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Floating Robots With GPS-enabled Smartphones Will Track Water Flow: UC Berkeley

Floating Robots With GPS-enabled Smartphones Will Track Water Flow: UC Berkeley

At the University of California, a group of engineers have deployed a fleet of 100 floating robots in the Sacramento River. The robots were GPS-enabled and equipped with Smartphone. The purpose of the engineers was to demonstrate the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies monitor one of the state’s most precious resources.

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Student Makes Real Life Tracking And Shooting Robot

Student Makes Real Life Tracking And Shooting Robot

A graduate student at Pennsylvania State University has built a robot which can track and shoot targets automatically. Of course, it won’t fire real bullets, instead nerf bullets at the target. The project has been developed for the the final project of a course on Advanced Mechatronics at Penn State. The student said that the design is inspired by the murderous turrets in the game Portal.

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Control A 12-Foot Tall Rideable Vaudeville Robot With Kinect And Smartphone

Control A 12-Foot Tall Rideable Vaudeville Robot With Kinect And Smartphone

The pace of technology has become so amazing that a lot of concepts, which seemed fictional just a while ago, are fast becoming real. Remember the robot you could ride and control in Avatar? Many of us had fantasized to have a similar robot of our own. And now, it would seem that the fantasy is about to become real.

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A Novel Design Keep Robots In Balance After Getting Kicked

A Novel Design Keep Robots In Balance After Getting Kicked

We have seen many Humanoid Robots. Normally, these humanoid robots fall down or can’t maintain their balance while kicked from any side. But, recently University of Tokyo’s JSK Lab researchers have developed a high-torque, high-speed robotic leg based on a novel electrical actuation system which lets a robot maintain its balance and stand even if get kicked.

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iRobot’s Military Robots Learn To Find Their Way Home

iRobot’s Military Robots Learn To Find Their Way Home

iRobot Corporation designs, develops, and markets practical robots that tackle dull, dirty and dangerous tasks for consumers, governments and industry. We have seen iRobot’s many robots that are that are engaged in home and battle ground, and serving people proudly. Now the company iRobot Corporation plans to add some new features in their upcoming robots that would help them find their way home.

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Mind-controlled Robots May Help The Paralyzed In Future

Mind-controlled Robots May Help The Paralyzed In Future

The ability to control a robot with your thoughts may sound like something from a sci-fi movie. But it may soon become reality for people with paralyzing diseases. A group of Swiss scientists have recently demonstrated how a paralyzed individual could control robots using the power of mind in order to interact with their environment. It’s something akin to what we have seen in the movie ‘Avatar’ few years before. This experiment is different from the similar earlier experiments that had been done by scientists in the USA and Germany.

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Robots Saving Lives By Detecting and Disposing Bombs

Robots Saving Lives By Detecting and Disposing Bombs

As hidden bombs or mines can’t be seen through bare eyes, they are very dangerous. It can kill or injure people especially the soldiers in the battle ground. Though implementing ‘GREMLIN’ process, a robot which is strapped with a sensor can detect a bomb in a very safe and secure way by blasting the ground with sound waves, but still the homemade bombs which is also known as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) IEDs have injured 60% of all U.S. military in Iraq and have killed more than 21,000 Iraqi civilians. However, due to these incidents, Iraqi police have bought 16 remote-controlled ‘TALON’ robots for $100,000 from QinetiQ North America.

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Futuristic Ad Shows Robot Greyhounds Racing In The Desert [Video]

Futuristic Ad Shows Robot Greyhounds Racing In The Desert [Video]

It would seem that the renowned novel, and then an adaptation on the big screen, Hunger Games has stirred quite a few creative minds. Or so it would seem when you see the new ad by Absolut Vodka. The ad attempts to show some robot Greyhounds racing in the desert and hunting after a metallic bunny.

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