reconstruction of the robot's environment and therefore enable Justin to perform given tasks autonomously.


ETH - IDSC - Flying Machine Arena

A state-of-the-art platform for motion control research.
The Flying Machine Arena offers a safe, controlled sandbox environment allowing the testing and validation of mobile robots. Thanks to its large size, it allows the testing of fast-paced motions, be it on the ground or in the air. The Flying Machine Arena offers ideal conditions to test novel concepts thanks to a high-precision localization system, high-performance radio links, easy-to-use software structure, and safety nets enclosing the space (more information on the Flying Machine Arena infrastructure).




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2010-08-01

Acrobatic Robots



A Drexel University-led research team unveiled the newest, most central member of a collaboration with Korean researchers. Jaemi, a humanoid (HUBO), embodies efforts to advance humanoid development and enhance the concept of human-robotic interaction.
Hong's lab, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech, is filled with robots that would fit right into a "Star Wars" sequel. "From humanoid robots to rolling, climbing, wheel-leg hybrid robots," says Hong, as he points to the row of awards that circle the large rubber robot work out mat on the floor of the lab.

Collected from: Acrobatic Robots




Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory

"Robot Evolution by Intelligent Design"

The Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech is a facility for graduate and undergraduate robotics research and education with an emphasis on studying novel mobile robot locomotion strategies. Our research interests are in the area of Robot Locomotion and Manipulation, Kinematics and Mechanisms, and Autonomous Systems.

Collected from: RoMeLa

Collected from: Robots - RoMeLa


Sources
Acrobatic Robots
http://www.physorg.com/news199368009.html
YouTube - Science Nation - Acrobatic Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpvE4fySkGA
RoMeLa
http://www.romela.org/main/Robotics_and_Mechanisms_Laboratory
Robots - RoMeLa
http://www.romela.org/main/Robots

Related
Acrobatic Robots | LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?aid=36968
Dennis Hong | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Virginia Tech
http://www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/hong.html
Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/dennis_hong_my_seven_species_of_robot.html
YouTube - Meet our robots!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URwrpaELOOI&feature=player_embedded#!
YouTube - CHARLI L robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmXIGCCDvk
YouTube - DARwIn, by RoMeLa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBjbDVftJw


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2010-02-27

MIT Media Lab -- Personal Robots



Clipped from: MIT Media Lab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of multimedia and technology, the Media Lab was widely popularized in the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a series of practical inventions in the fields of wireless networks, field sensing, web browsers and the World Wide Web. More recently it has focused on product design more generally, particularly for technologies that address social causes.[1]


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Projects




Clipped from: Overview

Leonardo

This project is a collaboration with the world famous Stan Winston Studio. It combines the studio's artistry and expertise in creating compelling animatronic characters with state of the art research in socially intelligent robots. We have christened this new character collaboration with a name that embodies art, science and invention. Hence, the name "Leonardo" -- namesake of Leonardo DaVinci, the Renaissance scientist, inventor and artist. 




Clipped from: Overview

MDS

The purpose of this platform is to support research and education goals in human-robot interaction, teaming, and social learning.





Clipped from: Overview

Huggable™

The Huggable™ is a new type of robotic companion being developed at the MIT Media Lab for healthcare, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable™ designed to be much more than a fun interactive robotic companion. It is designed to function as a team member that is an essential member of a triadic interaction. Therefore, the Huggable™ is not designed to replace any particular person in a social network, but rather to enhance that human social network. 




Clipped from: Overview

Aida

The aim of the Personal Robot's portion of the project is to expand the relationship between the car and the driver with the goal of making the driving experience more effective, safer, and more enjoyable.



Clipped from: YouTube - AIDA in Dash


Clipped from: Overview

Tofu

TOFU is a project to explore new ways of robotic social expression by leveraging techniques that have been used in 2d animation for decades.



Clipped from: YouTube - Meet TOFU

Sources:
Personal Robots Group - MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Projects
Leonardo
YouTube - Leonardo Robot - isn't this the cutest robot ever?
MDS
YouTube - Nexi (M.I.T. MediaLab) at Laval Virtual 2009
Huggable
YouTube - Siggraph 2006 - MRI (Mixed-Reality Interface)
Aida
YouTube - AIDA in Dash
Tofu
YouTube - Meet TOFU
Related:
MIT Media Lab
Personal Robots | MIT Media Lab
Personal Robots | MIT World
QTC Robot Skin Feels How Hard You Touch – Coming soon to MIT, Samsung, Others | Singularity Hub
Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star
MIT's 'Tofu' Robot Mixes Science, Ridiculous Cuteness | Technomix | Fast Company
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2010-01-20

Ben-Gurion University's Wall-Climbing Robots

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Robots climb up the wall (w/ Video)


(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotics scientist from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheeba, Israel, has developed four different kinds of robots that climb up walls.

Clipped from: YouTube - Wall Climbing Robots developed at Ben Gurion University

Wall Climbing Robots developed at Ben Gurion University


The robots shown are: First, a magnetic climber that has compliant magnetic wheels and is capable to climb on ferromagnetic surfaces. This robot can be used for inspection of ship hull or bridges. Second, is a Snail inspired wall climbing robot capable of climbing on non metallic surfaces using hot melt glue. The robot secretes the adhesive at the front and peels off the track from the wall at the bottom leaving a trail behind just like the snail does. Third, is a robot that uses sticky wheels in order to attach itself to the wall. It simply has 3Ms sticky tape on the wheels. It can climb on smooth surfaces like glass. Fourth, is a four legged wall climbing robot for climbing on rough surfaces. It has 12 claws made of fishing hooks mounted on each footpad, and it climbs like cat or other rodents



Clipped from: The Engineering Faculty - Mechanical Engineering - Home



Industrial Mechatronics and Robotics
 Prof. B. Sandler, Prof. V. Portman & Dr. Amir Shapiro
 Parallel kinematics machines. CIM related Robotics. Single- and Multi-Dimensional Micro Manipulators: Applications to Machine Tools Technology. 6-DOF accelerometers. Intellectual robots. Mobile robots. Numeralytics: Investigation of a Spatial Double Pendulum.
Clipped from: Robotics' Wild Kingdom

Robotics' Wild Kingdom

Israeli robot researcher Amir Shapiro builds snakelike robots (like the one draped around his neck) that can twist like screws. He also makes robots that scale walls (bottom) by releasing tiny amounts of glue, much as a snail leaves a trail of mucus.

Israeli roboticist Amir Shapiro takes his engineering cues from members of the animal kingdom, though his choices might seem unexpected: snakes and snails. Oh, and cats, too.
In the field of biomimetics-the use of technology to mimic nature--there's a subspecialty that mimics animal locomotion, and several research centers have worked on robots that mimic the undulation of a snake. But Shapiro's team has gone a step further (no pun intended) by combining two concurrent wave motions to create a slithering movement.
"These three-dimensional snakes have two sets of motors that give us two traveling wave motions, in the vertical and horizontal directions," says Shapiro, who heads the robotics lab in the mechanical engineering department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba, Israel.

Sources:
  1. Robots climb up the wall (w/ Video)
  2. YouTube - Wall Climbing Robots developed at Ben Gurion University
  3. The Engineering Faculty - Mechanical Engineering - Home
  4. The Engineering Faculty - Labs - lab general infornation
  5. Robotics' Wild Kingdom
Related:
  1. IEEE Spectrum: Robotics' Wild Kingdom
  2. Amir Shapiro, Ph.D.
  3. Four Robots, Four Different Ways To Climb Walls - Negev - Gizmodo
  4. Ben-Gurion University's wall-climbing robots scale defenses, haunt nightmares, stain faux-finishes (video) -- Engadget
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2009-09-16

Jumping Robots

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Air-powered leaping robot created in Tokyo

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Mowgli, a robot created by engineers at the University of Tokyo, is able to leap vertically about 50cm into the air and has been seen jumping onto and off chairs and other objects.

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Logo EPFL
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Self Deploying MicroGlider

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7g jumping robot
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Computer Aided Design model of the Self Deploying Microglider
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Read more: http://technology.newscient...
A new robot modelled after a grasshopper can jump higher than any robot ever has before.
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University of Bath
The first robot that can jump like a grasshopper and roll like a ball could play a key role in future space exploration.

The ‘Jollbot’ has been created by Rhodri Armour, a PhD student from the University of Bath. It’s hoped his creation, which can jump over obstacles and roll over smoother terrain, could be used for space exploration or land survey work in the future.

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Back to Sandia National Laboratory Homepage

Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities

working robot
working robot
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Sources:
  1. TechRadar UK | Image zoom | Air-powered leaping robot created in Tokyo
  2. Air-powered leaping robot created in Tokyo | News | TechRadar UK
  3. YouTube - Mowgli bipedal jumping robot
  4. EPFL - Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) - Prof. Dario Floreano
  5. YouTube - Grasshopper robot sets hopping record
  6. Press Release - 04 December 2008 - University of Bath
  7. YouTube - Robot that jumps like a grasshopper could play a key role in future space exploration.
  8. Sandia hopping robots to bolser troop capabilities - September 11, 2009
  9. Video: Precision Urban Hopper leaps over fences, makes enemies cringe
Related:
  1. 'Grasshopper' robot sets high-jump record - tech - 21 May 2008 - New Scientist
  2. Video: Jumping rolling robot avoids all obstacles - tech - 08 December 2008 - New Scientist
  3. BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Military robot 'hops' over walls
  4. Robo Hop | Popular Science
  5. TG Daily - Boinggg... military robot jumps 25 feet high
  6. YouTube - 1.5gram Gliding Robot doing Phototaxis
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2009-08-26

Nanorobotics -- Manipulating at the Nanometer Scale

Clipped from: Nanorobotics

Nanorobotics

Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10-9 metres).

[...]

As no artificial non-biological nanorobots have so far been created, they remain a hypothetical concept at this time.

Another definition sometimes used is a robot which allows precision interactions with nanoscale objects, or can manipulate with nanoscale resolution.

[...]

Also, macroscale robots or microrobots which can move with nanoscale precision can also be considered nanorobots..

Clipped from: NanoRobotics Laboratory



Gecko Hair Manufacturing
Synthetic Gecko Hair Fabrication for Dry Adhesion




Goal: Develop techniques for producing synthetic gecko foot hairs with nano/micro hair heirarchy. Refine these techniques into processes which will alow for cost effective mass production. Utilize the gecko hair material to create advanced ultra-mobile robots.

Wormbot
A modular robot for wall climbing.

TeleNano
Augmented Reality User Interface for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM)



Goal
 To develop a human-machine interface for atomic force microscope (AFM) based nano-scale manipulation. A haptic device lets the user control the position of the AFM-probe and relays measured forces to his fingertip. The user sees the topography of the nano-surface, including surface interactions, and probe positions in a realtime computer graphics environment.

Clipped from: Tiny Robots Get A Grip On Nanotubes



Tiny Robots Get A Grip On Nanotubes

ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2009) — How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon nanotubes thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

Clipped from: NanoHand Project

NanoHand is a European funded project, where leading researchers and industry collaborate to create the world’s first nanorobotic production system inside of a scanning electron microscope. Nanorobotics, controlled and even automated manipulation using nanoscale tools, manipulators and soldering techniques, will allow tiny carbon nanotubes to be placed as components anywhere in a circuit to replace ordinary components or to form altogether novel devices that could not be produced using conventional methods.

Clipped from: YouTube - NanoBits: towards a nanoassembly line

NanoBits: towards a nanoassembly line



Clipped from: YouTube - The Next Generation of Nanomanipulation

The Next Generation of Nanomanipulation


Clipped from: YouTube - NanoHand Micro-nano systems for automatic handling of nanoobjects

NanoHand Micro-nano systems for automatic handling of nanoobjects



Sources:
  1. Nanorobotics
  2. NanoRobotics Laboratory
  3. Tiny Robots Get A Grip On Nanotubes
  4. NanoHand Project
  5. YouTube - NanoBits: towards a nanoassembly line
  6. YouTube - The Next Generation of Nanomanipulation
  7. YouTube - NanoHand Micro-nano systems for automatic handling of nanoobjects
Related:
  1. IRIS :: Research
  2. NanoRobotics Laboratory
  3. YouTube - Micro Swimming Robots
  4. Research - Laboratoire de nanorobotique
  5. Nanorobotics
  6. Nanorobotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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