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Personal Robotics, Mobile Manipulation Personal robot applications enable people to make themselves more productive at home and at work. PR2 combines the mobility to navigate human environments and the dexterity to grasp and manipulate objects in those environments. Community PR2 allows you to concentrate on your specific field, while taking advantage of the work of specialists in other areas. The PR2 hardware platform and 1000+ software libraries enable you, as a member of the community, to focus on new capabilities. The common platform also lets you easily share your research results in a way that is reproducible. Freedom to Innovate The PR2 is an open platform. PR2 is designed to be durable so that you can experiment with new ideas and applications directly on the robot. Support pr2support.willowgarage.com Questions: Active community mailing list backed up by Willow Garage’s engineering team. Services: Formal ticketing system for targeted troubleshooting.

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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.

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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. After some initial awkwardness, everyone managed to pull out a camera phone and record the scene.

Projet robotique : historique et évolution du projet Romeo Qu'est-ce que le projet ROMEO ? Romeo est un robot de recherche issu de la collaboration de laboratoires et d'industriels comme Aldebaran.Ce robot humanoïde de 140cm est destiné à approfondir les recherches sur l’assistance aux personnes âgées ou en perte d’autonomie. Sa taille a été pensée pour qu’il puisse ouvrir une porte, monter un escalier ou encore attraper des objets sur une table. Historique du projet Débuté en janvier 2009, le projet ROMEO visait quatre objectifs principaux et complémentaires. Ils avaient pour but de couvrir plusieurs aspects majeurs dans le développement de la robotique en France :

Pillenklok helpt medicijngebruikers De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. We maken een onderscheid tussen functionele cookies en cookies voor het beheer van webstatistieken, advertenties en social media. De cookies bevatten geen persoonsgegevens en zijn dus niet tot een individu te herleiden. Met de cookies voor advertenties en social media worden mogelijk door derden gegevens verzameld buiten de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. Robot Pepper : robot intelligent, robot SoftBank "Pepper essaie de comprendre vos émotions. Si vous riez aux éclats, il saura que vous êtes de bonne humeur. Si vous froncez les sourcils, Pepper comprendra que quelque chose vous tracasse

Windoro Window-Cleaning Robot Demo In our best robots of CES roundup last week, it appears that we left out an interesting offering: the Windoro window-cleaning robot from South Korea. That's right. This robot wants to do for your windows what Roomba and Scooba do for your floors. It's quite a sight to see this gizmo magically crawling on glass. But there's no magic, of course. There's magnetism.

Robot Nao : robot de compagnie, robot intelligent Parlez, il vous répond !Demandez-lui quelque chose et il le fait ! Vous pourrez par exemple demander à NAO d'apprendre les tables de multiplication à vos enfants, de vous réveiller le matin, de surveiller votre maison en journée ou de vous apprendre de nouvelles choses dès que vous le demandez. Vous n'avez plus besoin de clavier, d'ordinateur ou de souris pour communiquer avec la technologie. Il suffit de lui parler et il vous répond ! Un nouveau membre de la familleImaginez maintenant qu'il puisse apprendre à détecter vos humeurs pour avoir toujours le bon mot, qu'il sache reconnaître les membres de votre famille par leur prénom, qu’il ait appris de vous vos goûts musicaux, culinaires ou cinématographiques.

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. Of course the Chapit is far from an ASIMO but at the same time it appears to be better than a Nabaztag for example.

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