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Japanese baby-bot with runny nose teaches parenting skills (w/ Video)
It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby.
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Roboticist creates Hugvie - Huggable vibrating pillow smartphone accessory
(Phys.org) -- Japanese robot designer Hiroshi Ishiguro is fast becoming a sort of roboticist for the people, in Japan anyway. Instead of terminator style robots meant to do a lot of serious work or to serve on the battlefield, ...
The moaning mouth bot learns to sing (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of you may recall the moaning mouth bot. This bot, which is basically a disembodied mouth that first came to the public attention for making a series of moaning noises that were truly ...
Robots get their groove on in CA student orchestra
They can defuse bombs, help decontaminate nuclear power plants, even vacuum the living room floor without bashing into the furniture or knocking over a vase.
May 13, 2011 |
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Home appliances get 'smart' at CES
Mobile phones aren't the only things getting smart. Home appliances are too.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 08, 2011 |
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Japanese baby-bot to shed light on human learning (w/ Video)
Japanese researchers have created a baby robot designed to simulate the behavior and development of a real infant in an effort to better understand how humans grow up.
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots
(AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.
Dec 05, 2009 |
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Japan child robot mimicks infant learning
The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it's slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship.
Apr 05, 2009 |
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Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest
Robots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," ...
May 12, 2008 |
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