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Software Fits Flexible Components
March 26, 2009 — Can the newly designed dashboard be easily installed? What paths should the assembly robot take so that the cables do not hit against the car body? A new software program simulates assembly paths and ... > full story -
Swimming Pool Game 'Marco Polo' Used To Develop Robot Control
March 25, 2009 — Scientists have used a popular kids swimming pool game to guide their development of a system for controlling moving robots that can autonomously detect and capture other moving ... > full story -
Wag The Robot? Robot Responds To Human Gestures
March 12, 2009 — Researchers have demonstrated how a robot can follow human gestures in a variety of environments -- indoors and outside -- without adjusting for lighting. The achievement is an important step forward ... > full story -
Autonomous Robot Dancer Identifies Dance And Music In Intelligent Manner
March 6, 2009 — Built from a simple Lego NXT kit, a new student-built robotic system can identify different types of dance and music in an intelligent independent manner. The next step is to create and manage ... > full story -
Small Robots Can Prepare Lunar Surface For NASA Outpost
March 2, 2009 — Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored ... > full story -
'Cyber Soccer Players' Cloned
February 24, 2009 — Scientists have managed to program clones that imitate the actions of humans playing soccer (known as football in the U.K.) on a computer. The clones learn the players’ behavior and apply this ... > full story -
Robot Playmates Monitor Emotional State Of Children With Autism
February 18, 2009 — The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system that allows a robot to monitor a ... > full story -
Babies & Robots: Infant Power Mobility On Display
February 16, 2009 — Children with mobility issues, like cerebral palsy and spina bifida, can't explore the world like other babies, because they can't crawl or walk. Infant development emerges from the thousands of ... > full story -
Why Robots Get Stuck In The Sand And How To Keep Them Going
February 10, 2009 — Today's advanced mobile robots explore complex terrains across the globe and even on Mars, but have difficulty traversing sand. A new study takes what may be the first detailed look at the problem of ... > full story -
Data Mining Promises To Dig Up New Drugs
February 3, 2009 — A robot scientist that can make informed guesses about how effective different chemical compounds will be at fighting different diseases could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry by developing ... > full story -
Robot Mine Sweeper Gets Help From Clue Game Strategies
February 2, 2009 — A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden ... > full story -
Robots To Clean Your Kitchen And Play A Game Of Hockey?
January 30, 2009 — Scientists are working on software that will enable robots to learn. It won't be long, they say, before personal robots are part of our ... > full story
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