Synchronized Robots Dance to ‘Thriller’

Source: Time Magazine

This development threatens to upstage hardworking Filipino prison inmates and start a wave of robotic ’80s music video reenactments. The worst thing? These robots aren’t just some animatronic dance troupe like the Country Be ...
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The Future is NAO

Source: GovLoop

NAO: A humanoid programmable robot with a mind of its own. This little robot (57 cm) may have big plans to walk into the life of every human being. Created by Aldebaran Robotics with the launch of Project NAO in ...
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MIT researchers devise new means to synchronize a group of robots (w/ Video)

Source: PhysOrg.com

Comparaison of the network topology without (left) or with (right) quorum sensing (Phys.org) -- For several years, roboticists have been working out ways to get a group of robots to perform synchronized activities as demonstrate ...
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Source: Science News

Incorporating math that describes the oscillating movements of body parts, such as arm and heads, is quite clever, says Mehran Mesbahi of the University of Washington in Seattle, whose research includes spacecraft naviga ...
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Yes, minister -- getting to grips with pint-sized teacher's pet

Source: Independent.ie

HE'S the teacher's pet of the future.And pint-sized robot Nao -- meaning 'obedient' in Japanese -- can even be programmed to act as a special needs assistant. He was a firm favourite with both teachers and schoolchildren alike at the Science Galler ...
Full article at: Independent.ie  More like this  3 days ago, 10:53pm CDT