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• Prepping Robots to Perform Surgery

  WHAT do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:00 AM by clementlawyer / 1 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots, Robotic surgery, Medical robotics

• 'Guessing' robots navigate faster

  Robots that use educated guesswork to build maps of their surroundings are being tested by Purdue University researchers. The approach could let them navigate more easily through complex environments such as unfamiliar buildings.... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:44 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots

• 'Almost Human' by Lee Gutkind: Scientists pursue the goal of robots that think

  "Making Robots Think" is an entertaining peek behind the scenes at engineers of the groundbreaking Robotics Institute, much of whose research is funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Department. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 12:56 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots

• Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse, Protect Humans

  The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots and vice versa. The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be pro... Read more
  Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 12:45 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots, Personhood, South Korea

• Salamander robot uses 'spinal cord' to move

  A robotic salamander with an electric "spinal cord" that controls both its walking and swimming has been developed by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It could be a forerunner of robots with movements coordinated by an art... Read more
  Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 1:53 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 1 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots

• Top tech movies: Creepy-crawly climbing bots and more

  A new film shows researchers at Case Western University using robots equipped with a cross between wheels and legs ("whegs") to test a new material that mimics the gravity-defying feet of geckos and insects. Another clip shows a flying robot with ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:14 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots

• Bye Swarmbots, Hello Swarmanoids

  A team at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium is embarking on a 42-month research project to build and test a 60-strong swarm of small, autonomous robots -- the swarmanoid -- capable of collaborating in 3-D environments.... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:36 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

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• Vision-body link tested in robot experiments

  "Embodied cognition" experiments involving real and simulated robots suggest that the relationship between physical movement and sensory input could be crucial to developing more intelligent machines. ... Read more
  Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:53 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Artificial intelligence, Robotics, Robots

• Attack of the killer prototype robots

  Intel and Carnegie Mellon University are trying to see if millions of tiny robots can work together to create a shape-shifting intelligent fabric that could model any 3-D object and would change shape under software control. The "Dynamic Physical ... Read more
  Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 12:13 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots, Smart materials

• The Robots Are Coming!

  Forbes presents the masters of robotic innovation--entrepreneurs and researchers who are fusing advances in biomechanics, software, sensor technology, materials science and computing to create new generations of robotic assistants.... Read more
  Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:04 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Robots