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Robosoft Kompai robot developed to assist dependent persons
At ILTCI 2010 (Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance Conference), New Orleans March 14th-17th, the French company Robosoft will present Kompaï – a robot designed to assist dependent persons at home. Kompaï is a companion style robot that can speak, understand verbal commands, navigate a home and always stays connected to… »
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Care-O-bot research is going open source
Care-O-bot is a research initiative of German researchers which came to its 3rd iteration. The exciting news is that the folks from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart are going to give away the platform to other researchers to play with. According to the announcement,… »
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Noteput – an interactive music table with tangible notes
Although it isnt’t hard to teach a child to play some tune on the piano or strum the guitar, teaching classical music notation is a bit more difficult in most cases. The Noteput table concept from designers Jonas Heuer and Jürgen Graef attempts to make learning music theory fun, and… »
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New nanoscopic material enables adults to regenerate cartilage
Amateur athletes, professional athletes and people whose joints have just worn out endure health problems, since humans are unable to regenerate cartilage once they are adults and often have to live with painful joints or osteoarthritis. Luckily, Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that… »
Bionics, Robotics »
Lockheed Martin HULC robotic exoskeleton will operate longer
After writing about Japanese HAL-5 robotic exoskeleton, in this article we’re going to write about Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) robotic exoskeleton. Developed by Lockheed Martin and Berkeley Bionics, the HULC robotic exoskeleton doesn’t boost the arm strength as some of the other robotic exoskeletons (including HAL-5) but it rather… »
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Mahru-Z – a walking robot maid doing household chores
For those of you remembering the robot maid Rosie from the animated show “The Jetsons”, here is a robot that actually resembles her and serves a similar porpoise. After two years of developing, and a lot of technology taken from previous iterations of Mahru robots, the scientists from Korea Institute… »
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I-FAIRY robot presented by Kokoro at CES 2010
The makers of the Actroid robot developed a similarly applied, yet less spooky robot. Kokoro Co. Ltd.’s I-FAIRY robot was unveiled at CES 2010 in Las Vegas last weekend. The “i” in its name stands for intelligent-information-icon, and as its name suggests, it’s an information robot based on the image of… »
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Is Roomba’s throne at risk? New version of LG RoboKing
After writing about E-Cleaner EC01 and Neato XV-11 we’re going to write about robotic vacuum cleaner(s) from LG Electronics. After the big failure of their too expensive (yet not more functional) first version of RoboKing, they decided to develop a better and cheaper robot that could compete with Roomba. Although… »
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Is Roomba’s throne at risk? Neato XV-11 maps obstacles
In our last article we started a mini-series named “Is Roomba’s throne at risk?” where we wrote about AGAiT Technology E-Cleaner EC01. Neato Robotics, a Silicon Valley startup, is pioneering new products to free people from household chores, introduced a new home robot vacuum cleaner that raises the bar for… »
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Hydrogel lenses could alert the diabetics to eat or take insulin
Diabetics are encountering the unenviable task of checking their blood sugar levels constantly, usually through a repeated ritual of pin-pricks and blood drawing. But a new non-invasive technology developed by a biochemical engineer at the University of Western Ontario lets diabetics check on their glucose levels with contact lenses that… »