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[IFPEX 2011] Surgical Robot with force feedback from Tokyo Institute of Technology

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [23/7/2011 - 08:47] - 0 - Healthcare Robot

At IFPEX 2011, the Tokyo Institute of Technology demonstrate their latest Surgical Robot featuring the first Pneumatic force feedback system. Working on the Slave/Master principal, where a doctor can remotely operate a patient controll[...]

[IFPEX 2011] Surgical Robot with force feedback from Tokyo Institute of Technology

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QUMA a 3D Motion-Capture for 3D CG Production!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [22/7/2011 - 01:29] - 1 - Robot Software

Motion Capture has changed the way on how movies are now made and give filmmaker another tool to blow our mind on the big-screen and it is not surprising that now, Animation Companies can also rely on this fantastic tool to create uniq[...]

QUMA a 3D Motion-Capture for 3D CG Production!

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[IFPEX 2011] I shake hands with SQUSE Robot Hand

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [21/7/2011 - 07:34] - 2 - Robot

Back in 2009 at FOOM JAPAN our colleagues from DigInfo.TV capture some impressive video of SQUSE Robot hand that was manipulate sushi like a real human. Today at IFPEX 2011, we had the chance to discover SQUSE amazing robot hand and te[...]

[IFPEX 2011] I shake hands with SQUSE Robot Hand

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[IFPEX 2011] I shake hands with SQUSE Robot Hand

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [21/7/2011 - 07:34] - 0 - Robot

World’s First Soft, Flexible Touch Sensor For Robots from Touchence

By DigInfo TV - [19/7/2011 - 06:38] - 1 - Robot

Shokkaku Cube is the world’s first soft, flexible touch sensor. It has been designed to be used in robots and was developed by Touchence, a Tokyo University venture. It has a soft foam covering and can detect changes in three dim[...]

World’s First Soft, Flexible Touch Sensor For Robots from Touchence

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Mirai SANZO, Sanyo Home’s first Android-based Smart Home Robot

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [15/7/2011 - 09:18] - 0 - Household Robot

Sanyo Home, a company in the Home/Building business here in Japan introduced a new Android-Based Robot for Smart Homes : Mirai SANZO. Connected to your home network and other appliances ranging from your home solar panels, PC, Intercom[...]

Mirai SANZO, Sanyo Home’s first Android-based Smart Home Robot

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[Robotech 2011] Professor Sawada’s Talking Robot

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [13/7/2011 - 01:31] - 2 - Robot

Today at Robotech 2011, Professor Sawada from Kagawa University in Japan demonstrates its talking robot, a robot capable to mimic and reproduce the natural human speech. Thanks to a clever set of different elements that duplicate human[...]

[Robotech 2011] Professor Sawada’s Talking Robot

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LG introduces a new Vacuum Robot with Self Voice Over Diagnostic

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [1/7/2011 - 03:49] - 0 - Household Robot

LG announced this morning a new Vacuum Robot with the VR6172LVM. Beside the usual and basic autonomous vacuuming thingy and low noise design (48dB) this Vacuum Robot comes with a new Self Voice Over Diagnostic features called “Smart Di[...]

LG introduces a new Vacuum Robot with Self Voice Over Diagnostic

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Showa University announces Showa Hanako 2

By DigInfo TV - [30/6/2011 - 03:46] - 1 - Press Conference Robot

Showa University has announced Showa Hanako 2, a robot dental patient fabricated by robot maker Tmsuk. Compared with its predecessor Showa Hanako 1, this robot is designed to be more realistic, functional, and easier to use. Showa Hana[...]

Showa University announces Showa Hanako 2

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Mayekawa introduces Automatic Chicken Breast Deboning Robot

By DigInfo TV - [15/6/2011 - 04:14] - 1 - Robot

Mayekawa Manufacturing demonstrated a robot with new image processing functions that can automatically debone chicken breasts at FOOMA Japan 2011. This robot can process 1,500 chickens per hour, 10 times as fast as doing it manually. T[...]

Mayekawa introduces Automatic Chicken Breast Deboning Robot

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Cilium – Robot Hair Interface

By DigInfo TV - [30/5/2011 - 05:31] - 0 - Robot

The Shunji Yamanaka Research Group at Keio University is doing R&D on an interface that copies the movement of cilium. Cilia are microscopic hairs on the surface of a cell which can react in unison, and are used by some microorgani[...]

Via Kei University

Yaskawa Robot Lightsaber duel… The Force is strong in these ones!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [11/5/2011 - 11:23] - 4 - Robot

At this year ICRA or International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai, the Japanese company Yasakawa demonstrates its robots skills by performing a “real” lightsaber duel between two of its Motoman industrial robots. Luc[...]

Yaskawa Robot Lightsaber duel… The Force is strong in these ones!

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ASIMO to make its St. Louis debut

By Tom LESKIN - [28/4/2011 - 01:05] - 0 - Robot

If you’re a fan of Honda‘s world-renowned advanced humanoid robot ASIMO, which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, it will be making its St. Louis debut at the FIRST Championship from April 28-30. At FIRST, ano[...]

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Kondo’s new KMR-M6 Robot is the Tachikoma of the poor

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [11/4/2011 - 04:22] - 0 - Robot

Kondo introduced last week a new spider robot in Japan the KMR-M6. Available online at 76,800 Yen this new spring supporter hexapedal robot Tachikoma like spider has been primarily built for student engineers or scientist to work on a [...]

Kondo’s new KMR-M6 Robot is the Tachikoma of the poor

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Creepynoids meet-up, when Geminoids of the world finally meet

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [8/4/2011 - 02:19] - 2 - Robot

Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro is a pioneer, but like every pioneer is works, including Elfoid, are far from being well understood by other, but when Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro and Henrik Scharfe meets with their “Geminoids” for a surrealist “rendez-v[...]

Creepynoids meet-up, when Geminoids of the world finally meet

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Robot Institute’s MediBot set to enter Korean Healthcare world

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [8/4/2011 - 02:18] - 0 - Healthcare Robot

The Korean based company ROBOT Institute that develop and manufacturer MediBot, announced that its little Robot will soon be available on the market. MediBot is a one meter tall robot dedicated to help and support patients in different[...]

Robot Institute’s MediBot set to enter Korean Healthcare world

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Search & rescue robots, the high tech tsunami heroes

By Ike LEUS - [23/3/2011 - 05:56] - 5 - Robot

Japan’s rescue teams were just not enough after the razing tsunami and a massive earthquake brought destruction to many coastline villages. The manned teams can use searchdogs and perform basic first aid operations such as search[...]

Search & rescue robots, the high tech tsunami heroes

Via Kyoto U

The Future is NAO (Now). Kinect Controlled NAO Robot and Aldebaran’s Prototype charging station

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [7/3/2011 - 03:19] - 2 - Press Conference Robot

This weekend I had the chance and opportunity to attend Aldebaran’s developer program meet-up in Tokyo and to check in the “Flesh” their awesome robot NAO. If you are a bit curious about Robotics I am sure that you have already heard a[...]

The Future is NAO (Now). Kinect Controlled NAO Robot and Aldebaran’s Prototype charging station

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Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro, Actroid’s father gave birth to another creepy robot: Elfoid

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [4/3/2011 - 03:29] - 0 - Robot

Don’t get me wrong, Hiroshi Ishiguro is a real genius, but you have to admit that its research on robots and its creations could be sometime puzzling, and today’s new Elfoid is no exception! This tiny little Telepresence robot is in fa[...]

Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro, Actroid’s father gave birth to another creepy robot: Elfoid

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ZMP Japan releases a new e-Nuvo WHEEL Robot in Japan

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [17/2/2011 - 12:49] - 0 - Robot

ZMP last week introduced in Japan another of its creation: the e-Nuvo WHEEL designed to research as well as physics and engineering students. Made on a simple yet clever design, ZMP new e-Nuvo WHEEL is a compact 50cm tall robot that ca[...]

ZMP Japan releases a new e-Nuvo WHEEL Robot in Japan

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Humanoid Robot learns to Clean a Whiteboard, what’s next? World Domination?

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [15/2/2011 - 04:01] - 0 - Robot

Sure this little Fujitsu Robot (HOAP-2) may not look as exciting as the terminator but it too can be very useful! A team of researchers from Italy and Japan, lead by Dr. Petar Kormushev, has taught a Japanese humanoid robot how to clea[...]

Humanoid Robot learns to Clean a Whiteboard, what’s next? World Domination?

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Robot are useful after all, Nec PaPeRo help to elderly to be more active

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [10/2/2011 - 12:36] - 0 - Robot

NEC has published this week a paper on a trial test they made late 2010 where they gave for a month a bunch of PaPeRo robots to some Japanese senior citizens. The goal was here to check the impact of robot within this group of people, [...]