Tech, sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farmmr. Greenthumb's latest gardening tool may just be...
This honey of a robot will fly like no other! Fly me to the moon.
we hope to eventually be able to produce an accurate and complete model that we can test within a flying robot.
Watch robots climb trees, helicopter in and sniff bugsrobots do the darndest things. For your pre-long-weekend amusement,
here are three videos of wacky things robots (and one gadget) can do. First up:
Treebot, the tree-climbing robot. Yes, robots have climbed trees before, but Treebot is the first to do
so without any help--and to tackle trees that are complete strangers. Treebot's creators, Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu from The Chinese University of Hong kong, presented their research at the International Conference on Robotics and Animation.
In this video, you can see Treebot inch its way up thin stalks of bamboo as well as trees with much thicker diameters.
Second is a rolling robot that can helicopter in at a moment's notice. Yes, the idea of transformers is not new,
The robot s researchers, Alex Kossett and IEEE Fellow Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos of the University of Minnesota's Center for Distributed Robotics, are working on an upgraded version in
which the robot can run on autopilot and figure out on its own how to get to its destination.
sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farm Invention may lead to greener power plants Accidental environmentalist designs furniture from invasive species Reuse and recycling, a modest proposal 10 steps toward making your home
Robots doing autopsies? Probably not. Even before more human lead autopsies are done, researchers will need a better understanding of female sexuality.
Bedbug genome uncovers pesticide resistance Beyond bedbugs-lay your head to rest in the greenest hotel Watch robots climb trees,  helicopter  in and sniff bugs
But my affinity for it pales in comparison to that of Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan, who writes this morning of a coffee-pouring robot installed at Roy St. Coffee and Tea in Seattle, Wash.
Like all robots, the idea is to accomplish and repeat a specific task with precision.
China unveils world s longest sea bridge Robot solves Rubik's cube in 5 seconds,
Should we'ban killer robots before it's too late'?'World bank chief: Climate change will be'devastating'Fedex,
Scientists create artificial bee eye for potential robot, flying vehicle usebees are known to have great vision
The system could be applied to flying vehicles like drones and robots. The lightweight imaging system, detailed in the Bioinspiration & Biometrics journal, features an artificial bee eye with a camera that aims to recreate an insect's processing and navigation skills.
It is suited also well for mobile robots, in particular on flying vehicles that need lightweight sensors
and her student Kyle Gilpin at MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL). In May, at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation the world premier robotics conference Rus and Gilpin will present a paper outlining the algorithms that will make such smart sand possible.
They've already tested their algorithms using 10-millimeter cubes that contain microprocessors and magnets on four sides.
Mysterious site spotted from space Mysterious geological site spotted from space Mysterious â Ëoenazca Lines â â¢ruins discovered in Saudi desert Did a robot discover Jesus â â¢tomb
and drugs A cheap landmine detector made from ebay parts Sensor robots sense out environmental changes
the robots are comingon a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants.
Researchers are now designing robots for these most delicate crops by integrating advanced sensors, powerful computing, electronics, computer vision, robotic hardware and algorithms,
Farmers say farm robots could provide relief from recent labor shortages, lessen the unknowns of immigration reform,
so the robots can come and alleviate some of that problem, "said Ron Yokota, a farming operations manager at Tanimura & Antle,
Another company, San diego-based Vision Robotics, is developing a similar lettuce thinner as well as a pruner for wine grapes.
The pruner uses robotic arms and cameras to photograph and create a computerized model of the vines,
it allows the robot to make a choice based on fruit color, quality and size. The berries are plucked
and uploading them into autonomous flying robots that will then fly and act like the real thing.
"Not only will this pave the way for many future advances in autonomous flying robots, but we also believe the computer modelling techniques we will be using will be widely useful to other brain modelling and computational neuroscience projects".
"The prospect of a robotic animal that's as mentally capable as the thing it's trying to mimic might seem exciting,
Robotic Pollinators: who said industrial agriculture was doomed? Robotics engineers are buzzing about a machine with potentially transformative implications for agriculture, surveillance, and mapping:
the"robobee.""Researchers atâ Harvard School of engineering and Applied Sciencesâ plan to have mechanized the critters flapping though the air autonomously within the next three years, according to NPR.
Futurist Fixes 1. Non Human (Robotic) Transportation: The same drone technology that the U s. military is using in Afghanistan could be put to use in the United states to transport goods between locations safer and faster than human drivers.
This could potentially free up roadways for humans as robot drivers could take a different route,
soldiers guarding borders may see an army of remotely controlled robots rushing toward them. Cummings reports that oeseveral U s. government agencies are seriously considering how to use unmanned vehicles in first strike or initial invasion settings.
we send in robots on the beach and let the robots take the fire, and then set up a logistics camp
so that Marines could go in. If a robot can launch an invasion, how long before they re delivering our goods and services automatically?
Check out clips: oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
irobot Packbot, covered in THE FUTURIST, March-April 2007.2. Air-powered Cars and trains: As we featured in THE FUTURIST, September-October 2008,
go-karts sporting air-powered engines whizzed around a racetrack in a test of mechanical engineering students prowess at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova scotia.
the capsules would contain thousands of microscopic robots called nanorobots. These would be in the range of a billionth of a meter in size
They would be robotic in that they would be programmed to carry out complex and specific functions in three-dimensional space.
The gadolinium-powered robots would make sure that the person body was absorbing the energy safely and consistently.
Freitas has two other nanobot solutions. oenutribots floating through the bloodstream would allow people to eat virtually anything, a big fatty steak for instance,
A nanobot Dr. Freitas calls a oelipovore would act like a microscopic cosmetic surgeon, sucking fat cells out of your body and giving off heat,
Futurist Fixes 1. Telemedicine and Robotic Surgery. As originally covered in the FUTURIST: Allison Okamura of the Johns hopkins university Department of Mechanical engineering says the real potential of robotic surgery
or rather computer-enhanced surgery is to reduce the impact of surgeries (make them less invasive,
Haptic systems are a particularly promising area of research in the field of robotics. Haptics involve making robotic surgical instruments more sensitive to human touch and,
reciprocally, allowing robot tools to convey sensory tactile data to the doctors who wield them.
Okamura and her team have developed a haptic system that helps doctors view how much pressure their robotic instruments are applying to a given area.
This sort of research will enable surgeons to better perform minimally invasive surgeries. Surgical robots can also photograph,
survey and collect data in ways that humans cannot and give surgeons a better sense of how the operation went,
after the fact. oewhen you do assisted robot surgery, you re already tracking the tools that are inside the patient,
You can model tissue health based on the data you acquired during operation by the robot.
More Robots, Less Farmers Company Installs 12, 500th Robotic Cow Milking Systema decreasing number of farmers are getting their hands dirty,
lest they gunk up their smartphone. Dutch maker of farming technologies, Lely, recently installed their 12,
500th cow-milking robot. That means that hundreds of thousands of cows all over the world are producing tens of millions of liters of milk per day at the pumps of robots rather than the hands of farmers.
If you re not familiar with Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking system, it essentially a boxed area that the cows walk into and are milked at their leisure.
The cow just walks into the milking station 3d cameras target their teats with a teat detection system,
and robotic barn cleaners. To meet increasing demand from customers in North america they ve built a US headquarters in Pella,
From GPS-guided tractors to fleets of weed-clearing robots, technology continues to change the meaning of a day work on the farm.
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