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Robotic age poses ethical dilemma

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:28:55 CET

No sexy wife robot for South Korea moral censors! ASIMOV'S LAWS OF ROBOTICS A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

How to make more money with Google Adsense?

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:33:32 CEST

More and more people are turning to Google Adsense to generate an additional income, it's free to join and easy, so why not? Communities are sharing their revenues between its contributing members, and it works!

Sexy Actroid greets people in four languages!

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:27:04 CET

ACTROID, a female-type reception robot that has been designed as an Android receptionist bearing a striking resemblance to a woman with a good command of four languages with the objective of promoting a System Development toward Practical Use under the NEDO 2004 Next-Generation Robot Commercialization Project.

A young boy that will be able to help robots

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:45:27 CET

There is this 8 years old boy in South Korea who is a genius in maths and physics, he was born in 1997 and for sure he will be a great help for the future of robots!

RI-MAN : a robot to lift and carry people!

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:32:11 CET

The bio-mimetic control research center of RIKEN is promoting basic research on the flexible and dynamic motor functions of biological systems.

The goal is to create advanced engineering systems such as a soft human interactive robot.

The robot developed here is named RI-MAN. RI-MAN exhibits the skill and ability to realize human care and welfare tasks. RI-MAN will become an invaluable partner robot.

Researchers

* Environment Adaptive Robotic Systems Laboratory Tadashi ODASHIMA, Masaki ONISHI, Fumihiko ASANO, Kenji TAHARA, Kentaro TAKAGI

* Biologically Integrative Sensors Laboratory Yo KATO, Hiromichi NAKASHIMA, Yoshihiro NAKABO (AIST)

* Motor Systems Control Theory Laboratory Yuichi KOBAYASHI

Project Leaders

* Zhiwei LUO, Toshiharu MUKAI, Shigeyuki HOSOE

Billings wins robotics challenge

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:24:10 CET

When Billings first entered the robotics competition two years ago, the school finished dead last. "It was a shock to us just to see this and it was difficult to do," recalls Billings science teacher Brian Visser. "But the kids weren't despondent; they were just happy to be part of it."

Robots for science: Check out Kamens cool competition

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:07:10 CET

IF YOU SEE an army of robots in downtown Manchester today and Saturday, dont panic, its not a Steven Spielberg fantasy come horribly to life. Its a Dean Kamen fantasy come to life, which is much better.

Robots will compete with human masters of Chinese chess

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:04:02 CET

China will host the first competition between robots and humans, it's only at Chinese chess though, not yet at Kung-fu or Karate.