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Artificial Skin Could Allow Robots to Feel Like we Do

Artificial Skin Could Allow Robots to Feel Like we Do

By Joe Dodgshun | Aug 1, 2017 @ 05:50 | Artificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for robots that can feel, smart-transplants and even cyborgs. Few people would immediately recognise the skin as our bodies’ largest organ, but the adult human has on average two square […]

Designing Soft Robots: Ethics-Based Guidelines for Human-Robot Interactions

Designing Soft Robots: Ethics-Based Guidelines for Human-Robot Interactions

Jul 25, 2017 @ 18:36 | Soft-bodied robots offer the possibility for social engagement, and novel tactile human-robot interactions that require careful consideration of the potential for misplaced emotional attachments and personally and socially destructive behavior by users. The ethical challenges related to human-robot interactions and how these should contribute to soft robotics design in […]

Hitchbot Creators to Study How Artificial Intelligence and Robots can Help Patients

Hitchbot Creators to Study How Artificial Intelligence and Robots can Help Patients

Jun 23, 2017 @ 12:35 | Research project to explore how artificial intelligence impacts behavioural change. McMaster and Ryerson universities today announced the Smart Robots for Health Communication project, a joint research initiative designed to introduce social robotics and artificial intelligence into clinical health care. With the help of external,Softbank’s humanoid robot Pepper and IBM […]

Robots Offer the Elderly a Helping Hand

Robots Offer the Elderly a Helping Hand

By Helen Massy-Beresford |  Jun 21, 2017 @ 18:28 | Everybody needs a helping hand when they get older – but in years to come that helping hand may be attached to a robotic arm. Low birth rates and higher life expectancies mean that those over 65 years old now will account for 28.7 % […]

A Novel Mechanical Design can Balance Bipedal Robots Without using Computer Brain and Sensors

A Novel Mechanical Design can Balance Bipedal Robots Without using Computer Brain and Sensors

May 3, 2017 @ 20:21 |  A bipedal robot, called Planar Elliptical Runner doesn’t need orientation sensors and computer brain to balance itself, its mechanical design is sufficient to provide dynamic stability as it runs. Inspired by Ostrich, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) researchers have developed a bipedal robot, called Planar Elliptical Runner. In this project, the […]

Meet MoRo – Your Future Robot Assistant

Meet MoRo – Your Future Robot Assistant

Jan 5, 2017 @ 19:54 |  MoRo is a human-sized assistant robot, designed for academic research, education and domestic assistance MoRo is a human-sized assistant robot developed by Ewaybot technology. It is designed for academic research and education, business activities as well as domestic assistance. MoRo is a 120cm height and 35 Kg in weight […]

Toyota Unveils Kirobo Mini Robot for Companionship

Toyota Unveils Kirobo Mini Robot for Companionship

Oct 4, 2016 @ 19:13 |  By providing people opportunities to live with Kirobo Mini, Toyota hopes to contribute to making life and society more abundant. Presales of Compact Communication Partner to Start at Tokyo and Aichi Car Dealers This Winter Toyota Motor Corporation plans to launch sales of its compact and cuddlesome “Kirobo Mini” […]