Robotics Technology

REX Robotic Legs, an alternative to wheelchair

Good news for wheelchair users. The robotic legs successfully developed to help users to get up and walk again with both feet. Even able to go up and down the stairs.

Robot leg from New Zealand was named Rex. The robot, will be attached to the side legs to support the user’s body. From her appearance, “robot legs” is similar to the legs of Robocop.

“I’ll never forget what it was like to see my feet walking under me the first time I used Rex,” says Hayden, who is 6’4” (193cm) tall when standing. “People say to me, ‘look up when you’re walking’ but I just can’t stop staring down at my feet moving.”

Being out of his chair and on his feet again allows Hayden many more options on a day to day basis, increasing opportunities for employment and recreational activities by providing access for him to independently go places previously inaccessible to him. For example – up stairs!

Qbot, a mini robot that was funny and cute

Robot developer from Spain, Francisco Paz created a mini robot that is funny and adorable. Robot Qbot named this, is predicted to act as a home robot that can be bought a lot of people.

Qbot was created without having your arms and legs. Although the robot is seen can not do anything, but Qbot designed with some interesting features. One is designed to be interactive robots.

Qbot development based on open source software and hardware to upgrade DIY (Do It Yourself). With a height of 18 inches and weighs 19-24 pounds, Qbot was deliberately designed for ordinary consumers, to be enjoyed by many people.

Robotics in Our Everyday Life

Human life is increasingly felt easier with the discovery of various tools that can help people perform their activities.For some people, the facilities would have made him even more lazy. But for others, surely it would make it easier to do many things. In the end, people themselves who will make choices for themselves.

Science fiction movies would have us believe that robotics will soon be dominating our lives. Recent movies like I, Robot and A.I. offer exciting glimpses into a potential future where humans and robots live, but we’re still decades away from that. While giant strides in computers and miniaturization have rooted robotics into mainstream manufacturing and delivery of industrial products, there’s still a lot to learn. We need at least another generation or two before robotic engineering can make robots as common as your PCs at home and in the office.

Simply put, robotics is an allied application of computer science that is more involved in getting programmed instructions to make electro-mechanical devices called robots perform specialized tasks and accomplish results. And achieving that can include using more complex thinking computers that can interact with the environment, people and can move about to make things happen depending on their purposes.

Robotics and Human Responsibility

This is the futher explanation about statement “Three Laws Of Robotics” by Isaac Asimov.

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When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the “Three Laws of Responsible Robotics,” he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers to take up robotics.

In the current issue of journal IEEE Intelligent Systems, two engineers propose alternative laws to rewrite our future with robots.

The future they foresee is at once safer, and more realistic.

“When you think about it, our cultural view of robots has always been anti-people, pro-robot,” explained David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University. “The philosophy has been, ‘sure, people make mistakes, but robots will be better — a perfect version of ourselves.’ We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways.”

Asimov’s laws are iconic not only among engineers and science fiction enthusiasts, but the general public as well. The laws often serve as a starting point for discussions about the relationship between humans and robots.

Robots To Clean Your Kitchen And Play Hockey?

This interesting information come from ScienceDaily, said about the future of robotics which could be made by anyone, not just industries or company who able to make a “big” robots.

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Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot’s long and shiny arms to a visitor.

Here, they said, swing it around. And so the visitor tentatively gave the robot’s left arm a few twists and twirls. The metal arm was heavy, but still moved easily at its shoulder, elbow and wrist joints.

Then the graduate students hit some keyboard commands and the robot replayed those exact arm movements.

It was all incredibly quick, smooth and precise.