News tagged with robot technology

10.69 seconds: Robot Ruby breaks Rubik's record (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot has been developed by students at Swinburne University of Technology.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

G-Speak will make the keyboard and mouse obsolete (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The mouse may soon become obsolete, with interfaces that interpret gestures rapidly approaching a stage at which they can be released for general consumers.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (20) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Japan's Honda unveils futuristic unicyle (w/ Video)

It looks a bit like a plastic figure of eight, and its Japanese designers say it could revolutionise the way we get around, in total comfort and without breaking a sweat.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 12

Japanese Robot/Humanoid Innovations Update: Mankind's Best New Friend is Getting Better (Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The combined efforts of the University of Tokyo with private sector partners and the Information and Robot Technology Research Technology Initiative have moved one-step closer to creating ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2 weblog

Robot guards being tested in South Korea

(Phys.org) -- South Korea, a nation with a self-proclaimed goal of being a leader in robotics technology has, through the Asian Forum of Corrections (AFC), begun testing the feasibility of using robots as ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 16 | with audio podcast weblog

NRL designs robot for shipboard firefighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weird and wonderful gadgets wow world's top IT fair

Water-powered clocks, eye-controlled arcade games and pole-dancing robots: this year's CeBIT tech fair, the world's biggest, showcased gadgets ranging from the useful to the downright nerdy.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Tokyo tech fair opens with robotic clapping of hands

From robotic hand-clapping arms to a device that could show tsunami alerts in the sky, Japanese technology researchers showcased their latest inventions in Tokyo Thursday.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Robot car to cut jams & prangs

Robotic car technology being developed at Oxford University that interprets its surroundings and makes decisions about where to go could eliminate the agony and cost of traffic jams.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Versatile robot rascals weigh in for battle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Defense technology company QinetiQ North America (QNA) has launched a ten-pound tyke of a robot that can operate in hostile military environments, doing reconnaissance before fighters come ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 30 | with audio podcast weblog

Equipois Inc sells lightweight robot arms to space human labor (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Ford Motor Co. truck plant in Louisville, Ky., is now the home to a super sized 800-pound robotic arms. They are currently used to bolting together parts during assembly. These arms, once ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

The Adept Quattro robot beats iPhone game 1to50 in 6.67 seconds (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people who have iPhones love them, problems with their networks aside, and users tend to spend a lot of time playing with them, but what about robots? Do they love to play iPhone games?

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Humanoids run world's first robot marathon race

Robovie-PC, a toy-sized humanoid, won the world's first full-length marathon for two-legged robots by a whisker Saturday, beating its closest rival by a single second after more than two days of racing. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 26, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Making sense of Google's seemingly kooky concepts

In its self-proclaimed drive to make the world a better place, Google has immersed itself in far more than Internet search and online ads. But driverless cars and a wind energy farm in the Atlantic Ocean? ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

New robots give absent workers presence in office

Late one July night, Mountain View, Calif., Fire Captain Verne Chestnut and his crew were checking out a fire alarm at an office building near Highway 237 when he saw movement inside. Worried that someone ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0