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• A Robomedic for the Battlefield

  The first 30 minutes after a battlefield injury are dire: that's when nearly 86 percent of battlefield deaths occur. Before attending to the wounded, frontline physicians have to quickly locate the casualty and extract him from the battlefield, often Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:19 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Medical robotics, snakebot, battlefield, Robotics/AI

• Tiny robots used in surgical procedures

  The robots, equipped with arms less than 1 centimeter long, can move around inside the human body and treat affected areas, echoing ideas first set out in science fiction. The small devices are able to repeat subtle movements precisely, making doctors' Read More...
  Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 11:58 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Medical robotics, Robotics/AI, Surgery

• Robot Mimics a Canine Helper A robot inspired by helper dogs could assist the disabled and the elderly

  Service dogs that open doors, switch on lights, and perform other useful tasks offer a much needed lifeline to people with disabilities. Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing robots that mimic the relationship between humans Read More...
  Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:14 AM by Editor / 1 Comments

  Tags: disabled, robot pets, Robotics/AI

• Brainy Robots To Lead To Longer Unemployment Lines?

  Robot lovers and outsourcing opponents could soon have something in common: the fear that their jobs are at stake. In the future robots will take over many tasks performed by American workers today potentially leading to increased unemployment, says Marshall Read More...
  Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:04 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Singularity Summit, Marshall Brain, Robotics/AI

• In conversation with... a computer program

  Stuck for someone to talk to? Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to fooling people into thinking it was human. The BBC's Mark Lobel catches him in a more relaxed moment. No computer Read More...
  Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008 3:24 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Turing Test, Robotics/AI, Futurism

• A helping hand, or arm

  The Kuka HA 60-3 Automatic Scale Arm knows how to avoid hitting its head on the ceiling. It also knows where the ground is. It even knows its own dimensions. But the arm is not impressive because of what it knows, but rather because of what it can learn Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:57 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Yale, architecture, Robotics/AI

• Professors teach robot to 'play ball'

  Catchbot can intercept ground balls with a .750 fielding percentage. That’s not bad…for a little leaguer. It is still far below what is expected of even an average major league infielder. But Catchbot doesn’t have an eye, a glove, or Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 6:17 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: sports, Robotics/AI

• Teaching Robots New Tricks

  Programming instructions for robots can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive task. Many roboticists believe that training robots by demonstrating new skills could speed up the process and enable the machines to perform more difficult tasks. Now researchers Read More...
  Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:00 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: helicopters, AI, Robotics/AI

• Minds of their own

  IN ONE of William Gibson’s early mind-bending stories, the protagonist suddenly needs to fly a jump jet. In the cockpit, he finds his employer has thoughtfully stashed a biochip containing all the necessary piloting skills for him to plug into his Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:17 PM by Editor / 1 Comments

  Tags: cybernetics, Robotics/AI, Futurism

• Robot builders seek a little help from sci-fi

  "It's surprising how often people make nervous jokes about robots taking over the world. I don't want to make too much of that, but I think there's something there." So says one roboticist who thinks finding out exactly how fictional Read More...
  Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 3:14 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI