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Humanoid Robot Goes To Work On Linux
News Japanese manufacturer Kawada has released details of a Linux-based humanoid robot that it believes could be employed in the workplace. The robot, called HRP-2P (which stands for Humanoid Robotics Project-2 Prototype) runs on a real-time version of...
[March 22, 2002, 16:08]
Photos: Humanoid Robots Come To Life At MIT
News Domo is the robot developed by Aaron Edsinger, a member of the Humanoid Robotics Group, who just completed his PhD while working under Brooks. Eduardo Torres-Java, a PhD candidate in the Humanoid Robotics Group at the MIT CSAIL, stands with Obrero...
[May 16, 2007, 11:33]
Fujitsu Opens Up Linux-based Humanoid Robot
News Fujitsu is poised to release technical details on Tuesday of a humanoid robot that can walk on its own two legs. The 48cm-tall robot is shaped like a humanoid, weighs 6kg and has been designed "for wide applications in research and development of...
[September 17, 2001, 16:44]
Linux-based Humanoid Robot Set For Euro Debut
News Japanese scientists are planning to demonstrate a walking, Linux-operated, humanoid robot at an open source event in Italy next month. The bipedal H7 robot is around 137cm tall, and weighs 55kg. It has 36 joints -- or "degrees of freedom" -- which...
[October 25, 2001, 12:52]
Humanoid Robot Sprints To Glory
Talkback This is brilliant, I thought nobody would get this far. It not like the droids in Starwars, but they arn't very clever anyway, still I wouldn't mind one holding an umbrella for me. No video ZDnet?
[December 13, 2005, 17:58]
Robots Gear Up For European Football Championship
News Several companies have produced humanoid robots capable of walking on two legs, even up stairs or across uneven surfaces, while Sony has virtually single-handedly created a consumer-robot market with its Aibo dog, released in 1999.
[June 20, 2003, 13:51]
Salty Smartphones
Blog Ever get tired of reviews that concentrate too much on the needs of humanoid users? It's just discrimination, really, isn't it? What the world has been crying out for is a good round-up of the latest smartphones by a representative of the next rung...
[May 17, 2007, 9:35]
Linux Key To Robot Development
News To spur more development of robots at the hobbyist level, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is promoting a humanoid creature named HRP-2m Choromet. This controller features some of the functions of the...
[July 17, 2006, 9:25]
Robots: Our Plastic Pals Who Are Fun To Be With?
News Robots have been in the news recently — walking robots, dancing robots, even cycling robots — and it has to be admitted that the images of small humanoid robots performing mundane tasks makes good and easy content for the newspapers and TV.
[November 10, 2005, 9:30]
A Platform For Affective Agent Research
White Papers The platform includes integration of multi-modal affective sensors with a real time inference engine, a behavior engine, and a 3d scriptable expressive humanoid agent within a graphical virtual environment.
[March 16, 2006, 23:00]
Photos: Honda Robot Runs Circles Around Competition
News Honda claims it has been pursuing research and development of a "truly useful humanoid robot which possesses both intelligence and physical capabilities" Through the coordinated use of its eye camera and the force kinesthetic) sensor on its wrists...
[December 14, 2005, 10:25]
Can A Human Love A Robot?
News Sociable humanoid robots could soon be intelligent enough to enter the household as pets or companions, but cybernetics experts dispute the prospect of meaningful relationships ever forming between humans and their artificial chums.
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Egg-shaped Robot Surfs, Talks, Walks And Dances
News PaPeRo -- short for 'Partner-type Personal Robot' -- has no humanoid features. NEC has unveiled a new superhuman robot, which can access the Internet, relay messages, walk, talk and even dance. Designed for the home, the robot is a walking, talking...
[March 23, 2001, 14:36]
2001: The Year Of The Robot
News Meanwhile, researchers at universities and big businesses made several breakthroughs in their quest to create an intelligent humanoid android. 2001 was a great year for robot lovers, even if experts did caution that anyone who actually wants to be...
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Oh, sure, the company claims it is advancing science and technology by creating a reprogrammable humanoid robot called Hoap-1. Monday 17/09/01 Computer viruses are almost entirely unpleasant. They creep up on your data, jam your Internet connection...
[September 24, 2001, 12:49]
'Minesweeping' Robot Keeps Carpets Clean
News Most companies now are no longer trying to develop humanoid companions. The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has a new mission: to seek and destroy. IRobot came out with a new line of robotic vacuum cleaners on Monday that, according to the company...
[July 13, 2004, 8:45]
Robots: It's Intel Inside
News We're talking to Samsung," which has started a humanoid product group. Intel is developing standards for building inexpensive robots that eventually could automatically inspect industrial equipment or take aerial photographs.
[March 20, 2003, 13:15]
Artificial Intelligence: DNA Sequencers To Dancing Robots
News The remarkable ability of neural networks to learn complex tasks is best demonstrated by the ability of Honda's Asimo humanoid robot to not just walk but dance, and even ride a bicycle. During the late 1980s some researchers had started to look...
[March 28, 2006, 11:40]
Japanese Scientists Want To Build Robot Child
News Kawato is an expert in brain science and has created a humanoid robot that has learnt 24 kinds of human action over three years. Japanese researchers are pressing the government to invest in an ambitious robot development scheme, with the aim of...
[August 26, 2003, 10:05]
Windows Robot Can 'see' Intruders, Call Police
News Two years ago, Fujitsu began selling Hoap-1, a taller, more humanoid robot based on the open-source Linux operating system. Fujitsu has begun sales in Japan of a Windows-powered robot which it hopes can become the foundation of more sophisticated...
[March 17, 2003, 11:38]
