robot

Photos: Robot cars go head to head

News Stanford University's robot, Junior, left the starting gate shortly after 8am PDT Saturday with a few jerks, but then it seemed to drive smoothly. DARPA Director Tony Tether said he was "holding his breath" to see robot meet robot on the course for...

Tags: force, air, base, drivers

5 November 2007, 10:06

Robot doctors lend their heads to surgeons

News It might look like a Dalek with a TV jammed on its head but the robot prowling the wards at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington aims to medicate, rather than exterminate. The robot -- dubbed Sister Mary -- is part of a "remote presence" trial being...

10 February 2006, 9:53

Robot builder: no tea breaks, no wolf-whistles

News Japanese bridge builder Kawada Industries is enlisting the services of a humanoid robot designed to work on construction sites and in other risky places. The HRP-3P stands 1.5m tall and weighs about 60kg

12 September 2005, 11:34

Robot car tech shifts into high gear

News For Stanford University, the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge robot desert race and its $2m prize, the goal has long been to make vehicles safer for the road. Vehicles powered with artificial-intelligence software and sporting the ability to...

19 October 2005, 10:31

'Don't shout at the robot!'

News While the Aibo sold for $1,900 (£1,000), the Pleo tag is closer to the price of two of the more successful robot products on the market: the $99 Robosapien toys from WowWee and the floor-cleaning robots from iRobot, which are priced from $99 to $400.

22 November 2006, 9:43

Microscopic robot moves like a caterpillar

News Researchers at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire have invented a robot so small that an entire army of 200 of them could march across an M&M. The prototype robot, which measures 60 microns wide and 250 microns long, is the smallest untethered...

16 September 2005, 10:15

Photos: In tune with the robot guitar

News When guitar maker Gibson USA announced it would launch its self-tuning Les Paul Studio electric, aka the Robot Guitar, on 7 December, some guitar players resisted the idea of using a machine instead of their ear when tuning to a desired pitch, as...

Tags: body, credit, self, libraries

27 November 2007, 9:29

The all-singing, all-dancing robot vacuum cleaner

News I might log into a Web page and see what the robot sees and be able to drive the robot via my Web page. It's early in the robot market, but sales over the last two years have been promising. The US Army has deployed PackBot, a reconnaissance robot...

24 June 2005, 10:23

Driving lessons for robot racers

News Junior is still in the development phase, but the robot is already far ahead of its parent in terms of technology. The Junior prototype, for example, has a new, high-definition lidar detection system by Velodyne, which spins around to give the...

19 February 2007, 10:03

Robot guitar holds a tune

News Help is at hand from what is described as the world's first robot guitar -- an electric guitar that not only keeps itself in tune even after string changes but also allows players to access six nonstandard tunings at the push of a button.

14 November 2007, 9:07

Robot Wars

News Twenty-five finalist robots put up their fists to knock one another out of a ring on Saturday, showing off some of the latest moves in the world's biggest robot market. Hundreds of spectators clapped as robot Arichyon, clad in Christmas lights...

Tags: christmas, companies, money, consumer

4 December 2007, 10:02

Photos: Racing robot cars

News The Ben Franklin Racing Team, based in Philadelphia, has turned a silver-gray Toyota Prius hybrid into a robot whose electronics can draw on the car's battery power and drive more efficiently than other cars.

Tags: race, racing, science, cars

5 October 2007, 11:06

Photos: Robot gets the teas in

News That's the best part about a robot. You probably won't see a robo-barista at your local Starbucks anytime soon, but in Japan a new generation of robots is in training to serve tea. In a demonstration this week at Tokyo University, a pair of...

5 March 2007, 10:32

NASA robot prepares for desert quest

News A three-year NASA project to test a 'search-for-life' robot will soon come to an end, but not before one last trip to the Chilean desert. Zoe', a solar-powered rover that resembles a go-cart, is a prototype of an artificially intelligent astro...

11 August 2005, 9:54

Photos: Pleo, the sensitive robot

News It's a robot, coming out in the second quarter of 2007, that exhibits emotional reactions to its surroundings. It also makes a sort of mooing sound, which is appropriate given that the robot is modelled after the Camarasaurus, a cow-like dinosaur...

22 November 2006, 9:13