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Popular Mechanics
February 4, 2010
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Robonaut2 Shows Real Workplace Potential For Humanoid Robots GM's goal in co-developing R2 is to eventually install similar systems in its plants, performing the kind of repetitive, ergonomically difficult jobs that might injure a human operator.   |
National Defense
November 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Family of Robotic Platforms Unveiled Four robot platforms designed to detect and handle hazardous substances. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown MIT debuts Nexi, a robot with facial expressions. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Erico Guizzo |
A Robot in the Kitchen Roboticists in Japan and South Korea are designing the household servants of the future |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Safety Snake: The Construction Worker's New Best Friend? Engineers at Virginia Tech have built the HyDRAS-Ascent II robot to climb by encircling a beam and twisting its 90-degree joints in sequence. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Why Toddlers Love Robots Entertainment robots have become sophisticated enough that they can charm toddlers for weeks, or even months, and could soon be useful to teachers as permanent educational assistants, according to research. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Watch A Robot Take On A Ping-Pong Champ In This Epic Matchup To celebrate the opening of a Shanghai factory, German robotics company Kuka pitted its one-armed ping-pong-playing robot against German table tennis champ Timo Boll. |
U.S. CPSC
November 7, 2007 |
Schylling Associates Recalls Collectable Toy Robot Due To Violation of Lead Paint Standard Surface paints on the robot contain excessive levels of lead, which violates the federal lead paint standard. |
Fast Company
November 2013
Skylar Bergl |
Go Your Own Way After Kickstarter denied his Wi-Fi -- enabled dead bolt, Cameron Robertson created his own crowdfunding platform, Selfstarter. It took off and went on to help the popular lost-and-found app Tile raise $2.6 million. |
National Defense
March 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Technologists Explore Medical Evacuation Robots There may come a day when the call of "medic!" on a battlefield will be answered by a robot rather than a corpsman. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Meat-Packing Robot The model is the fastest robot ever designed by Fanuc Robotics. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
Aleksandar Lazinica |
The Hits of Tokyo Robot Week Highlights from last month's big robotics exhibition in Japan: Almost Human: The Actroid humanoid robot... Expressive Features: Close-up of Actroid robot... Baby Seal Bot: The therapeutic robot PARO... etc. |
IndustryWeek
October 21, 2009
Jill Jusko |
How Nissan's Eporo Robot Car Came to Be Nissan again looks to nature to help solve driving challenges. |
National Defense
February 2011
Eric Beidel |
Robot Gasses Up Joint Strike Fighter Twice now a robot has successfully refueled a simulated gas tank of an F-35 fighter jet, sparking what may be a radical change in how the military services its aircraft. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007
Erik Sofge |
Inside Robina, Toyota's Tourguide Who Teaches Fellow Robots Robina's true mission is to help gather data that could benefit robots still in development at Toyota. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
iRobot Pokes Its Head Out of the Gutter A robot to clean gutters could provide a needed boost to iRobot, helping it's stock recover some of the ground it recently gave up when it lost a major battle to supply military robots to the U.S. Army. |
| AskMen.com |
Baseball-Playing Robots A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan. |
National Defense
March 2008
Stew Magnuson |
For Now, Lethal Robots Not Likely to Run on Auto-Pilot Bart Everett, technical director for robots at the Navy's space and naval warfare systems center, acknowledged that the military isn't ready for the next generation of mechanized soldiers. |
Food Engineering
January 10, 2006 |
Process automation Robot developed for the food industry. |
Popular Mechanics
April 17, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Robotic Task Force: A Two-Robot, Bomb-Defusing, Riot-Controlling, Firefighting Team Segway presented two robots at Robobusiness 2009 that can defuse dirty bombs, take on riots and fight fires, giving their operators comfortable distance from dangerous situations. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Guizzo & Ackerman |
How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker Rodney Brooks's new start-up wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding. |
