and more known for covering space robots green energy and futuristic gadgets you might mistake for props in a science fiction movie.
One team built a scanner to convert graffiti into sound another a robotic drum kit
It consisted of a robotic drum kit and two discs outfitted with object-detecting cameras.
But if you send a robot to mine the surface and send the minerals back you would own the area in
and it's a robot. Levandowski backs out of his suburban driveway in the usual manner.
It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy. Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans
The drones are designed flying robots to be small enough to pollinate a flower (they weigh just 80 milligrams.
robot bees! Robot bees! That's pretty great. Totally crazy to think that technology can be as efficient as the natural bee in pollination.
Sure use inefficient technological bees in pollinating GMO crops with temporary pesticide herbicide and insect resistance and add a boatload of money to the cost of growing them.
Next they'll hybridize with African robot bees and we'll have ROBOT KILLER BEES everywhere.
This idea is similar to the Pet Rock. Utter nonsense! until I saw the check of $7004 I did not believe that my friends brother could actualie making money in their spare time online..
#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
Its robotic arm moves briskly: It hovers lowers and then repositions a pair of syringes over six petri dishes.
In the film set in the 23rd century an automated pod with two robotic arms uses cells from a severed human hand to print
#Watch This Gentle Robot Handle Tofu Without Breaking It Packaging tofu requires a gentle touch.
So engineers at manufacturing company Lands Work created a robot to do the job. The'bot uses a camera to scan for the size
using the robot to (carefully but efficiently) package other foods like seafood eggs and meat.
Diginfo Computerize automated electro mechanical manufacturing does not a robot make lol . what Philip answered
Perhaps Iran applies the word stealth in liberal fashiion as Popsci uses the word robot lol.@
I've been seeing articles about micro robots the size of flies great invention. How about manufacturing them by the zillions
Micro robots versus the bugs! Heck you could even use them for pollination!..If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live...
sex with robots. To be fair the poll also asked Americans about robots in the military which is like a legitimate question given our recent discovery that we can have robots shoot people as well as questions about robotic (autonomous) cars and robots in the workplace.
These are all more pressing issues given that those are all here and affecting people right now.
Google and various automakers are testing autonomous cars robots have a huge effect on the workplace
and did we mention that we're shooting people in Afghanistan and Pakistan with robots?
whether sex with a robot constitutes infidelity. 42 percent said it would 31 percent said it would not.
Would you bonk a robot? Related: Would you be okay if your partner bonked a robot?
Well if it looked like Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell...Millions are doing it already-vibrators.
I wouldn't want to stop any of my partners from having sex with a robot.
Try surveying the robots the percentage would be even lower! Just look at the photo again:
The Robotic Chicken Butcherif you've ever wondered how boneless chicken parts end up that way take a peek inside one of the 4000
If ever there was a job for a robot this is it. But teaching a machine to carve poultry is difficult.
If a robot splinters a bone it contaminates the meat. If it leaves too much flesh behind it costs its owner money.
Later this year a team from the Geor gia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta will put the finishing touches on an autonomous robotic chicken butcher.
and the coracoid bones. 3) Calculate (Not shown in illustration) In a production model that the Georgia Tech researchers plan to build two robotic arms work on opposite sides of the conveyor belt one arm for each side of the bird.
Equipped with a 3-D map of the incoming chicken the robots calculate a cutting trajectory accurate to within three millimeters.
So by calculating the dimensions of one body region the machines can deduce the dimensions of all the other body parts. 4) Slice To remove the wings from the breast meat the robotic arms slice into the chicken with a knife at the collarbone move toward the shoulder cut through the shoulder joint
Knife Arm The business end of the robot is an industrial arm similar to those used to weld
The big challenge is teaching the robot to adjust its behavior in real time to account for all the variation in different birds says Ai-Ping Hu senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
and signals the robot to sharpen it. Brain (Not shown in illustration) To help the robot calculate the cutting path algorithms compare 3-D maps of each chicken to a database of dozens of different body types.
The machine also learns on the fly and gets smarter with each new chicken it carves. Calculations per Second to Render a Map of the Bird:
2ã¢Â#ÂESTIMATED Cost of Each Robot Butcher: $350000pounds of Chicken Consumed Per capita in the U s. Each year:
and robot will merge to become one! Brahahahaaaa HA HA! Vegetables feel pain. But they don't have tiny little faces to show us the horror that they experience before we kill them.
Wielding Sharp Knife Robot Debones 500 Hams Per Hour (Robot of the Week) What could possibly go wrong?
v=Urvfcqghslqkuka is doing this with pigs already http://www. kuka-robotics. com/canada/en/solutions/solutions search/L r280 050528 westfleisch. htman overhead conveyor keeps the carcasses moving continuously through the slaughtering line at a speed of 170
As the robots have to track this motion they are synchronized with the conveyor by means of the conveyor software.
The calculated coordinates are sent to the robot controller by the PC evaluation software which generates individual cutting data for each carcass.
The controller then calculates the corresponding robot trajectories. The first robot in the line a KR 30 equipped with a double shackle then cuts off the pigs front feet at a defined position.
The second KR 30 suspended from the ceiling uses a special cutting tool to remove the rectum.
I am not the robot login you refer to. I am new and different. Take care!;@
@vanderleunas a matter of fact I agree with anyicon (formerly known as robot. It can make a rat sterile
What about robots and how hard it is for them to walk see a puddle and jump over it.
Basic Editor-101 question@author-Shaunacy Robot or any Popsci editor: As an intern or submitting author does Popsci allow you the reporter to pick the headline of your stories
Really Robot...Priceless??The way Popsci is headed there may not be a login left for them to tamper with.
@Robot--I think the way I stated the 3000-year record was misleading. The tree-ring record actually goes back 12000 years
They are pissed already off our little robots trails are leaving all over their pretty landscape...sheesh!
HAHA Robot Liars should not prosperlying is the only way to succeed in the US
The rocket carrying the robotic probe called Luna-Glob will be the first set off from Russia's new Far east launchpad the Vostochny cosmodrome.
and robots settle there. Besides it will give the humans a place to stay after the robots take over the Earth.
When I read the title I thought they were doing a manned mission. It would be good to see people leave the confines of low orbit for the first time in 50 years.
This is what robots should be doing there about now. Otherwise we'll never get there in a reasonable amount of time.
I literally*just*created an account right now to reply to this. everyones mad at robot...
i haven't read all robot's posts so i don't know either way. we all take life waaay too seriously lol. let's cut the doucheryi wish they'd give a list of food items
Not everybody is mad at robot Personally ive always enjoyed his lil comments tardbot is nothing more then an online bully.
I commend Robot for showing us that retaliation here is needed not. I hope your hot chocolate is the best Robot you deserve it. whateves man!
leave Robot alone...its not her/his fault if s/he's born that way!
btw which European scientists are we talking about here popsci? how do we know that your not making up this experiment huh?=
or so) by a team of artists and engineers the Telegarden let user-community members manipulate a robotic arm set over a tabletop garden.
The giant alien robots in Michael Bay s Transformers franchise aren built t in factories. They re grown in egglike pods
The Transformers in other words seem to be products of evolutionary robotics a burgeoning field of research that applies biological principles to the creation and behavior of robots.
The computer will evolve machines for us that have shapes we would never have thought of says Josh Bongard an evolutionary roboticist at the University of Vermont.
In other words robots that evolve whether by gestating in eggs or via genetic algorithms could benefit from the same diversity
Self-reproducing robots would by definition be a runaway process he says. They could surprise us in unpleasant ways.
The fourth installment in the Transformers series continues the story of a race of robots at war with itself.
Godzilla clashes with even more malevolent titans the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles fight crime in (and under) New york city and the X-men send Wolverine back in time to prevent a robot uprising.
When push comes to shove we d shove robots onto the front lines. If we were forced into some sort of Apollo moment by a massive war the majority of the efforts would go toward unmanned ground vehicles
and robotics Mathaudhu says. A robot army might be less versatile than a living one
but the bots would excel as cannon fodder during the early stages of conflict providing intel on alien weapons
The hesitation to put a soldier in the field against an unknown threat would be countered by robotic technology Mathaudhu says.
and sends them to robotic wood or steel routers which shape panels with millimeter precision.
The robots you know tomorrow are going to look like nothing you know today. More likely they will look like the animals around you.
Charles Ellington a Cambridge zoologist and former Weis-Fogh student built a robotic wing that could precisely mimic the movements of a hawk moth.
At the University of California at Berkeley neurobiologist Michael Dickinson built a robotic fruit-fly wing that likewise mimicked a fly s natural motion
Dickinson and electrical engineer Ron Fearing won a $2. 5-million DARPA grant in 1998 to apply these principles to a fly-size robot.
On the workbench sat a 60-milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan and a thorax roughly the size of a housefly.
and watched as the wings of his tiny creation began to vibrate lifting the robot into the air for several seconds.
Wood has pioneered microscale robotic flight; other researchers have used flapping-wing dynamics to reduce the size of aerial vehicles capable of carrying payloads.
Techject a company that spun off from work done at the Georgia Institute of technology recently unveiled a robotic dragonfly with a six-inch wingspan.
And then there s Dickinson who initiated the project to build the robotic fly. Today he runs a lab at the University of Washington and works with advanced imaging systems to study insect flight.
The latest weapon in combatting climate changeas U n. climate talks continue in Warsaw soon a flying insect-like robot developed by scientists at Wake Forest University will give an unprecedented look at Peru's tropical cloud
Researchers received funding from the National Science Foundation and Wake Forest's Center for Energy Environment and Sustainabilitydrones Deliver a Bird's eye Viewone of the researchers'robots a copter drone relies on eight small propeller units
Their second robot resembles a small airplane. Launched like a javelin it uses a single electric motor
Both robots are capable of taking pictures of an object from multiple viewpoints. They then use that data to build three-dimensional models that can be studied in the lab. It works in a way that is really quite similar to how a human uses their eyes he said.
and up-close imaging systems mounted to robotic arms. The process of analyzing soil images can be daunting particularly
and resolution of time-lapse photography with the use of a novel robotic camera mount and software--enabling the detailed visualization of plant movements across a wide panoramic view.
and colleagues at the Robotics Institute Carnegie mellon University the Gigapan EPIC Pro is a robotic camera system that makes it possible to create time-lapse sequences of panoramas that also allow the viewer to zoom in at an incredible level of detail e g. from a landscape
Using a robotic mount high-resolution images were captured across a panorama and stitched together with software developed by Sargent
which are sorted by robots and fingerprinted on sequencing machines and pseudochromosomal molecules are reassembled using powerful computers and algorithms.
Piface devices sit on top of the Raspberry Pi to control the real world--powering motors controlling robots triggering cameras
and when using a robot milking system in the worst-case scenario when a cow has failed to enter the robot for milking
or when it has failed several milking attempts in its history. Kauppi's doctoral dissertation sought to identify critical points in cow behaviour pointing to deterioration in the cow's health.
The study also investigated alterations in cow behaviour in relation to successful completion of robotic milking procedure as well as in dairy management practices
The findings could lead to the development of robots that can gather and herd livestock crowd control techniques
and collecting or guiding groups of exploring robots'says King. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Natural Environment Research Council.
Last December online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery suggesting that fleets of flying robots might serve as autonomous messengers that shuttle packages to customers within 30 minutes of an order.
Agha-mohammadi will present details of the group's approach in September at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Chicago.
#University students developing robotic gardening technologyfor more than a half-century NASA has made the stuff of science fiction into reality.
Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep-space habitat tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.
It is a concept for producing edible plants during long-term missions to destinations such as Mars. Heather Hava who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences explains that the goal is to have robots do much of the monotonous tasks saving time
The robots and plants are networked together and the SPOTS have the ability to monitor their fruit's
ROGR is a robot on wheels has a forklift to move SPOTS a mechanical arm for manipulating the plants
The ROGR robots can visit a specific plant to deliver water or to locate and grasp a fruit or vegetable.
I had been working on developing robotic farming systems he said. Now I have an opportunity to bridge Earth farming systems to space.
#Whats the role robotics could play in future food production? A team of computer scientists from the University of Lincoln UK is co-organising an international workshop on recent advances in agricultural robotics.
Academics from the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) will be attending the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13) from 15th to 19th july 2014.
Recent results confirm that robots machines and systems are rapidly achieving intelligence and autonomy mastering more and more capabilities such as mobility and manipulation sensing and perception reasoning and decision making.
and industrial communities to discuss recent advances in robotic applications for agriculture and horticulture. The world's rapidly growing population brings new challenges for global food security.
Agricultural robotics is one of the promising technological solutions for addressing these problems. Dr Grzegorz Cielniak senior lecturer in the School of Computer science said:
The workshop will provide a forum to present the state-of-the-art technical solutions in agricultural robotics
and new exciting robotics platforms but also to encourage future collaborations between the participants. Recent examples have shown agricultural robotics autonomously performing a number of different agricultural tasks from monitoring soil
and crop properties and harvesting fruit in orchards to mechanical weeders eliminating the need for herbicides to produce affordable safer food.
Using teams of small specialised agricultural robots instead of the currently used heavy machinery can result in lower soil compaction leading to energy savings but also in more robust systems in the case of technical failures.
and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation. The special issue of the journal can be accessed at:
As the plants within all those chambers grow a camera attached to a robotic arm takes thousands of images of cells seeds roots and shoots.
The study has implications also for people who design artificial limbs or robots. Clearly locomotion is not as simple as we thought it was said Foster.
if we want to reproduce these movements in prosthetics or robotics. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Riverside.
As farms become increasingly complex with cattle interacting with robotic milkers automated feeding systems and other technologies slow adaptation can be frustrating for cows and farmers alike.
#Painting robot lends surgeons a hand in the operating roomwould you let an artist perform lifesaving surgery on you?
if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee built a robotic painting arm that can replicate the lines
and shapes a surgeon makes with a scalpel using a paintbrush and canvas. His invention a creative blend of art and science could one day lend doctors a hand in practicing complex robot-assisted surgeries without having to step foot in an operating room.
Rethinking roboticslee a sophomore who plans to major in chemistry spent his high school years building everything from a robot that can balance on a beam to a robotic arm that can throw a ball.
During his first year at Wake Forest he heard about a percussion-playing robot designed by Georgia Tech researchers
and started thinking about new ways to apply his hobby. I never really thought you could do music with robots he said.
That got me thinking'What else can you do with robots that most people wouldn't think about
or imagine happening?''I thought I could do something with painting and that prompted the idea of robotic surgery.
Lee said painting and surgery have more in common than initially meets the eye. A painter has to be nimble and precise with his brushstrokes much like a surgeon must be nimble and precise with a scalpel.
After weeks of programming I eventually got to the point where the robot could paint shapes and lines in a particular color.
Lee said from there it was relatively easy to train the robot to paint something like a sunset
or a house without any input from a human operator Lee next began to teach the robot to paint lines
Our goal was to get the robot to replicate the lines and shapes a surgeon makes with a scalpel all on its own he said.
Practicing in a surgeon's studiocurrently surgical robots are controlled by a human operator and do not perform procedures autonomously.
While Lee's robot may never be put to work in an operating room it and other robots like it could one day help researchers to design fully autonomous robotic surgeons.
In addition to teaching the robot to paint autonomously Lee also explored the idea of using his robot as a training tool for surgeons who need practice operating a Da vinci surgical arm.
At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.
These replicas are compared pretty expensive to my robotic arm which cost around $1500. This April Lee will represent Wake Forest at the ACC Meeting of the Minds an event where outstanding undergraduate researchers from each ACC university gather at one member university to present their research either verbally or as a poster.
This year the event will take place at the University of Pittsburgh where Lee will demonstrate his robot's painting abilities.
Working with Dr. Hamilton on my robot has been a great opportunity and there are definitely still a lot of things we can still learn from it Lee said.
sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farm Invention may lead to greener power plants When it comes to packaging,
Are we ready for a robotic barista? Humans have proven to be highly adaptable when it comes to replacing personal service with that of a computer.
when a robot supplants our barista? One company is betting that humankind will actually dig it.
Austin-based Briggo has spent the last 18 months testing a robotic barista at the University of Texas at Austin's Flawn Academic Center.
About the only thing the Briggo robot doesn't do is ask you how your day's going.
and entered Melanie as the pick-up name so the robot would announce that the drink he was about to order was for me.
The order goes up into the cloud and lands with the robot, who then sends a reply,
educating them about the process and physically picking up the cup from the robot to hand to the customer.
Pierce is now responsible for feeding the robot high-quality ingredients, like coffee beans roasted within the week
Inside the robot, every cup of coffee is ground fresh. Brewed coffee takes 15 to 30 seconds per drink,
I heard the sound of water--like any good robot, it cleaned itself after every order.
The right place for robotic coffee Terry Mahlum, regional director for Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services,
It's the right place for robotic coffee. The kiosk is slated for a central location across from Gate 13 in the American airlines terminal.
Nahmias is no stranger to food robots. He grew up in Mexico city, and his private school had a French fry machine.
But he likes the fact that Briggo's robot stores drink preferences so customers can easily repeat an order--which is advanced more than machines like the Rubi,
A new conversation, new coffee culture I stepped outside of the robot vortex and Nater pulled out his ipad,
showing me renderings of the new Briggo robot, which was designed by an internationally recognized industrial design firm.
People really wanted to see the robot, so there is a window to watch the inner-workings of the machine.
By early this year, Briggo had raised about $9 million for the next generation robot and expansion, almost exclusively from angel investors in Austin.
As for Nater, he's fired up about the robot and the drinks, but he's also eager for Briggo's next step in social media.
And just like the neighborhood barista, the robot remembers what they like. Everything else I consume in life I want variation,
Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the massesbuenos AIRES--The new Trakã Â r agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,
the robot will have a price tag of about a third of comparable commercial models. Thus, the Trakã Â r could make farm automation possible not only for small farmers in Argentina
Greenhouse robots are generally small wheeled vehicles that carry a tank of pesticide, a sprayer to distribute the liquid,
Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
the robot is built entirely from off-the-shelf parts. The robot's operator watches the Trakã Â r's progress through a cheap security camera mounted on its hood, for example.
It â¢s not an invention at all. The parts are available from local industry. They are standard components, Masiã ¡
A wireless transmitter on the robot sends camera video and sensor data such as the unit's speed,
The unique part of this robot is guiding system. Instead of using lasers or cameras and algorithms or satellite GPS, this is guided by a cable that emits a electromagnetic signal.
and the robot follows it. It's very low cost because cable is very inexpensive and you can add sections
said, not including the robot's chassis, motor, pump and electronics. Purchased abroad, it â¢s very likely that would cost you some $20, 000 all told.
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