According to a new study it has been found while older people really do enjoy having the help of robots in household chores like cleaning the kitchen, doing laundry and taking out the trash but they prefer humans rather than robots for more personal tasks like getting dressed or bathing.
Most of the cutting-edge robots that we have recently seen have wheels to help them move around. However, Bossa Nova Robotics has introduced a research platform called mObi which uses a giant ball instead of wheels to keep itself in balance.
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Recently you might have seen cricket player Kevin Pietersen as well as West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle after winning World Twenty20 dancing in “Gangnam Style (강남 스타일).” But why would human only dance in “Gangnam” style, why not robot? You heard me right. Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) have released a video of their robot dancing in “Gangnam Style”. Do you want to see how the robot dances in “Gangnam Style”?
Last year robot builder Dr. Guero (aka Masahiko Yamaguchi) stunned everyone with his bicycle riding Primer-V2 humanoid robot. And this year he’s back again to astonish us all with another spectacular humanoid robot named Primer-V4. The humanoid robot Primer-V4 can walk on a tightrope! Check the details inside.
There are many satellites in space whose fuel has about to come an end. Besides some satellites need to be repaired. So to repair and refuel the satellites without bringing them back to Earth, space agency NASA is developing a service robot. The robot will go to space, refuel the satellites and if needed will repair them.
Wheelchairs can help physically disabled people moving from one place to another, but usually it can’t help them to climb stairs. And that’s the biggest substantial limitation of wheelchairs. But as we live in the world of technology, so no barrier should stay in front of us for long. To solve the wheelchair’s limitation, Japanese researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) near Tokyo have designed a robotic wheelchair that can convert its wheels into legs when needed, walk up steps and turn a perfect circle.
Creating beautiful Japanese Calligraphy is an art that requires years of practice to master. But what if a robot could mimic the exact hand movements of the artist and replicate the masterpieces like a photocopy machine? That’s the idea behind the Motion Copy System. The system is being developed by researchers at Keio University in Tokyo.
Slowly but steadily, robots are entering in our world to replace humans from exploring hazardous and difficult-to-access work. But stiil due to lack of intelligence, they can’t interact with the surrounding environments like humans. If today’s most sophisticated robot is trapped behind a jammed door in a burning room, it would probably not know what to do or how to locate and use objects in the room to climb over any debris, try to open the door, and escape the building. But, in this situation, if MacGyver were there then he might have used his shirt to filter the smoke, craft an explosive from a paperclip and strand of hair to blow that jammed door open. However now, a team of Georgia Tech University researchers hopes to change that. The team aims to build such a robot that can work out how to use nearby objects to solve problems or escape threats. And guess what? US Navy is funding for making this robot.