New laws for responsible robotics may soon replace Asimov's robo guidelinesJuly 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways," said d David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University.
robo.in launches RoboCAMP in Bangalore from April 13April 1st, 2009 robo.in, a venture of Thinklabs, founded by a group of IIT Bombay alumnus, in the field of educational robotics, today announced the launch of RoboCAMP, a summer camp which aims to offer a wholesome robotic learning system which will help kids learn science and technology in more practical and fun manner. The camp will start from April 13 at three venues namely at Cunningham Road, Indira Nagar and Jayanagar.
Astronauts turn attention to robot arm, social networking, storage outside space stationJuly 21st, 2009 Space station astronauts use robot arm, go TwitterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts inside the international space station on Tuesday used robotic arms to move a storage pallet holding equipment for three experiments from the belly of the docked space shuttle Endeavour to the outside of the orbiting outpost's Japanese-made lab.
Researchers operate biomedical robots from different locations worldwide via InternetSeptember 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Experts from the University of Washington and SRI International have jointly developed a new software protocol, to standardize the way biomedical robots are managed over the Internet. Nine research teams from universities and research institutes around the world recently made a successful demonstration of biomedical robots operated from different locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia with the help of the 'Interoperable Telesurgical Protocol'.
Iron Man-like exoskeleton designed to help disabled moveApril 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Japanese robotics company called Cyberdyne has designed an Iron Man-like exoskeleton to help people with weak muscles or disabilities move. The company describes it as Hybrid Assistive Limb-5 (HAL-5).
10 Amazing Gadgets Featured in MoviesMay 4th, 2009 From the Transporter to Ocean's series, from James Bond to Batman - we have seen unique gadgets have been used for the movies as they have entertained people thoroughly. Some have been funny like Mr.
Robots are taking revolutionary roads of progress. Even some years before a robot used to look like an ugly machine that can walk and talk in a machine language (literally). But now, we have robo world cups for football. Robots are selling coffee in the streets of NY and etc. While the progress in robotic terms have always eluded us, Gadgetophilia has caught up with the flow with different robot- related articles in a regular basis.This time, on a rather cuter note, they present to you the best of pet robots.
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