“Green House” Robots

The robot is designed to learn the optimal process of searching for nutrients in order to keep the plant in a good condition. Moreover, it can send reports of its movements and developments to its fellow greenhouse robots through wireless communication, making it possible to learn from each other.

Full Story at Treehugger.com

Robots get there own Operating system (R.O.S.)

R.O.S(Robot Operating System) has software commands that, for instance, provide ways of controlling a robot’s navigation, and its arms, grippers and sensors, without needing details of how the hardware functions. The system also includes high-level commands for actions like image recognition and even opening doors.

When ROS boots up on a robot’s computer, it asks for a description of the robot that includes things like the length of its arm segments and how the joints rotate. It then makes this information available to the higher-level algorithms.

Full Story at New Scientist

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Robotic Snakes (Video)

This is a collection of more recent clips from the modsnake lab at Carnegie Mellon University

Amazing Japanese Robot making coffee

More Info about this Robot Here at Crunch Gear.com

PR2 Alpha Robot “Recharges Himself”

Robot called PR2 Alpha Robot can find its own power source and plugs itself in to the outlet to recharge

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Trilobot (Video)

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A.C.E The Robot

The Autonomous City Explorer, or ACE, is completely dependent on directions to get to where it needed to go.

This robot was recently let loose off campus from a University in Munich, and it was programmed to get to a landmark 1.5 kilometers away.

Full Story At Coolest-gadgets.com

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Robotic Teachers

According to news sources, Saya, the humanoid, is multilingual, can do roll calls and set tasks from textbooks. Her latex face, which was modeled after that of a university student, is controlled by 18 motors, which create a full range of expressions including happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and even anger.

Full Story at Digital Journal

Odd Cleaning Robot

Panasonic has revealed a strange new cleaning robot at the recent Tokyo Fiber Senseware expo in Milan.

The robot is wrapped in Nanofront, a special polyester cloth based on nanofibers, developed by Teijin, Ltd.

Full Story at Robot.Net

“Watch out Pirates” Here comes Robo_Sniper

It’s called Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System. And it mounts a powerful rifle onto highly stabilized turret, and fixes the package on board a Vigilante unmanned helicopter. I describe the system in this month’s Popular Mechanics.

Full Story At Wired