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Category Archives: Robotics News

Lego Camera, Learning Photography With Lego

06-Mar-10

Want to give a special gift for your child? This camera seems to be the right choice. Besides can be used to take pictures, with this camera, the creativity of your child can also more sharply through the lego game.

Lego Digital Camera, so the name of the gadget itself. There are two advantages to be gained from this colorful camera. First, sharpen the creativity of children through the game loading tide. Second, children can learn photography by taking pictures of interesting objects in the vicinity.

South Korea to Build Robots Island

28-Feb-10

south korea robot Land

The South Korean government is planning to build “Robot Land”, a research center and recreation, all with robots. That said, this is the first robot park in the world.

Quoted from Cnet, Friday (19/2/2010), this robot island, will be opened in the area of Incheon, one of the largest cities in South Korea. Manufacturing cost is said to reach U.S. $ 560 million.

According to the website “Robot Land”, this robot park will display all forms of entertainment robots nuanced. Eg exhibition famous robots or reconstruction of such a robot movie ‘Minority Report’ or ‘I, Robot’.

Toyota Make Personal Assistant Robot

16-Feb-10

Recently, Toyota Motor Corp. “attacked” by “storm recall cars” in America, which would make trouble. Not wanting to go on in the problem, Toyota makes a useful pair of robots as human personal assistant.

As reported by Autoevolution, Thursday (28/1/2010), the Japanese car manufacturer announced, if they have created a couple of robots are not just one, but four types of robots!

First is the walking robot, a robot that can walk and is ready to help the parents. The streets were his duty. With two feet and be able to use his hands to perform various tasks. Remarkably, she also can play the trumpet.

Robonaut 2 : The NASA Astronaut Robot

10-Feb-10

NASA space center diligently to create a humanoid robot astronaut. This sophisticated robot may one day, would replace human tasks when running dangerous missions in space.

Working closely with the General Motors car company, a robot called Robonaut 2 is designed to work side by side with humans. In addition to helping the human astronauts in outer space, Robonaut 2 also would be helped to make cars in the factory.

NASA previously had made the first generation of Robonaut. Robonaut 2 course will be more sophisticated than its predecessor, is designed to work faster, more skilled and stronger construction.

Japanese Develop Recycled Robot Fish

17-Jan-10

Japanese people’s interest against one species of fish were realized by making the recycling robot fish.

Called “recycling” because produced from a number of secondhand items such as raincoats and glass wipers. A researcher and educator in the field of marine named Masamichi Hayashi is the figure behind the robot that called ‘robo-fish’.

Robots that operated with a remote control can perform some activities such as opening and closing the mouth and eat the clone of ‘prey’. In fact, this robot can take the trash out of the water and give it to people who were on the beach.

Robotic surgery for treatment of prostate cancer

26-Dec-09

davinci robotic surgery

Robotic surgery has experienced great popularity for urologic surgery; particularly cancers of the prostate located deep in the pelvis.

In 2009, it is estimated that 192,280 new cases will be diagnosed and more than 27,000 men will die of prostate cancer. The lifetime probability of developing prostate cancer is one in six for American men. Current treatment alternatives for clinically localized prostate cancer include removal of the prostate gland (surgery), radiation to the cancerous prostate (external beam or radioactive seed implants), active surveillance, or other treatments (hormonal or cryotherapy).

Radical prostatectomy via an open approach has historically been the gold standard therapy for the surgical treatment of prostate cancer. While oncologic and functional outcomes following open radical prostatectomy are excellent, prolonged recovery is a legitimate concern for physicians and patients. With such considerations, an impetus within the surgical community has been to reduce the complications of procedures without compromising on established standards of care. To that end, laparoscopic surgery, which is performed via several tiny holes rather than one long incision, has been shown to reduce perioperative complications while improving recovery. Robotic surgery represents the next potential iteration for advances in minimally invasive surgery.

Nao Robots playing football

24-Sep-09

Check above youtube video… that’s Nao Robots playing football. They have ability to detect the ball, kick the ball and when they are falling down to the floor, they could standing up their self…

Nao is definitely one of the coolest humanoids around that stands a chance of making it into households as a real product. Aldebaran envisions it as “an autonomous family companion.”

Fully programmable, the 23-inch bot boasts 25 degrees of freedom, affording it an impressive range of motion. Check it out in Nao’s new promo vid after the jump.

Nao can grasp objects with its prehensile hands; process image and sound data; and navigate its environment using its sonars. Multimedia features include high-fi speakers, microphones, and CMOS digital cameras.

The biped runs on an x86 AMD Geocode 500 MHz CPU, 256MB SDRAM, 2GB flash memory, and lithium polymer batteries that last about 90 minutes per charge.

Theme Animation Video Abu Robocon 2010

01-Sep-09

China wins in ABU Robocon 2010 with theirvery great robots. It’s time for ABU Robocon 2010 prereparation. :) . This robot contest will be held in Cairo, Egypt with theme “Where Robot Meets Civilization Land“.
The video animation rule for ABU Robocon 2010 is here:

You can download the video in MP4 format HERE.
Prepare your self for next battle… :)

Making a Ramen Food with Robotics Arm

09-Aug-09

Here the Robotic arm which used to make a ramen (one of japanese food)… the movement is so great… Robotics is now support the restaurant.. :)

News: Medical Micro-robots Made As Small As Bacteria

20-Apr-09

Micro robots built by researchers for medical purpose. Here the complete news:

medical micro robotArtificial bacterial flagella are about half as long as the thickness of a human hair. They can swim at a speed of up to one body length per second. This means that they already resemble their natural role models very closely.

They look like spirals with tiny heads, and screw through the liquid like miniature corkscrews. When moving, they resemble rather ungainly bacteria with long whip-like tails. They can only be observed under a microscope because, at a total length of 25 to 60