With a title that stood for 'Rossum's Universal Robots,' this play by Czech intellectual Karel Čapek introduced the word 'robot' to the English language.
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Elektro, a 7-foot-tall, 265-pound humanoid robot, was first exhibited at the New York World's Fair. He could 'speak' by playing tracks from a 78-rpm record player.
Delivering flowers and other friendly gestures made the film's Robby the Robot a campy cult favorite.
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ASU on the cutting edge of robotics | ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact
Twenty-five faculty members at Arizona State University are researching the cutting edge of robotics. Seven of them have won the NSF CAREER award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.
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Some of their research has gone out into the world and become reality, like a prosthetic hand that can feel . Some of it, like a flying swarm of tiny robots, is a long way off.
Daniel Aukes , an assistant professor at the Polytechnic campus, is leading the Kaiteki Project .
Can Robots That Work With People Ever Be Safe? | Mind Matters
It can be tempting to think of risk as an either/or situation — either your application is safe or it isn’t. In reality, risk is a sliding scale and you can never get rid of all risks completely. You can only know the true risk of a particular task by performing an adequate risk assessment. You need to do this whether the robot is collaborative or not.
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The reality is that cobots have always been high-performance robots suitable for a range of industrial applications. Instead of being lesser robots, as some people mistakenly believe, cobots are often fully-fledged industrial robots with added functionality to make them safer.
Behind those dancing robots, scientists had to bust a move
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The man who designed some of the world's most advanced dynamic robots was on a daunting mission: programming his creations to dance to the beat with a mix of fluid, explosive and expressive motions that are almost human.
The results? Almost a year and half of choreography, simulation, programming and upgrades that were capped by two days of filming to produce a video running at less than 3 minutes. The clip, showing robots dancing to the 1962 hit "Do You Love Me?" by The Contours, was an instant hit on social media , attracting more than 23 million views during the first week.
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Robots were dreamt up 100 years ago – why haven't our fears about them changed since?
Michael Szollosy receives funding from Wellcome Trust and Innovate UK. He is also co-founder of Cyberselves Universal, Ltd.
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A genius but completely mad scientist – with the backing of a ruthlessly greedy corporation – creates a sentient robot. The scientist's intentions for the robot are noble: to help us work, to save us from mundane tasks, to serve its human masters.
But the scientist is over-confident, and blind to the dangers of his new invention. Those that prophesied such warnings are dismissed as luddites, or hopeless romantics not in step with the modern world. But the threat is real: the intelligent, artificial being is not content being a compliant slave.
Designing customized "brains" for robots | EurekAlert! Science News
Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman.
Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don't move quickly. "The hang up is what's going on in the robot's head," she adds.
Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Neuman has found a way to fight this mismatch between a robot's "mind" and body. The method, called robomorphic computing, uses a robot's physical layout and intended applications to generate a customized computer chip that minimizes the robot's response time.
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Surgical robotics that scan, hear, feel and act | EurekAlert! Science News
Surgeons make optimal use of all their senses to master difficult operations. When visibility is poor, they locate anatomy by palpation or they hear the optimal moment to stop drilling. Who would, today, entrust the own body to a surgeon that uses only direct vision, neglecting all the other information? Yet this is what the most advanced, semi-autonomous surgical robots of today focus on. Similar to autopilots, the current robots follow a pre-defined path solely based on medical image data.
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