Take a look at this garden robot prototype so called Prospero. This is a pretty simple servo based hexapod robot that is equipped with gardening gear. The main idea is to develop a swarm of these robots that would perform tasks as a group. After it’s finished Prospero robots should perform series of tasks in farm starting with planting seeds, taking care and harvest. In following video you can see on phase – planting seed.
Robot is controlled by Parallax Propeller chip. Continue reading
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Tagged game theory, Parallax Propeller, Robot planter, swarm robot
Robotics has been one of the most attractive feature and study that the scientists are working upon these days. They have come up with various robots of different functionalities. They try their best to evolve and make such a robot that serves their purpose in the best possible way. A robot is basically nothing but a machine which is programmed by the programmer who develops it in a way that it performs the desired function for which it is made up.
It is given a very similar experience like a human being so that it looks even more real. It is programmed in such a way that it also performs certain actions like the humans and can also walk. A general definition of the robotics states that it should at least perform the data processing and should be able to move objects. Walking robots are the most wanted ones these days. Continue reading
Domestic robots or home helpers like they are referred to can be used for house hold chores like vacuum cleaning and serving guests. Science inventions and technological breakthroughs have enabled the use and help of these artificial human beings be greatly received and appreciate for the easy at which they are making be. Some people are even demanding for much more improved robots that can actually think and do things just like human in a more natural way
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With the trend and emergence of more technology, it is presumed that robots that are home helpers will be more common in near future than it has never been seen. Right now the most commonly used robots home helpers are the vacuum cleaners. The vacuum cleaners use air pump to create a semi or partial vacuum to be able to suck up dust and dirt from the floors. The collected dirt and dust are also stored in the dustbag or cyclone for future disposal. These robots home helpers are actually creating and making work much easier and faster as well as efficient. All one needs to do is just control the vacuum cleaner as it collects all the dust from the floors or tables and leaving them spotlessly clean
The other home helpers’ robots are the entertainment robots for example the HERO or AIBO. Just like the name suggest they are made with a single subjective role of creating pleasure and ensuring the owner is entertained just lie intended. This might be more complicated because there is no existing machine that can actually do things like a human being so it will just offer the programmed service without attaching emotions to it or maybe offering other cropping demands like a human being can. We use hi fi machines and other machines that have used the robotics technologies and it is now a trend that in most cultures and entertainment areas most robotics technologies are applied
The robots home helpers are used to perform jobs and task that human feel are dangerous or dehumanizing for instance washing of sewerage drainage systems or swimming pools. These kinds of jobs can be dangerous in nature especially the swimming pool cleaning can be fatal if the cleaner is not a good swimmer and he or she slips in the water. The sewage drainage job is dehumanizing and a machine that is programmed to do that can carry out the duty very well and effectively than a human being who might do it hastily and shoddily.
Most parents are now working and staying with their kids during the day can prove a little bit demanding yet they have job to do, so they get help of baby sitting robots who are programmed to sweet talk the kid and even sing to them, incase they are agitated and are crying. This kind of job reduces the kind of a work load a parent has at the end of day. The robots are great helpers and with time and more inventions superior and more complex one which can carryout a more demanding duty with human touch in it will be developed for human use at home and in the offices
Most of the people always think, the robots are only the machines that didn’t have any feeling. It’s definitely impossible for the scientists to apply emotion on the robots.
Well, please don’t be so sure about your thought yet, as the scientists at Georgia Tech had decided to test our ability to interpret a robot’s emotion. The research group discovered that older adults showed some unexpected differences in the way they read a robot’s face from the way younger adult did.
Jenay Beer, a graduate student in Georgia Tech’s School of Psychology described that the home-based assistive robots have the potential to help older adults, as they can be used to keep the older adults independent longer. As a result, it reduces healthcare needs and provides everyday assistance to the elders.
Based on the previous research, the robot found out that older adults are less accurate in recognizing anger, fear and happiness. Furthermore, the older adults have problem recognizing the happy robot compared with their success in recognizing happy people.
Another interesting fact about the experiment was the researchers discovered that neither the young nor old could easily distinguish the emotion disgust on the virtual iCat. It might be due to the difficulty in programming a robot to show the emotion! [sciencedaily.com]
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Tagged Emotional robot, Georgia Tech’s School of Psychology, virtual iCat
For those who spending over hours on the Twitter, you might be want to find a device, which is not only can help you to read your latest Twitter status, but it brings you a lot a fun when you’re Twittering.
Honestly, it might be seemed a little bit ridiculous for some of the Twitter’s users, but the Ganzbot is truly a superb arduino robot that read new Twitter messages instantly.
Ok, Ganzbot’s appearance is a little bit weird for some people, but it’s truly something new that worth to try with. Go figure, you can simply put on your picture on the Ganzbot. Once there are some new Twitter messages being updated, the Ganzbot is automatically inform the user, by simply blinking its LEDs eyes and smiling through the LEDs mouth!
Beside that, the Ganzbot will verbally read the latest Twitter status to you, where it uses an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and receives the latest Twitter status information over USB from a host computer.
Well, whether it’s a fun or a nightmare, it’s totally up to you here, my friend!
Living in the 21st century, there’s nothing to be more pathetic and scary, especially if you living in the countries, which the war is happening nearly every second!
According to the statistic, nearly 20 percent of the Americans soldiers that fighting in the battlefield in Afghanistan, Iraq and much more are having the chance of losing one of their hand. Normally, they’ve to wait until they’re home to put on an artificial hand onto their body. However, the scenario is going to change 360 degrees…
DEKA arm, one of the remarkable companies in artificial limb is now undergoing a $100 million Pentagon program called “Revolutionizing Prosthetics”.
Dr. Geoffrey Ling, the Army colonel and neurologist who leading the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program said beside of making the artificial limb, it’s also their responsibility to bring the humanity back.
Furthermore, Ling described that the Revolutionizing Prosthetics is a very massive project, as it involves more than 300 scientists, including top engineers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
However, the program is still in the early stage and it might take up to five years to accomplish. [cbsnews]
Nowadays, people are mostly depend on the household appliances, especially the household robots to perform the daily tasks, such as communication, entertainment and so on. However, they’re mostly ignored their own security and privacy, by key-in the confidential information into the household robots without further supervision.
Believe it or not, some people or strangers would take the chance to stole our important personal details, by simply wireless remote the household robots from a distance!
Tadayoshi Kohno, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at University of Washington said that a lot of attention has been paid to robots becoming more intelligent. Sometimes, it leads the household robots turning into the evil!
He mentioned that some bad people might use the household robots to do bad things. Furthermore, he also identified the scenarios that a robot might physically harm its owner, when the hackers are controlling them. He believed that the risks of being attacked by household robots is definitely a few times higher than nowadays, especially when the robots become more widespread in the near future!
It’s the right time to start addressing household robots’ security and privacy, before it turns into a chaos to human race. [sciencedaily]
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Tagged Future Robots, Household robot, Household Robots, robot, Robotics, Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington
In many decades ago, over thousands of marine and robotic scientists have been cooperated to develop the swimming robots. Now, after over thousand times of experiments, a group of researchers from University of Bath has finally designed a new type of swimming robot.
The swimming robot is called, “Gymnobot” and its created by researchers from the Ocean Technologies Lab in the University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Keri Collins and Ryan Ladd, the two postgraduate researchers who developed Gymnobot, described that it’s totally a new breakthrough in submersible technology.
They mentioned that unlike the traditional swimming robots, the latest “Gymnobot” is fully powered by a fin that runs the length of the underside of its rigid body. By using this concept, it continuously undulates to make a wave in the water and hence, propels the swimming robot to move forward!
Both of them agreed that the Gymnobot is more energy efficient than conventional propellers. Furthermore, it allows the swimming robot to navigate and move freely, even though at shallow water near the seashore.
According to the brilliant duo, the Gymnobot is going to be used to film and study the diverse marine life near the seashore in the near future! [sciencedaily]
Does the Braitenberg Vehicle sounds like a bit Deutsch for you here? Well, For those who didn’t notice, the Braitenberg Vehicle is actually a masterpiece from the Mr. Valentino Braitenberg, a biological cybernetics professor from Germany! He is the person who brought out the idea, Braitenberg Vehicles to the public.
According to Mr. Braitenberg, the vehicle represents the simplest form of behavior based artificial intelligence or embodied cognition. Technically, a Braitenberg vehicls is an automaton, which is freely moved around without any control buttons with it. It has a series of primitive light sensors and wheels that function as actuators or effectors. In most of the case, a sensor is directly connected to an effector. Hence, a sensed signal will be immediately produces a movement of the wheel.
Honestly, the vehicle performs different goal-oriented behaviors, which is mainly depending on how sensors and wheels are connected to the Braitenberg vehicle.
The Tiny Braitenberg Vehicle is much smaller than other is and comes on a custom PCB. Believe it or not, it only weighs 17 grams, but it can be driven by two pager motors and powered by a small lipo cell. Also, it’s possible to control the Braitenberg Vehicle with an 8-pin ATtiny25V as well!
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Tagged 8-pin ATtiny25V, Braitenberg Vehicle, PCB, small lipo cell
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