Tag Archives: Robot

Robots Swarms Robots are groing in number and they are learning to cooperate. As the number of cooperative robots involved in a specific task grows, their coordination becomes more and more tricky. However, we have examples in nature where seemingly low-intelligence entities manage to cooperate achieving impressive result as a …

Possibly the biggest impact of the Industrial Revolution has been on … agriculture. By using machines for farming it made possible to increase productivity 100 folds (both in terms of yield per acre and much more in terms of human work to till, farm, harvest the field). The employment in …

As I pointed out we have plenty of technology, and more to come, for remote monitoring of our health parameters and remote diagnoses. However, this can help only up to a certain point, beyond that you need “on-site” intervention. However, this on-site doesn’t need to be the doctor site, it …

“I like it”, and that is basically it!  When you taste a new dish, or a usual one, at home or at a restaurant you are not going into very many details on what you like, why you like it …. you eat and if you are happy … it …

Telephoto in a photographer lingo is about using a special lens to get closer to a subject still keeping your distance, It can be an artist on the stage or a lion in the savannah. In the first case you may not be able to get close to the artist, …

e) Instant delivery Logistic chains are one of the marvel of today’s world. They work (most of the times) seamlessly and are so effective that you can get your delivery within a single working day (it does not work for any place and for any type of goods but I …

Sometimes technology goes beyond imagination and this is surely one of those cases. A team of researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia have managed to create a set of inks that can be used by a 3D printer to manufacture solar cells 1.7µm …

This August workers at Ford’s Michigan Van Dyke Transmission plant are seeing two four legged robots, Spot and Fluffy, walk around the plant sniffing with their laser at all objects like high-tech dogs. The robots have been designed and produced by Boston Dynamics and are now on the market for …

We have already seen robots cooking. Robots flipping hamburger (meet Flippy at Caliburger in California), others having a menu of up to 600 dishes (Robochef cooks Indian, Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine) other can prepare cocktails (Tipsy has 60 cocktail recipes up to its sleeve…). We have even seen a fully …

After the success of Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner of the last decade, Paolo Pirjanian -former CTO of iRobot the manufacturer of Roomba, joined forces with Maja Matarić, USC robotics professors to create a successful social robot. The keyword here is “successful”. We have seen quite a number of social …