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McSleepy and DaVinci are robots that done a surgery in removing a man prostate. This surgery is done in McGill University Health Center, Canada. What makes it big news is that this surgery is the first ever surgery done by robots. The robots have a different specialty. McSleepy is a special robot that focused on anesthesia. While DaVinci, is a special robot that do the surgery. The process of the surgery is done in a strict supervision. The ro…
Piscine Bahamas is a company that works in swimming pool maintenance service, not only maintaining the pool this company also provides pool kits. For the maintenance works this company has different way. They offer robots to maintenance consumers’ pool. There are three robots offered here, they are Dolphin Dynamic Plus Comfort, Dolphin Magic Robot, and Polaris 280 Robot. All the robots from Piscine Bahamas designed to create easy way in maintain…
Located at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah on June 2 and 4, 2011, there was Polish Rover Robots challenge for Mars. The Polish Rover Robots were Copernicus, Scorpio, and Magma 2, which became the participants of this challenge. Polish Rover Robots for Mars were addressed for college students to design and build the next generation of Mars exploration rovers, the next generation rover on mars. This year’s challenge was divided int…
Here is the last in lines of INTRA’s robots that canceled to be sent to Japan to help the nuclear leak handling in their damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Its robot’s name is ERELT that stans for Teleoperated Relay Robot. The main mission of this teleoperated robot is to relay transmissions of radio from and towards other robots. Beside that this robot could also be used in improving the radioelectrical coverage. Other missions that could p…
There were three robots that belong to a family of underwater robot that developed under Aqua Project. There were robot Aqua that developed in McGill at Mechatronics Locomotion Lab, Ramius, and Kroy that built identically to Aqua. Aqua was an underwater robot that has six legs and flippers and ability to swim and dive. In January 2007 these three underwater robots were brought to Barbados for trials. They performed in an open water trial that ro…
Lot of robots is competing to find a doll inside a box in a competition named RoboCup Rescue. This competition challenges those robots in navigating and mapping a complex 150 square meter of replicated disaster area. The dolls wiggle around, make noise, release CO2, and get warm, create condition like real babies or people in an emergency condition. The scores are counted by calculating how many dolls they can find and how accurate the robot can…
Animal babies are funny and cute almost for all people in this world, perhaps this idea that brought Japan’s toy robot company CCP created Baby Animals. There are baby pandas, baby ice bears, baby tigers and baby lions. CCP is a part of Bandai Namco Group that export toy outside Nippon. These robots are not sophisticated in designs. Each of robots almost has same ability and components. They are equipped with four sensors and two buttons. The ba…
It’s like a common thing that today robotics are already used to help rescue worker find victims of disaster. Like what just happened in Haiti lately after the strike of earthquake. There were teams of robots that dispatched to Haiti. For example was Global Hawk UAV that used to take images to provide imagery for rescue teams. This imagery would be something valuable for rescue teams to locate the humanitarian effort. What made it different in H…
UEA as big country in Asia with its architectural and skyscrapers seems interested to hire advanced cleaning robot to clean their buildings. And so Serbot AG, a Swiss robotic service company, looks Dubai as a potential place for their robots cleaner Gekko and CleanAnt. Gekko and CleanAnt are Serbot AG robots that ideal to be used to clean buildings like what Dubai have. These robots are advanced robot that has complete system that designed speci…
It has been shown on television a new commersial advertisment that used robots as the athlete. This commersial advertisement is advertising a new lubricant from Total. The advertisement shows robots battling in marathon and of course the winner is the one that used Total’s lubricant. This advertisement video taken in three different location, Lebanon, Dubai, and Brazil, and tagged with “make your engine an athlete of the road”. Cool commercial c…
These cute owls USB robot is coming from Japan. This cute little owl could be best partner that stands on your laptop monitor with the help of clip. Connect this USB Owl robot into your computer and it will be a small cute fellow. It could blink its eyes or move its head side to side. This realistic moving Owl USB has three moods, active, mellow, and sleeping. Adorable simple robotic item that could decorate your monitor in different way.
Here is one of the results of carefully crafted furniture, the Walking Table. The Walking Table shows the nice work of mechanism. Like the Walking Bookcase this furniture succeed in mimicking the natural walking motion. Jump off the ordinary static furniture this furniture need to be pushed to get walk on its beautiful mechanism. This walnut furniture is available for sale and created in limited edition only. Each of the Walking Table made of selected materials that crafted carefully.
Future concept of cargo or luggage transportation is something outside land transportation but flying robot carrier. Cargonaut is a modern concept of robot carrier that help you move your groceries or luggage and leave you freely to do something else or just enjoy your travel. With this new concept future transit will be easier than ever. Matthias Schmiedbauer designed this conceptual flying robot with the idea that came from old fashion way of delivering letter with pigeon. But of course different with pigeon Cargonaut is more powerful to bring havier loads around.
One of the main resources on Christmas Island is phosphate. Phosphate mining on this place had been started since 1897 until present. Perhaps this prospect of phosphate mining became the main reason of Accuweight to offer their industrial robots to Christmas Island. It was robot model Fuji-Ace EC-201 with 1600 cycles per hour that being offered. This robot model has a high speed in palletizing bags of phosphates into sling ropes in shipping load for transportation. This robot came in complete pneumatically system like gripper, friendly touch screen display control panel, servo motor, and the most important heavy duty support base.
T2-5 is a shop promotion robot that used by the Aeon Mall Fukuoka. This robot used by Fukuoka Mall not only to promote their shopping mall Lucle, but also to entertain customers there with commercial film and entertainment visual movie. This robot was developed by Tmsuk for Aeon Mall Fukuoka and equipped with special components to get his character of promotion robot in public space. QR code reader was equipped in this robot. This system enabled T2-5 to recognize person and make simple private communication like calling their name or celebrating their birthday. While for the entertainment feature the robot equipped with visual projector and speaker to display movie or film.
Here is one unique concept of restaurant that probably you should try if you were travelling to China. The restaurant located in Jiang the Shandong Province of China and named itself the Dalu Rebot Restaurant. Dalu Rebot could serve about hundred of customers with the help of robots as their receptionists and waitresses. Totally there are eight robots in this restaurant. There are two receptionist robots, two drink serving robots, two small serving table robots, and another two robots. As you could could see from the pictures bellow there are patterns on the floor that robot will take follow.
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