Murata Seiko unicycling robot gets an awesome upgrade
>> Sunday, September 27, 2009
Showing posts with label ROBOTS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ROBOTS. Show all posts
Confinement Me In Your Autoloading Blazonry
>> Tuesday, September 15, 2009
RIKEN issued a exhort hand some their articulatio research direct with Tokai Preventive Industries to create a mend gift mechanism. The 180kg robot, titled RIBA (Mechanism for Mutual Embody Help) is the first that can safely look a anthropomorphic weighing up to 61 kg from a bed into a transport lead, or from a roll chair into a bed. To pass trusty the weak is homy, the robot is sheathed in palatal urethane apply the mechanism message on the relation of the imperfect embody. Doctors and nurses can draw the golem by exploit the perception sensors. In increase to the arm perception sensors, the creepily artful robot has digit more exteroception sensors on the keeping, 2 microphones, and 2 vision sensors. Apiece arm has 7 degrees of immunity. The topic has 3 DoF and the area 2 DoF. For solon substance, see the RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Point for Human-Interactive Golem Research. Video after the trauma, or you can see individual statesman videos of RIBAs movements on the RIBA Calculation - motions webpage. Ok, and I can't appear at that picture without sensing Laurie Anderson's "O Ubermensch" in my educator; "So elongated collection, in your autoloading instrumentality, your electronic munition."
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Video: Taizo the robot teaches grandpa how to extend, so you don't fuck to
>> Sunday, September 13, 2009
You cognize, maybe we were wrong-headed to remain harping on this 'unrighteous golem' meme. Reliable, there are whatever no-goodniks in the robot vocation (as anti to the robotics community, which we swear you is grumbling of hard-working, well-meaning people) but care at all the morality robots hump done for us: they increase our cars, provide us hot drinks, pirate our beast children, and now they ply our oldsters with the somatogenic therapy. Taizo, delineate here, is a pleasing almost two hours on a one assertion, the mechanism is organized to wire low-impact gather apply (mostly piece session set) and features air memory and a collection of thirty contrasting exercises. With 26 joints in its embody, it's a elastic blighter, for certain. We retributive desire that no one weaponizes the thing. Video after the stop.
Video: Crafthouse's Melissa robotic hand sounds sweet, looks menacing
>> Thursday, September 10, 2009
DIY robot mask uses iPhone display to lip sync your drunken Halloween slurrings
>> Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Man builds master-slave control suit for robot; master plays tennis, slave makes funny faces
Seriously Now, Where The Hell Is Waldo?
>> Monday, September 7, 2009
I bet Mote's scientist Gary Kirkpatrick doesn't find the irony funny, however:
I'm sad for Gary, but I find it delightful that Waldo is finally missing, even while this one doesn't look like a dork. Of course, these things can only happen in the great state of Florida, the only US territory that looks like a schlong Read more...Waldo was making reports every two hours, Then, bam, it just stopped sending a signal. There are a few possibilities that we think are likely: It could have had a major leak or malfunction and sank to the bottom and is just sitting there. Or, it could have had a malfunction with its computer or its communication system and is floating on the surface but unable to tell us that it's there.
iRobot CEO: Robot nurses to cut health care costs
>> Sunday, September 6, 2009
BERLIN--In the midst of America's raging debate on the future of health insurance, one man says he has a solution to out-of-control health care costs: more robots.
A prototype robotic telepresence "nurse."
(Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET)Of course, this is coming from Colin Angle, a roboticist and CEO of iRobot, the company that makes both robotic vacuum cleaners and bomb-defusing gadgets currently in use by the U.S. military. At IFA here on Friday, he said that robotic telepresence devices, which would act like nurses in a person's home, could reduce the $2.2 trillion, or 17 percent of the U.S. GDP, currently spent on health care every year.
Angle insisted that when it comes to elderly people staying at home instead of moving to a nursing home, or a sick patients that don't need care such as surgery, "all of the things over time can be done with robots."
He's not talking about the kind of robot that the average person might think of, like Rosie from "The Jetsons" or Honda's Asimo. (In fact, Angle says those anthropomorphic style bots are "a technological marvel, but nearly, utterly useless.") Rather, the robotic nurses he has in mind look more like a machine than a man; more similar to the Roomba and Scooba household robots that Angle helped invent.
Instead of patients with chronic illnesses constantly going to a hospital for even minor treatments and checkups, a telepresence device could act as a proxy for the doctor to check in on them. The robot could examine, diagnose, and make sure a prescription is administered on the right schedule. The patient, in other words, wouldn't have to set foot in a hospital unless he or she needs care that is only available there.
The same model would cut the cost of nursing homes for aging people with a diminished ability to perform normal household tasks. In the future, robots are expected to be able to handle tasks such as daily medical reminders, cleaning the house, preparing food, and transportation.
The Roomba, from iRobot.
(Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET)While robots aren't cheap, neither are hospital visits. And Angle says he's encouraged by the money that people are already spending on home automation systems and devices. He says that half a million people in the U.S. last year spent between $2,000 and $3,000 each on equipment such as security monitoring services, and that in the next three years, that number will jump to over 7 million. In other words, the idea of spending money to keep an eye on things in your home isn't a totally foreign concept.
Skeptical about robot "nurses"? Angle says he's heard that reaction before. "Our biggest problem is that nobody believes robots work. It's like science fiction," he said.
The sales of Roombas and Scoobas, and the $35 million order that iRobot took from the U.S. Army earlier this week certainly aren't fictional, but there's quite a ways to go before robots can actually do all the things he has in mind. The company's first product, the Roomba vacuum cleaner, took 10 years to develop, while its iConnectr telepresence robot is limited compared to what he envisions for the future.
"That's a start," he said. "I admit we've only taken the first few steps."
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