Robotics Category - Page 2

It’s long been a complaint about the FDA–in the United States, anyway–hat the approval process is just entirely too slow. And indeed, we’ve seen more than once how medications and procedures and devices that are already in use throughout Europe and Asia often take just as long to clear the [...]

High school isn’t easy for most anyone. The constant pressure to fit in, the various cliques, the unsettling interplay of high school politics…and that’s before you even hit a class. But for Lyndon Baty, currently down with a weakened immune system stemming from Polycystic Kidney Disease, high school could have [...]

Food service has never been what you’d call a dream job for a lot of people–with the exception of some chefs, of course. Taking food to people who treat you as less than the scraps they throw away isn’t a self-esteem builder, so it’s hardly a surprise to see robots [...]

It’s a great day when I can pull out a robot story, and a good one just crossed up thanks to the PALRO robot. This portmanteau of Pal and Robot is coming our way with a little extra room in its skill set–apparently, it picked up English.

Out of all the Kinect news that we’ve heard over the last few months, and there has been a whole lot of Kinect news, perhaps one of the most bizarre is the revelation that engineering students out at the University of Washington have taken a Kinect and turned it into [...]

There was a movie, back in the eighties, called Chopping Mall–you can tell from the title it was a horror flick–that showed us a mall in which robots patrolled after hours, but ended up going insane and killing a bunch of people accidentally stuck inside. This new development from Ed [...]

I genuinely did not think I’d see a robot story out of CES 2011. I knew this CES was all about the tablets and smartphones and equally smart televisions, but the folks out at Cyberdyne (no seriously, that’s their name) brought out the Challenge HAL (here, HAL stands for Hybrid [...]

For those of you out there who get BBC, or one of the various sources of online play for BBC material, you’ll likely want to know about the documentary Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice, a scene from which is shown below. Not only does it feature perennial geek favorite [...]

It’s always good to bring out a story involving robots, and the folks at the Daejon Museum of Art in South Korea (what, you thought it was going to be North Korea? No way.) are more than willing, apparently, to oblige me as they wheel out the Docent robot, their [...]

With New Years’ Eve only something like two days away, depending on where you are, chances are you’re thinking about a party of some type. And sure, you could make your guests fetch their own from a tub full of ice, but how about having a fridge that will fire [...]