2010-05-12

DLR's Safe Robots

Researchers study knife-wielding robots (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people have dreamed of robots helping around the house, vacuuming the carpets, making the beds, and chopping vegetables in the kitchen. Now a new study has found such robots could pose a danger to humans if they use sharp implements such as steak knives.

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Department of Robotic Systems

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At the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) a new generation of safe robots was developed for direct physical cooperation with humans.This will qualify the robots as assistants for humans in industrial assembly and manufacturing, medicine, or, one day, even as a house-hold help in everyone’s home. In all these applications it has to be ensured that the robot will under no circumstances injure the humans due to malfunction or even in case of user errors. This research tries to systematically study and classify all possible injuries which can appear in human-robot interaction, generate a large experimental data basis for understanding and evaluating these potential injuries and provide design and software measured to avoid or at least diminish them as much as possible.

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Human-Robot Collision Study

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Robotics Soft-Tissue Injury Study

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Approaching Asimov's 1st Law

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Injury Evaluation of Human-Robot Impacts

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Japan scientists create 3-D images you can touch

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Imagine a light switch or a book that appears only when you need it -- Japanese scientists are one step closer to making the stuff of sci-fi films into reality after creating a hologram that can also be felt.

"Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through," Hiroyuki Shinoda, professor at Tokyo university and one of the developers of the technology, told Reuters.

"But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touch to holograms."

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SIGGRAPH 2009 / Emerging Technologies:

Touchable Holography

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Touchable holograms could be used for a wide variety of things... everything from light switches to books with each appearing when needed, and then disappearing when not.

And holograms could replace the need for making new interfaces for technology, since they could be changed without having to make a new physical product.

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