The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin (Germany) has created an industrial robot of human-like proportions with a fingertip sensitivity that allows it to even hold an egg without breaking it.
29 unique new English teachers have arrived at Korean schools in Daegu, a city 240 kilometers south of Seoul. They are robots called Engkey capable of reading books, dancing, singing and teaching games to schoolchildren to learn the alphabet.
The Festo company has created this flexible and very agile robotic arm inspired by the trunk of an elephant. It is especially recommended for handling fragile objects.
American scientists have developed a new technology to manufacture "electronic skin", that is, an artificial coating that simulates human touch and whose application will multiply the functions of robots and contribute to the creation of a new generation of prostheses, according to the magazine 'Nature Materials'.
As national teams from all five continents battle to win the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, a league of 3,000 robots from more than 40 nationalities are waging their own World Cup in Singapore. In this year's Robocup, the machines will compete on a soccer field to score the maximum number of goals and stop the greatest number of shots, under very similar rules that contemplate, for example, the possibility of expulsion in the event of a serious foul. or the penalty shoot-out in the event of a tie.
The latest robotic creation developed at MIT is called MeBot and it is a new, small-sized telepresence robot that shows the operator's face on a screen located on a "neck" with 3 degrees of freedom that moves as if it were the head of a person of flesh and blood.
Several robot manufacturers have already launched themselves into the race to create the best domestic robot dedicated to cleaning floors. The popular Roomba from iRobot, of which five million copies have been sold, are now joined by Mint Cleaner, Neato XV-11, Ecleaner ,?
Repairs to the exterior of spacecraft and orbital stations are one of the riskiest tasks astronauts have to deal with. NASA finalizes the development of a new generation of assistant robots called LEMUR II.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
