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Japanese seniors bored with robot
From Robot.net According to a Reuters report, Japanese senior citizens quickly become bored with the simple robots so far introduced into nursing homes: "The residents liked ifbot for about a month before they lost interest. Stuffed animals are more popular." Ifbot is a sm... Read more ...
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EU researchers implanted an artificial...
Roland Piquepaille reports that "An international team of European researchers has implanted an artificial cerebellum - the portion of the brain that controls motor functions - inside a robotic system. This EU-funded project is dubbed SENSOPAC, an acronym for "SENSOrimotor structuring of perc... Read more ...
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Telepresence robot for interpersonal...
Developing a Telepresence Robot for Interpersonal Communication with the Elderly in a Home Environment. Telemed J E Health. 2007 Aug;13(4):407-424 Authors: Tsai TC, Hsu YL, Ma AI, King T, Wu CH "Telepresence" is an interesting field that includes virtual reality implementations with hum... Read more ...
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Halluc II: 8-legged robot vehicle
Via Pink Tentacle Researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology have developed a robotic vehicle with eight wheels and legs designed to drive or walk over rugged terrain. The agile robot, which the developers aim ... Read more ...
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RunBot
Via Medgadget Researchers from Germany and the United Kingdom have developed a bipedal walking robot, capable of self-stabilizing via a highly-developed learning process. From the study abstract : In this study we present a planar biped robot, which uses the design princ... Read more ...
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Using a Robot to Teach Human Social Skills
Via KurzweilAI A humanoid robot designed to teach autistic children social skills has begun testing in British schools. Known as KASPAR (Kinesics and Synchronisation in Personal Assistant Robotics), the $4.33 million bot smiles, simulates surprise and sadness Read full article Read more ...
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Epigenetic Robotics 2007 (Extended Deadline)
Via NeuroBot 5-7 November 2007, Piscataway, NJ, USA Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Email: epirob07@epigenetic-robotics.org Location: Rutgers, The State University o... Read more ...
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First DARPA Limb Prototype
From the DARPA press release (via Medgadget ) An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has developed a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sen... Read more ...
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Evolution of visually guided behavior in...
Evolution of visually guided behavior in artificial agents. Network. 2007 Mar;18(1):11-34 Authors: Boots B, Nundy S, Purves D Recent work on brightness, color, and form has suggested that human visual percepts represent the probable sources of retinal images rather than stimulus feature... Read more ...
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Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic...
Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems Call for Papers: Epigenetic Robotics 2007 5-7 November 2007, Piscataway, NJ, USA Location: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA Read more ...