[17 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Wat maakt een robot tot een robot?

Robots are machines, they appear in Science Fiction films, but also in everyday life. But when you're talking about a robot and when on a normal machine? An article about the definition of a robot.
Not every machine is a robot, some machines and not directly where you would expect from that again is. And the definition of a robot is always much haggling. So I was last in the big robot show in Amsterdam Nemo and the present speakers and the audience could only …

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[18 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Roboticaconferentie in Den Haag, 5 en 6 November

TWA robotics organize a robotics conference in The Hague next November. The conference has a full-day program and admission is free.
The conference is divided into two parts. 5 November is an open conference day and 6 November is a private conference day for politicians and people in industry.
There are several workshops held during the day that robot enthusiasts and professionals who study or because of their robotics to have followed. Topics that will include Advanced interaction, incl.human/brain-machine interfaces, Sensors & Control, Autonomous action en …

Beveiligingsrobots »

[17 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
De Rotundus Groundbot, beveiligingsrobot

The ‘Groundbot "of the Swedish rotundus is a round rolling robot equipped with sensors and cameras, and is as easy to operate as a video game.
The task of the security and surveillance is Groundbot. The round rolling robot is able, under direct control of an autonomous region to drive and operator of live video to provide.
The robot was originally conceived for the space and then to other planets in particular research tasks to perform. A task that requires extreme reliability and robustness.
De robot is tot in …

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[17 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Taizo de Japanse fitness robot helpt ouderen bewegen

Help with move? Taizo the Japanese robot fitness does more than 30 fitness exercises.
Japan is ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to robotics. There are several robots in Japan with various functions available over the counter, something here in the West on some toys after, not occur.
One of the last robot acquisitions in the land of the Rising Sun is a robot clown named Taizo that can help older people stay fit. The robot weighs 15 pounds and is about as long …

Editorial »

[17 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Wat maakt een robot tot een robot?

Robots are machines, they appear in Science Fiction films, but also in everyday life. But when you're talking about a robot and when on a normal machine? An article about the definition of a robot.
Not every machine is a robot, some machines and not directly where you would expect from that again is. And the definition of a robot is always much haggling. So I was last in the big robot show in Amsterdam Nemo and the present speakers and the audience could only …

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[17 Sep 2009 | 1 Comment | ]
Infiltratie robot springt 7,5 meter hoog

A small U.S. military robot the size of a shoebox is able to make a leap of 7,5 meters so as to infiltrate into enclosed areas.
The robot Precision Urban Hopper has called an observation mission and is equipped with camera and GPS navigation. The robot has a leg in the center that is powered by a fuel. This allows the robot to trick thirty more times for his fuel for the jumps of up 60 times its height runs out.
Source: Geek.com

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[17 Sep 2009 | 1 Comment | ]
Architectuur bureau bouwt Indemann robot langs snelweg

The Dutch architectural office Maurer United Architects has a tower in the shape of a giant robot replicas along the German motorway between Cologne and Aachen.
The robot tower is 36 meters, The facade of stainless steel and equipped with LED lights. The robot is named Inde Mann and the view from above the robot would be phenomenal.
A real robot is of course not, it has only the stereotypical shape of a robot. The project will transition the architecture office of the industrial age to portray the media age. Although …

Hobby robots »

[16 Sep 2009 | 1 Comment | ]
RoboQuad, inteligente robot voor hobyisten

The Roboquad from WowWee is a four legged robot with a diverse nature. He uses light signals and sensors to react to its environment.
Roboquad is advanced for a hobby robot. It uses infrared light to its surroundings to see if his move to LED lights in the dark. He can find doors and walk through it and sees that he can avoid obstacles.
Roboquad is aware of sounds and so he may respond to such research assumes if someone enters the room. He Sound, late …

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[10 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Reclamebedrijf wil met robots op de maan reclame maken

The company ‘Moon Publicity’ want robots on the moon in the lunar dust drawings to make visible from the Earth.
Moon Publicity keep clear account of the advances in robotic technology and space and sees the opportunity to exploit the moon by robots advertising banners to draw in the dust on the moon. This would make robots miles to the moon to disturb the dust and sign off as a logo that is visible from Earth.
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[10 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Rattenhersenen besturen robot

Researchers at the University of Reading in England have brain cells of a rat given control over a robot. The robot is driven by word canceled a biological brain.
The researchers hope to study to understand the spontaneous electrical patterns in the brain cells. This understanding can help them in developing a treatment for diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Epilepsy.

Source: New Scientist

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[10 Sep 2009 | Leave a comment | ]
Endoscopie robots

One of the areas where robotics has come increasingly to the care. Especially in surgery, the development of robots with leaps forward.
Below are some wonderful examples of care robots. As the crawling robot Endoscopy. This robot is designed to be swallowed by the patient, then the robot independently crawls through the digestive tract which makes video and the treating physician can detect diseases and treatment for the ailment can propose. This allows physicians a much more effective way to perform an endoscopy. Robot …