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Robot Recess Gravity Ball
Downloads Race the clock to destroy cylinders on 12 levels by hitting a gravity-defying ball with your robot. High scores saved for each level and for each of 3 different playgrounds. Fun for all ages. Progress bar to show your current time against the best...
[December 6, 2004, 13:29]
Robot orangutan to simulate human learning
News Grand hopes that developing a robot with basic learning capabilities may lead to higher developments and eventually provide some insight into the way that the human brain works. The Somerset-based scientist says he hopes to have Lucy at a stage...
[August 30, 2000, 7:30]
Robot-busting ploy 'shuts out the blind'
News An increasingly popular robot-busting technique shuts out the visually impaired, according to a standards group. The problem, the W3C warned in its draft, "Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests," is that the visually impaired can't...
[November 7, 2003, 14:15]
Robot Control Using Genetic Programming
White Papers This paper will discuss a software application named "Abe Howell's GP Robot Control", which utilizes genetic programming (GP) to evolve a suitable obstacle avoidance program for a low-cost mobile robot equipped with Bluetooth connectivity.
[October 18, 2005, 3:00]
Robot frogs land Glasgow man in court
News A Glasgow man has been fined £150 for disturbing his neighbours with an army of ferocious robot frogs he uses to defend his home. Sony's robot puppy, AIBO and a similar lower-budget offering from Sega called the Poo-Chi have been hugely popular...
[February 9, 2000, 13:56]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery
News UK researchers have created a 'robot scientist' that they believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings. While most robots are built to repeat a given task many times over, this robot, named 'Adam', was...
[April 3, 2009, 16:55]
Robot 'guard dog' sniffs out Wi-Fi holes
News A strange two-wheeled creature was skimming through the halls of the Alexis Park Hotel on Sunday -- a robot that sniffs out network vulnerabilities. Created by two members of a loose association of security experts called the Shmoo Group, the robot...
[August 5, 2003, 10:00]
Robot sent to Chernobyl
News A team of government researchers, academic organizations and private industries has developed a robot that will be sent to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine to help detect problems. The robot, which uses technology from Silicon Graphics...
[May 28, 1999, 6:29]
Bebot - Robot Synth
Downloads Bebot: part synthesizer, part animated robot. Touching the screen causes the robot to move and make sounds controlled by your movements. Play it like a musical instrument, or just have fun watching the robot and making noises with your fingers.
[May 21, 2009, 23:04]
Robot dog walks into fewer walls
News The company's Entertainment Robot America division on Thursday announced that the ERS-7 model of Aibo is more responsive to voice and touch commands than previous models. This latest generation design is a result of significant evolutionary...
[September 5, 2003, 10:15]
Robot Panic II
Downloads Game objective: you are a factory worker and your job is to complete the unfinished robots until they reach a robot checker. A complete robot must have: body, left hand, right hand, head. How to play: to drop a robot part you must stand on it by...
[February 21, 2006, 20:57]
Robot race draws crowd
News Intel and a group of start-ups are also looking at hammering out standards for robot construction. Although the term "robot" for most people conjures up images of Dr Smith's droll sidekick from "Lost in Space," they are becoming a major focus for...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
Sony's robot runs away
Talkback yes, i just wanted to know when this robot is going to go on sale and for how much.
[December 22, 2003, 20:24]
Sony gets emotional with lion cub AIBO robot
News When used with the AIBO Life application the pet will act like an autonomous robot, by behaving independently and making its own decisions. Sony claims that new software has improved the robot's ability to learn from its environment and develop its...
[October 12, 2000, 11:18]
Your laptop can be a beer-fetching robot
News Evolution Robotics announced on Tuesday that it has begun selling the ER1, a kit that turns an average laptop into a rolling, seeing robot. Upcoming accessories will include a "gripper arm" that allows the robot to grasp and carry objects; in a...
[October 2, 2002, 13:39]
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]
Transforming a laptop into a robot
News Sure, Aibo the robot dog is cute, but can he fetch you a beer? The company is at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this week demonstrating a series of "personal robot systems" that can transform an average laptop PC into an intelligent robot.
[May 23, 2002, 8:59]
Egg-shaped robot surfs, talks, walks and dances
News 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 computer which performs a range of electronic tasks such as retrieving your...
[March 23, 2001, 14:36]
Linux key to robot development
News What the world needs now, according to a Japanese research group, is a low-cost programmable robot. This controller features some of the functions of the humanoid robot software platform OpenHRP, which has helped give the robot movements such as...
[July 17, 2006, 9:25]
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]
