Robotics Category

I admit, I’m not what you’d call a great housekeeper. Tales of robotic vacuum cleaners are to me a vague hope that one day I’ll actually be able to fully vacuum under the bed without having to contort myself into positions that would make some circus acts green with envy. [...]

After miscarrying a baby boy a year ago, an Irish couple is able to have a healthy baby boy thanks to the help of a robot. Because of the precision the doctors were able to get with the help of this robot, a normally much more invasive surgery turned into a minimally [...]

It’s been almost a year–ten months, roughly–since we last heard anything out of the Willow Garage PR2 robot, and man, do we have an update for you! Turns out the PR2 has discovered a purpose that’s of huge value to society: shaving quadriplegics.

It’s been a while since we’ve last heard anything in the robotics beat, so it’s exciting to bring out word of the Hanako 2. Speaking for a moment as someone who has seen his share, and then some, of Japanese horror film, I know from where I speak when I [...]

We all know that Angry Birds is something of a big deal as far as mobile gaming goes. And we all know that robots are exciting pieces of technology that accomplish great things on a regular basis. But what happens when you combine the two? You get Finnish tech company [...]

Well, this may well represent one of the strangest things I’ve seen in the gadget beat thus far. If you’ve been walking in any major city of late, you’ve likely seen people called panhandlers out begging for coins in the street. They’ve got various tools to make themselves stand out; [...]

You’ve probably heard a little bit about this already, but the effort is expanding. Japan’s International Rescue System Institute has dispatched a team of 23 robots geared to take over some of the most dangerous work out at the beleaguered Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Folks, take a good look at that pic below. Do you think I put up a picture of a robot…or the person who created it? As you take that look I requested of you, you’re probably going to be astonished to find that that’s actually the robot. Specifically, you’re looking [...]

One critical advantage of face to face conversation that phone calls don’t often offer is the ability to read (or attempt to, anyway; some of us are not very good at that sort of thing) body language cues in a bid to derive things like mood. But now, there’s a [...]

Admittedly, a robot that can wipe down a dry erase board isn’t exactly overwhelming news, but the implications of this will excite where the story itself might not. This comes from the folks who only recently taught a robot to fire a bow and arrow, and it’s steadily getting less [...]