AIST's HRP4: Sci-Fi-Like Household Helper Robots Have Arrived You've seen plenty of robots and androids in the news, but you've probably never seen anything as astonishing as HRP4, which promises to be cheap, powerful, and the most sci-fi-like bot built to date. AIST and Kawada Industries just revealed the new humanoid machine, and by making it look "athletic" they've also turned HRP4 into a real-world version of the fictional life-assisting robots you've seen in countless sci-fi movies (the older generation of 'droids in Will Smith's I, Robot movie for one). He's five feet tall and weighs just 86 pounds, including battery. Bipedal android robotics seems to have evolved swiftly enough that new machines don't need props like Asimo's chunky battery backpack. Nevertheless, HRP4 has 34 degrees of freedom in movement, including full arm articulation and simple hand moves, which give it a grasping force of 1.1 pounds. Check out HRP4 in the video below--it's eight minutes, but worth it. Did you spot the potential here?
L’avenir de la programmation (2/6) : La programmation pour les non-programmeurs Par Rémi Sussan le 24/05/11 | 10 commentaires | 13,345 lectures | Impression Programmer, c’est difficile : penser logiquement, par étapes, sans en sauter aucune et en envisageant toutes les possibilités de ses actions demande une grande attention, une grande rigueur. Mais à ces complications s’ajoute encore l’apprentissage d’une syntaxe extrêmement ardue, qui ne supporte pas la moindre faute, à la virgule près. Sans compter que ladite syntaxe nous prend à rebrousse-poil. Un autre obstacle, peut-être moins évident, est l’absence de résultats immédiatement gratifiants pour les débutants. Les langages visuels L’une des premières tâches de simplification consisterait donc à mettre au point des langages sans possibles erreurs de syntaxe. Un des produits phares du genre, Alice, élaboré à l’université de Carnegie Mellon, permet de créer très rapidement des petits films interactifs en 3D. Les enfants du Smalltalk Kay ne renonça pas pour autant à faire du Smalltalk un langage “pour tous”.
Beyond Gray Droids: Domestic Robot Design for the 21st Century Beyond Gray Droids: Domestic Robot Design for the 21st Century workshop in Cambridge, UK on 1 September 2009 at HCI 2009 Overview: Each year, robots are entering domestic environments in increasing number. By 2012, it's estimated that 7.8 million robots will be in domestic settings. These robots are intended to help with household chores, act as home health aids, and serve as companions and entertainers for people. However, because the field of domestic robotics is birthed from industrial robotics, many of these robots in the home still look and behave like they belong in a factory. Domestic robots present unique design challenges that are very different from those of industrial robots. Another challenge is with regard to presenting appropriate, dynamic interaction modalities that are inclusive of all users. A third design challenge is with regard to robot appearance. In order to start address these design challenges, it may be helpful to engage in several steps: Workshop Topics:
mental_floss Blog » Robot Orders Scone, Leaves Big Tip Today's completely true weirdness: a telepresence robot orders a scone from a coffee shop in Mountain View, California. The robot is given the scone, pays for it, and turns out to be a good tipper. Now, part of what's remarkable about the following video is the whole bit about the robot (which is completely controlled by a person -- that person is visible in a screen on the robot's "face" and speaks with coffee shop patrons and employees via a mic/speaker/camera combo). So we're not talking about autonomous scone-ordering robots just yet. But the more remarkable thing, to me, is how people in the coffee shop react to the robot. This particular video starts a little slowly (as the videographer apparently hears from a friend that a robot is in line, and the videographer dashes to the coffee shop).
Aldebaran Launches NAO Next Gen Aldebaran Robotics has launched NAO Next Gen, a new version of a robot used by universities around the world. Aside from some new colors, NAO Next Gen doesn’t look any different from the previous version, but boasts upgraded performance in key areas. The new 1.6GHz Intel processor can handle two HD video streams simultaneously, allowing it to recognize objects and faces faster. New speech recognition software (called Nuance) can sift out the most important words in a spoken sentence to produce more accurate responses. And the company has optimized NAO’s walking gait, which increases its speed dramatically. Other features include smart torque control and self-collision avoidance. Video : We’re not sure how this will affect existing NAO developers. The upgraded performance is nice, but after several years of development and increasing competition from the likes of the Robotis DARwIn-OP , we expected a new version to be a more dramatic overhaul. [source: Aldebaran Robotics ]
Inside our right (and left) brains Paro Therapeutic Robot ･DARwIn-LC Virginia Tech’s RoMeLa unveiled a cute new robot at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore. It’s called DARwIn-LC (Low Cost) and was featured on a poster near the Robotis Bioloid booth with the headline “Open Platform Humanoid Robot”. It sports 20 degrees of freedom actuated by Robotis AX-18F (18kg/cm torque) servos. Thanks to an NSF grant, the robot will be manufactured along with its sibling, DARwIn-HP (High Performance), to be distributed to 11 of Virginia Tech’s partner universities, and may even be available through Robotis itself. Video (Mirror): I think they really nailed the design of this one. [source: I, Bioloid] Update June 30th 2010: Dr. We want to form a community of DARwIn-LC users to share new ideas for improvement, hack it, etc. and use the robot for research, education, outreach, and of course, an easy entry point for the RoboCup humanoid division. Media: Image credit:Tan Junming Clarence
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reaDIYmate Chapit, your new Domestic Robot Today the Raytron company presents a small new robot named Chapit which is an “intelligent” companion helping you for some basic tasks like turning the light on or turning on electric or electronic devices (television… air conditioning system…)one of the biggest advantages of the Chapit is the capacity to recognize a man, woman or child without any programmation. The base model comes with a vocabulary of about 100 words only but it is possible to teach it up to 10.000. It also features an internet connection allowing distant control.