Asus, the Taiwanese electronics corporation has launched a new robot at Computex 2016, called Asus Zenbo. According to the company, this robot, which costs $599, can do every household work imaginable and…
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Terrifying robot granddad “Eric” to live again, thanks to museum Kickstarter campaign
Visitors to the London Science Museum will be in for a blast from the past, when a planned exhibition of 500 years of robotics kicks off in 2017. The exhibition will feature…
COTSbot to hunt down menacing crown-of-thorns starfish in Great Barrier Reef
Here’s how to tackle the menace of crown-of-thorns starfish – a robot, state of the art animal recognition engine, and 200 lethal shots of bile salts! Queensland University of Technology researchers have developed…
Robotic exoskeleton helps paralysed man walk
In a major breakthrough, 39-year-old Irish athlete Mark Pollock, who lost sight 16 years ago and had been paralyzed from the waist down for last four years, has regained enough voluntary control…
Toyota’s Human Support Robot wants to help out as a care worker for the elderly
Toyota has introduced its Human Support Robot (HSR) as the company’s answer to the ever-increasing demand for care workers for the elderly in societies like Japan. The company cites official statistics from…
Robot as a learning companion; lends a hand in teaching
Researchers over at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne have presented a new teaching robot dubbed CoWriter that lends a hand at teaching by playing the role of a learning companion. Presented at…
MIT Researchers’ new robot inspired by Cheetah!
Researchers at the Massachusetts of Technology (MIT) are reportedly working on a robot that takes inspiration from the world’s fastest land animal and operates using video game technology. The robot dubbed ‘the…
Foxconn to deploy 10000 Foxbots robots on iPhone 6 production lines
The company has shelled out $20,000 to $25,000 for each robot, which is estimated to assemble at least 300,000 devices per year!
SoftBank’s Pepper: ‘Affectionate’ robot with ‘a heart, emotions’
Just like your friend, when you need help or when you are sad, Pepper will know to help you around and even give you a hug!!