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Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Emory University School of Medicine believe they have found the answer to... [10 Apr 2008]
Tomorrow's robots - our invisible friends?
News Developments in computing will lead to "tiny and unseen systems" to help humans carry out everyday tasks - rather than Terminator-style robots - according to the British Computer Society (BCS). BCS president Professor Nigel Shadbolt predicts that... [11 Sep 2007]
Robot-by-Voice: Experiments on Commanding an Industrial Robot Using the Human Voice
White Paper This feature can be interesting with several industrial, laboratory and clean-room applications, where a close cooperation between robots and humans is desirable. This paper reports a few results of an ongoing research project that aims to explore... [02 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter?
Comment People see intelligent machines and robots as a direct and potential threat in the near and far future. Sure the web stores and knows more than a single person or group of humans but it is purely mechanistic and certainly not creative. [19 Jun 2006]
Spreading Pheromones in Everyday Environments Through RFID Technology
White Paper Humans and robots can spread/sense pheromones by properly writing/reading RFID tags that are likely to populate everyday environments. The proposed solution is tested and evaluated via an application for object-tracking, allowing robots and humans... [14 Feb 2006]
Game over for Sony's robotic dog
News Most US manufacturers decided years ago that little market demand existed for robot companions and instead aimed their research and design efforts at robots that would perform jobs that are mundane, repetitive or too dangerous for humans. [27 Jan 2006]
Haptic Interfaces
White Paper Active haptic interfaces, such as desktop robots and exoskeletal gloves with force feedback, are more sophisticated devices that have both sensors and actuators. Haptics is used as an umbrella term covering all aspects of manual exploration and... [24 Feb 2004]
Humans win robot wars
News The online Sodarace competition, created by the Queen Mary University of London, pitched virtual robots created by humans against those designed by artificial intelligence. Human innovation has fought off competition from robots created using... [28 Nov 2003]
Press '1' for the success of LloydsTSB IVR system
News LloydsTSB is finding that when it comes to banking, customers like talking to robots rather than humans, with the bank today announcing it has handled over 70 million calls with interactive voice response technology (IVR). [25 Nov 2003]
Robot child funding sought by Japanese researchers
News Most of today's robots operate with a program written by humans. Japan's technology in robotics has reached the level where robots can copy the human walk, as seen in Asimo, the robot created by Honda. [27 Aug 2003]
Robots - the more human the better, study finds
News Bickmore said in the report that such mimicry can indeed help build rapport between humans and computerised characters or robots. Sometimes people are afraid of robots," he said. Imitation is not just the best form of flattery - it's also good... [02 Jun 2003]
Google's porn filtering technology shabby, study says
News But the company challenged the methodology of the study, saying that some of the sites are missing because their webmasters employ a device called the 'robots.txt' file, which is designed to limit automated web crawlers in various ways. [11 Apr 2003]
Robots need to get a life, says Sony scientist
News Steels believes the next step is for robots to learn by forming concepts they can swap with other robots, thereby develop their own "minds", just as humans do. A researcher says that the next wave of robots will be able to interact with one another... [16 Aug 2002]
The Ovum View: Speech - IT meets telephony?
Comment A debt collection service has found that robots are now achieving higher rates of collection than human-based systems because most debtors are people who are embarrassed by their shortage of cash rather than people who deliberately avoid payment. [07 Jan 2002]
AI - it's been a long, long time coming
Comment Robots are already capable of construction, manufacturing, fire fighting and other dangerous and difficult work. By 2030, virtual reality will be created inside our nervous system by nanobots which are blood cell-sized robots, travelling through... [21 Sep 2001]
