Robot Learns to Serve Tea
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Honda showed off its Asimo robot's newest capabilities: pushing a cart and serving a tray of tea--graciously.
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RunBot, a 9-inch-high machine, can adapt to different terrain, adjusting its gait and posture after a few learning experiences.
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A UK biotechnology firm is developing a robot to grow hair follicle cells for use in treating baldness.
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Game animator I-Wei Huang is getting rave reviews for his steam-powered robots. How does he hack RC kits with steam engines? And will he ever make a rideable robot? By Griffin Wright.
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Robots that recognize your voice or remember what you look like. Robots that play musical instruments. Robots that shake your hand and know up to 10,000 words -- in Japanese.
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A Japanese firm said it has created a jellyfish-shaped robot that can alert homeowners to burglars or housesit for their pets -- and, when not at work, lounge about and be "beautiful."
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Electronic versions of the rodents' bristles could one day help bots inspect oil pipelines and explore remote locations from the deep sea to outer space.
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Carnegie-Mellon professor is working to create swarms of tiny robots that can assume any shape.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surfaces on FCC Web site documents.
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The gutter-wrenching Looj remote-control robot gets rid of wet leaf build-up.
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Whether mopping up a battlefield or living room floor, the robot maker is working on vehicle to get the job done.
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Researchers in Japan make robot sommelier -- a mechanized wine snob that identifies dozens of wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres. It names and describes the wine ("buttery chardonnay" or "full-bodied shiraz") and picks a cheese to go with it.
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Researchers are working out the rules for a future code of social behaviour in human-robot interaction.
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Head-Aimed Remote Viewer (HARV) gives robot drivers a better view.
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A security vendor is warning of a malware in the form of a flirtatious robot.
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You won't find these mechanical mixologists working the rail at your neighborhood gin joint. But these sometimes-sassy robotic bartenders aren't shy about strutting their stuff at Austria's Roboexotica Festival. Photos by John Borland.
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Robots are set to become increasingly familiar companions in homes by 2007, says a United Nations survey. Seven times more robots will helping us out with the cleaning, security and entertainment in three