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.
Humans can read robotic body languageMarch 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A robot's eyes may not be the windows to its soul, but they can certainly help humans guess the machine's intentions, according to a new study. Researchers led by Bilge Mutlu at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, have demonstrated that robots "leak" non-verbal information through eye movements when interacting with humans.
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.
Dutch internet search engine claims to offer total privacyFebruary 2nd, 2009 AMSTERDAM - A Dutch company says it has developed the world's first internet search engine that guarantees users' absolute privacy. Ixquick (www.ixquick.com), established in 1998, is a so-called meta-search engine, which uses the search results of several search engines to provide its own list of results.
Pope will join Facebook soon, follow Obama modelMay 20th, 2009 LONDON - The Vatican is to post Pope Benedict XVI's profile on popular online social networking site, Facebook, as part of an effort to broaden the pontiff's appeal among computer savvy. The Facebook initiative will also involve iPhone applications and a new Vatican website, www.pope2you.net, which is slated to go live on the Catholic Church's World Communications day on May 24.
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).
LONDON - A robot is being given its own Facebook profile page in a bid to bridge the divide between humans and robots. With the development, researchers are hoping to foster meaningful relationships with people. The page will be populated with interactions the robot has with people as well as photos of the time it spends in human company.
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