News tagged with service robots

Greying Japan plans robo-nurses in five years: govt

Japan plans to prepare safety rules soon for robot nurses, which are expected to serve humans within five years in the fast-greying society, a government official said Wednesday.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

CeBIT: Robot obeys commands and gestures

At the CeBIT in Hanover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology will present innovations for our everyday life in the future. At the joint stand G33 in hall ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The human touch, in robots

In 2005, when Martin Saerbeck was studying computer science at Bielefeld University in Germany, he programmed a service robot called BIRON. Mounted with a pan-tilt camera on top, BIRON was able to follow a ...

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created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0