The Massachusetts-based company iRobot has always tried to develop such robots that can take acre of daily chores and make our lives easy. Such a job is pool cleaning, and iRobot has made a user-friendly and powerful pool cleaning robot to handle it. iRobot will unveil the pool cleaning robot Mirra 530 at the CES 2013.
Researchers at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, is creating a special humanoid robot that will come in the form of a realistic robot boy. This futuristic robot is being called as Roboy and this robot is going to be born early next year.
Robotics have advanced to a level where today, we can interact with robots and control them through brain-machine interfaces. Most of these interfaces are still in their infancy. However, researchers at Pittsburgh University were stunned when a paralysed woman was able to control a robotic arm accurately, with her thoughts alone.
Foxconn is one of the key parts of Apple’s Asia-based supply chain. The manufacturer had earlier stated plans of employing robotic arms on the assembly line to automate the process. And now, it seems that the company is living up to those plans, reports Wall Street Journal.
Remember last year in November, Liquid Robotics® voyaged four wave glider robots in sea in order to attempt Guinness Record through travelling the longest distance across Pan Pacific from the San Francisco Bay, to Japan and Australia? After spending more than one year in water, one robot has completed 9,000 mile (16,668 kilometers) journey between San Francisco and Australia and made a world record.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has launched an inspection and maintenance robot named Maintenance Equipment Integrated System of Telecontrol Robot, in short MEISTeR, for use in Japan’s nuclear plants. The MEISTeR has two arms and is capable of collecting samples or removing obstacles from a contaminated nuclear plant, where people can’t go.
The Fukushima Nuclear plant in Japan has been somewhat of a disaster ever since the earthquakes hit the country. The entire facility is highly radioactive, and human intervention could be dangerous in some places. Toshiba has developed a special four-legged robot to do the job.
Playing games on PCs and game consoles is rarely considered anything but entertainment by most people. However, studies have repeatedly demonstrated that avid gamers have better reflexes than non-gamers. And now, a new study shows that high school gamers prove equal to professional surgeons in using robotic surgery tools.