HRP-5P Is A Heavy Labor Capable Humanoid Prototype Robot Researchers have developed a humanoid robot prototype, HRP-5P, intended to autonomously perform heavy labor or work in hazardous environments. As a 182 cm, 101 kg humanoid robot, HRP-5P was built on HRP series technologies by incorporating new hardware technologies. Within the Read more…
Robots Will Soon Match Humans in Creativity, Emotional Intelligence As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and better than humans can, potentially stealing our jobs in the future and presenting what some technologists Read more…
Watch Tiny Robots Swim Through an Eyeball to Deliver Medicine Although the mere thought of a swarm of microrobots burrowing into an eyeball is enough to make some people squirm, scientists believe tiny, controllable delivery vehicles could be the future of eye medicine. Now, researchers have developed a tiny, rotini-shaped Read more…
Robots to make robots at ABB’s new $150 million factory in China ZURICH (Reuters) – Robots will make robots at a new ABB (ABBN.S) factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as Read more…
Groundbreaking Moment as a Robot Closes the NY Stock Exchange The UR5e robot arm from Universal Robots is the first “cobot” to ring the NYSE bell, marking the rapid growth of collaborative robotics within the industrial automation market. Last Wednesday, Oct. 17, traders on the floor of the New York Read more…
JAPANESE SPACECRAFT DROPS ROBOT ONTO ASTEROID TO HUNT FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM ‘A land full of wonder, mystery and danger! I landed on asteroid Ryugu!’ A robot has been successfully dropped onto an asteroid millions of miles from Earth – and will now hunt for the origin of Read more…
The Future Of Farming Is Robots SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He’s heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he’s strong enough to hoist 800-pound pallets of maturing vegetables Read more…
Robotel: Japan hotel staffed by robot dinosaurs The reception at the Henn na Hotel east of Tokyo is eerily quiet until customers approach the robot dinosaurs manning the front desk. Their sensors detect the motion and they bellow “Welcome.” It might be about the weirdest check-in experience possible, but that’s Read more…
Robot-Made Burgers Wow The Crowds In San Francisco An audience gathers around the transparent 14-foot-long “culinary instrument” in a restaurant called Creator in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. Brioche buns are sliced, buttered and toasted by paddles moving like waves in the ocean. They land in specially designed, compostable hamburger boxes. The buns Read more…
The Alieno Arcanum Is A 5,221 HP HyperCar. Alieno was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in the Earth-based country of Bulgaria. It uses the Italian word for “alien” as a name because, as its founder/CEO/CTO/chief constructor Ahmed Merchev explains it, he has a mission to “create hypercars with alien Read more…
Construction Robots Weld, Bolt, Lift To Beat Worker Shortage Robots that can weld, lift and bolt are being developed to help bridge labor shortages at Japanese construction sites, though their use will be limited to night shifts when no human workers will be nearby due to safety and regulatory concerns. Read more…
You Can Rent This Giant Robot … in Japan Every so often a pretty impressive and giant robot appears from some little known company somewhere around the world — and this one is available to rent! Introducing the LW-mononofu mecha (that’s jargon for a large armored robot – typically seen in movies or Read more…