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Wearable rescue robot learns a new trick, starts opening doors

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 4:34am

Thanks to the robo-wizards at Japan's BL Autotec, small form-factor rescue robots have a new trick up their sleeves — and yes, they could even have sleeves now — in the shape of a robotic arm that can open doors....

Japanese surgical robot can perform a bypass on still-beating hearts

Kevin Hall

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 2:44pm

When doctors need to perform a coronary bypass, it typically involves cracking open the patient's chest and stopping all functions of the heart. From Waseda University in Japan comes a robot that could end the need for that second step,...

MIT introduces networked plants tended by robot gardeners

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 6:58am

We think that robot teachers may be a bit much, but what about robot gardeners? Students and researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed robots that tend to tomato plants— no human intervention required. The...

26 students spent five weeks training a robot to serve ice cream with awesome results

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 2:41pm

How many students does it take to program a robotic arm to serve ice cream? 26, it seems, who spent five weeks to do it. That's time well spent in my book. "Project: Ice Cream" went down at Ohio Northern...

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Wearable rescue robot learns a new trick, starts opening doors

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26 students spent five weeks training a robot to serve ice cream with awesome results

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