Neowin News Feed for: Robot

Mann vs Machine coming to Team Fortress 2 on August 15th

Paul Ferson — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:22:44 +0100

Mann vs Machine, the long-rumored update for Team Fortress 2, has been confirmed to release in just over a day by an official Valve trailer. Read more...

Microsoft software engineer develops robot for his dog

Paul Ferson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:50:24 +0000

Microsoft's Jordan Correa built a robot to entertain and play with his dog while he was away at work, having done so to ensure it remains active. Read more...

Kickstarter Week in Review: Minecraft and more edition

Christopher White — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:48:34 +0000

Kickstarter is a site that gives people with product ideas a place to pitch their offerings to people who want to donate to their cause. While donators aren’t investing in the idea, they are given... Read more...

Robot cars race around California

Lt-DavidW — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:26:36 +0000

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A driverless car called Boss has scooped a $2m prize in a Californian race for robotic vehicles. Boss successfully drove around an urban environment, avoiding other cars, and covering 60 miles (85km) in less than... Read more...

A Robot Bride by 2050?

Slimy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:27:12 +0000

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An artificial intelligence researcher predicts that robotics will make such dramatic advances in the coming years that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050. Robots will become so human-like -- having intelligent conversations,... Read more...

Bear robot rescues wounded troops

Slimy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:23:56 +0100

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The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield. The Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) can scoop up even the heaviest of casualties... Read more...

Image-guided robot called a surgical 'milestone'

Slimy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:47:47 +0100

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The NeuroArm, a surgical robot that provides magnetic resonance images of the brain was unveiled in Calgary, where researchers called it a "milestone in medical technology." The technology works in conjunction with real-time MRI to... Read more...

Robot interacts with humans and adapts to its environment

Slimy — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:19:46 +0100

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MIT researchers recently demonstrated the capabilities of a robot named Domo, designed to interact with humans and adapt to its environment. Original funding for Domo came from NASA but the project is now supported by... Read more...

Israeli Firm Unveils Portable Hunter/Killer Robot

Slimy — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:35:42 +0000

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As a part of efforts to develop weaponry that could reduce the risks to its forces from hand-to-hand fighting against Palestinian or Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, an Israeli defence firm has unveiled the VIPeR. Roughly the... Read more...

PowerUser.TV Episode 42: Childcare Robot, Vista & More

Hurmoth — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:56:49 +0100

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This week on the show Brad makes a triumphant return (i.e., he found his way out of the parking lot and back to our facility). The team updates us on Blue Security, discuss a robot... Read more...

Tiny robot to help cancer diagnosis

malebolgia — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:27:48 +0000

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British scientists are developing a tiny robot to fit inside MRI machines, which will improve the accuracy of biopsies taken to screen for prostate cancer. Needle biopsies are currently taken from the... Read more...

Robot 'guard dog' protects Wi-Fi setups

malebolgia — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:52:58 +0100

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A strange two-wheeled creature was skimming through the halls of the Alexis Park Hotel on Sunday: a robot created to sniff out network vulnerabilities. Created by two members of a loose association... Read more...

World's first robot brain surgeon developed

Toxicfume — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:37:26 +0000

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Incredible! Now we will have brain surgery's done by a computer running behind, you guessed it, Linux! A six-legged robot has been developed by Singapore experts and programmed to drill through the skull... Read more...

Japanese make human-sized robot breakthrough

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:48:28 +0000

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THE JAPANESE National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology said it has created a humanoid like robot that can carry 6KG and can get up and lie down. The robot, called the HRP-2, is... Read more...

GRACE robot tries to live up to name

Toxicfume — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:13:31 +0100

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Cheers Matt and Tonny Phang for sending this in. A group of scientists who set out to build a robot with human social skills may have actually improved on humanity: Their creation courteously... Read more...

Robot makes a dash for its life

UKer — Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:01:00 +0100

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It was reported yesterday that a robot that has been part of an experiment in learning has got too smart as it was seen attempting to escape from the building where it is based. ... Read more...

Office Robot Wars for real?

cheekymonkey — Thu, 23 May 2002 15:18:33 +0100

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Hot from E3 (from where Neowin are soon to report) is news that you can build your own battle laptop. Grabbing a brewski from the fridge is just one of the real-world... Read more...

Sony Loosens Leash on AIBO Robot Dog

Darren Bolton — Tue, 07 May 2002 10:02:23 +0100

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Who says you can't teach an old robotic dog new tricks? As of next month, Sony Corp will offer free software kits for its plastic pet dog, called AIBO, which will give... Read more...

NASA robot to use Linux, Pentium III

vincent_inactive — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:18:30 +0100

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NASA's Ames Research Center is building a "personal satellite assistant", powered by a Pentium III with the Linux operating system, to help out astronauts on space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) missions. ... Read more...