Robots
History of Robots
In the present age, we have robots that can interact with humans to a quite amazing degree.
Types of Robots
Here is a discussion of the various types of robots that are already in use and those that are in the offing in the foreseeable future.
Robot Toys
The child of the 21st century has changed and so have his toys! His toys are now a reflection of his concept of the world around him, his dreams and aspirations.
Make Way for "Robo Crusher!"
Robo Crusher, a state of the art battle-ready vehicle is ready for launch.
Study of Snakes Help Researchers Develop Robots to Save Lives
Most people think of snakes as creepy, evil, or life-threatening - but one professor has discovered that studying snakes may provide the key to saving lives.
Honda Develops Technology to Use Brain Signals to Control Robots
Japanese automaker Honda has announced that it has developed a new technology that takes machines one step closer to the realm of science fiction.
Robotic Surgery Approach in Modern Science
surgery become essential in modern science these days, there are three major advances aided by surgical robots: remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery and unmanned surgery, talking about minimally invasive surgery procedures using long instruments deprive the surgeon of depth perception, dexterity, sense of touch, and the excellent hand-eye coordination that they are so accustomed to in open procedures.
10 Reasons Why you Need a Robot Vacuum Cleaner
A robot vacuum cleaner is the easy way to clean your floors automatically. At the push of a button it will clean a room in about an hour with no supervision.
Robots: Transforming our Thinking
It may seem strange how robots could be examples for humans on how to improve life. But that's what the robot sci-fi flicks, like Transformers, have impressed on me, especially when you talk about logic and reasoning.
Robot
Awaiting death...
Robot Cop: Coming to a City Near You Soon
Real-life Robocops, robots armed with lethal weaponry and a programmed determination to eliminate foes, could become a key element in global counter-terrorist and military operations within 10 years, a US security expert said yesterday.
Robot Aids Wounded
The US military is developing a remote-controlled stretcher bearer to rescue soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
Body Double Robot Designed in Maker's Image
If you have ever wanted to be in two places at once, the answer may be sitting in a Japanese laboratory, muttering, flinching and scowling at passers-by.
Robot Car Tests Street Skills in Us Contest
A prototype robot car that can navigate in built up environments and moving traffic has been unveiled by scientists hoping to win a $2m (£1.02m) competition sponsored by the US military.
Robot Twitcher to Scan Skies for Rare Bird
The world's first robot twitcher has joined the hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker. The device's inventors hope it will come up with the first hard evidence for the elusive bird's existence, and say it could monitor other rare species.
Honda Unveils Latest ASIMO Robot at LA’s Consumer Electronics Show
Honda, the world’s creator of the first ever ASIMO robot has one again made another breakthrough with their humanoid creation with its latest ASIMO presented at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Gates Says Day of the Home-help Robot is Near
An office worker checks her home-gadget webpage from her work computer. The tasks she set for her home robots in the morning have all been completed: washing and ironing, vacuuming the lounge and mowing the lawn.
The Future: Auto Industry Gets Help From Robots
At present, there has recently been a grand event where an organization in the automotive world has exhibited just what it would be to have robots working in the manufacturing of automotive parts and pieces. The whole event was a limited affair for there were only a couple of tickets that were sold.
Smelly Yet Highly Sociable Mini-robot Proves Fatally Attractive to Cockroaches
In a breakthrough for the battle against mankind's most diehard enemy - the cockroach - European scientists have hoodwinked a group of them into congregating in a place where they can be stamped on easily.
That's No Lady, But She's a Remarkably Lifelike Robot
She is EveR-1, the world's second android and Seoul's latest attempt to crack the rapidly growing global market in intelligent robots.
Pentagon Sets Up Robot Unit to Identify Source of Nuclear Attacks
The Pentagon has set up a special unit to conduct forensic tests in the event of a nuclear attack on the US, with the aim of identifying attackers for possible retaliation, a Pentagon official said yesterday.
Robot Car's Desert Drive Scoops £1.1m Prize
A driverless car which steered itself for 132 miles to win a race across the Nevada desert has been named the best robot of all time by Wired magazine.
Robot to Help Rescue Trapped Miners
Rescuers trying to reach 13 miners trapped in a US coal mine for almost 24 hours were today preparing to use a robotic device to try and speed up the rescue operation. The miners are thought to have become trapped around 260 feet underground following an explosion at 6.40am local time...
In a Game Full of Robots I Only Have Eyes for Daniel
Rugby: With England's backs playing rugby by rote against the All Blacks, it was the nimble invention of Daniel Carter that caught the eye of Frank Keating.
At Large: One Miniature Japanese Hopping Robot
A Japanese mission to drop a hopping robot on top of a speeding asteroid has ended in failure.
ROBOT Doctors KILL not Cure
Doctors/Nurses are not robots. Who will save our lives if all our doctors and nurses fall ill because of stress and exhaustion?
Robots meet desert challenge
Pentagon-sponsored competition requires entrants to negotiate a man-made obstacle course across the Mojave desert.
Sex and the Single Robot
A South Korean professor is poised to give cybersex new meaning after developing a series of artificial chromosomes that, he says, will allow robots to feel lusty, and could eventually lead to them reproducing.
European Robot Looks for Clues on Saturn Moon
After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, Nasa spacecraft will complete one more preparatory loop around Titan, before sending its robot cargo on a collision course with Saturn's largest moon.
Robot's Odyssey Across Space Reaches Saturn
Cassini, the most expensive robot space probe ever built, will this week make its final crucial approach to Saturn after a seven-year, two-billion-mile journey across the solar system. On Thursday, the $3 billion spacecraft will slip between two of the planet's rings and ignite its main...
Ocean Robots to Reveal Secrets of the Deep
US and Canadian scientists are preparing to launch a £110m study of the oceans using submarine robot laboratories linked by a 2,000-mile network of fibre optic cables.
US Lander Falls Silent
Spirit, the six-wheeled rover that 19 days ago made a triumphant touchdown on Mars, has fallen mysteriously silent. Late last night, the robot geologist had failed to transmit any coherent message for more than 24 hours. Nor could Nasa's mission controllers in Pasadena make it respond to...
US Mars Rover Misses Best Sites
America's Spirit rover has landed in an arid enclave of Mars that is tantalisingly out of reach of the region's most promising sediments and rocks, dismayed scientists have discovered. As a result, Nasa's engineers may be forced to try to make their trolley-sized robot craft travel much...
Robots without a cause
Thanks to the newest wonders of technology we can get robots to do our vacuuming, transmit pictures on our mobile phones and unlock our cars (and adjust their seats) merely by touching them. In the face of this...
RoboCup
An internatonal football competition for robots starts today and organisers claim human players should start looking over their shoulders by 2050. Here's our guide to the tournament.
US Robots Take a Shine to Indigo Vision's Technology
Robots using video technology supplied by Edinburgh-based Indigo Vision could soon be rooting out terrorists from their tunnel hideouts in Afghanistan following a deal with the US military's defence research operation announced yesterday. Similar robots, equipped with Indigo Vision's...
Tall order for Nasa's cliffhangers
Nasa engineers are experimenting with the ultimate long-distance, all-terrain orienteering challenge - the cliffhanging robots of Mars. In January 2004, two Nasa wheeled robot rovers will land on Mars - just days after a little British experiment called Beagle 2 - to continue the...
surgery become essential in modern science these days, there are three major advances aided by surgical robots: remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery and unmanned surgery, talking about minimally invasive surgery procedures using long instruments deprive the surgeon of depth perception, dexterity, sense of touch, and the excellent hand-eye coordination that they are so accustomed to in open procedures.
10 Reasons Why you Need a Robot Vacuum Cleaner
A robot vacuum cleaner is the easy way to clean your floors automatically. At the push of a button it will clean a room in about an hour with no supervision.
Robots: Transforming our Thinking
It may seem strange how robots could be examples for humans on how to improve life. But that's what the robot sci-fi flicks, like Transformers, have impressed on me, especially when you talk about logic and reasoning.
Robot
Awaiting death...
Robot Cop: Coming to a City Near You Soon
Real-life Robocops, robots armed with lethal weaponry and a programmed determination to eliminate foes, could become a key element in global counter-terrorist and military operations within 10 years, a US security expert said yesterday.
Robot Aids Wounded
The US military is developing a remote-controlled stretcher bearer to rescue soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
Body Double Robot Designed in Maker's Image
If you have ever wanted to be in two places at once, the answer may be sitting in a Japanese laboratory, muttering, flinching and scowling at passers-by.
Robot Car Tests Street Skills in Us Contest
A prototype robot car that can navigate in built up environments and moving traffic has been unveiled by scientists hoping to win a $2m (£1.02m) competition sponsored by the US military.
Robot Twitcher to Scan Skies for Rare Bird
The world's first robot twitcher has joined the hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker. The device's inventors hope it will come up with the first hard evidence for the elusive bird's existence, and say it could monitor other rare species.
Honda Unveils Latest ASIMO Robot at LA’s Consumer Electronics Show
Honda, the world’s creator of the first ever ASIMO robot has one again made another breakthrough with their humanoid creation with its latest ASIMO presented at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Gates Says Day of the Home-help Robot is Near
An office worker checks her home-gadget webpage from her work computer. The tasks she set for her home robots in the morning have all been completed: washing and ironing, vacuuming the lounge and mowing the lawn.
The Future: Auto Industry Gets Help From Robots
At present, there has recently been a grand event where an organization in the automotive world has exhibited just what it would be to have robots working in the manufacturing of automotive parts and pieces. The whole event was a limited affair for there were only a couple of tickets that were sold.
Smelly Yet Highly Sociable Mini-robot Proves Fatally Attractive to Cockroaches
In a breakthrough for the battle against mankind's most diehard enemy - the cockroach - European scientists have hoodwinked a group of them into congregating in a place where they can be stamped on easily.
That's No Lady, But She's a Remarkably Lifelike Robot
She is EveR-1, the world's second android and Seoul's latest attempt to crack the rapidly growing global market in intelligent robots.
Pentagon Sets Up Robot Unit to Identify Source of Nuclear Attacks
The Pentagon has set up a special unit to conduct forensic tests in the event of a nuclear attack on the US, with the aim of identifying attackers for possible retaliation, a Pentagon official said yesterday.
Robot Car's Desert Drive Scoops £1.1m Prize
A driverless car which steered itself for 132 miles to win a race across the Nevada desert has been named the best robot of all time by Wired magazine.
Robot to Help Rescue Trapped Miners
Rescuers trying to reach 13 miners trapped in a US coal mine for almost 24 hours were today preparing to use a robotic device to try and speed up the rescue operation. The miners are thought to have become trapped around 260 feet underground following an explosion at 6.40am local time...
In a Game Full of Robots I Only Have Eyes for Daniel
Rugby: With England's backs playing rugby by rote against the All Blacks, it was the nimble invention of Daniel Carter that caught the eye of Frank Keating.
At Large: One Miniature Japanese Hopping Robot
A Japanese mission to drop a hopping robot on top of a speeding asteroid has ended in failure.
ROBOT Doctors KILL not Cure
Doctors/Nurses are not robots. Who will save our lives if all our doctors and nurses fall ill because of stress and exhaustion?
Robots meet desert challenge
Pentagon-sponsored competition requires entrants to negotiate a man-made obstacle course across the Mojave desert.
Sex and the Single Robot
A South Korean professor is poised to give cybersex new meaning after developing a series of artificial chromosomes that, he says, will allow robots to feel lusty, and could eventually lead to them reproducing.
European Robot Looks for Clues on Saturn Moon
After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, Nasa spacecraft will complete one more preparatory loop around Titan, before sending its robot cargo on a collision course with Saturn's largest moon.
Robot's Odyssey Across Space Reaches Saturn
Cassini, the most expensive robot space probe ever built, will this week make its final crucial approach to Saturn after a seven-year, two-billion-mile journey across the solar system. On Thursday, the $3 billion spacecraft will slip between two of the planet's rings and ignite its main...
Ocean Robots to Reveal Secrets of the Deep
US and Canadian scientists are preparing to launch a £110m study of the oceans using submarine robot laboratories linked by a 2,000-mile network of fibre optic cables.
US Lander Falls Silent
Spirit, the six-wheeled rover that 19 days ago made a triumphant touchdown on Mars, has fallen mysteriously silent. Late last night, the robot geologist had failed to transmit any coherent message for more than 24 hours. Nor could Nasa's mission controllers in Pasadena make it respond to...
US Mars Rover Misses Best Sites
America's Spirit rover has landed in an arid enclave of Mars that is tantalisingly out of reach of the region's most promising sediments and rocks, dismayed scientists have discovered. As a result, Nasa's engineers may be forced to try to make their trolley-sized robot craft travel much...
Robots without a cause
Thanks to the newest wonders of technology we can get robots to do our vacuuming, transmit pictures on our mobile phones and unlock our cars (and adjust their seats) merely by touching them. In the face of this...
RoboCup
An internatonal football competition for robots starts today and organisers claim human players should start looking over their shoulders by 2050. Here's our guide to the tournament.
US Robots Take a Shine to Indigo Vision's Technology
Robots using video technology supplied by Edinburgh-based Indigo Vision could soon be rooting out terrorists from their tunnel hideouts in Afghanistan following a deal with the US military's defence research operation announced yesterday. Similar robots, equipped with Indigo Vision's...
Tall order for Nasa's cliffhangers
Nasa engineers are experimenting with the ultimate long-distance, all-terrain orienteering challenge - the cliffhanging robots of Mars. In January 2004, two Nasa wheeled robot rovers will land on Mars - just days after a little British experiment called Beagle 2 - to continue the...