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Human robot T-HR3 supports people in daily life

Toyota's T-HR3 human robot is designed to help people safely, both at home and in the medical field. Helpful robots that can live and work together with people.

Cleaning robot for ships, Fleet Cleaner

The Rotterdam Port Fund is an independent investment fund that invests in innovative and innovative port-related companies that focus on sustainability and invests in energy transition in cleaning robot Fleet Cleaner.

The Everyday Robot project

The Everyday Robot project performed by Alphabet's X group is making robots that can safely operate in human environments, where things change every day, people show up unexpectedly, and obstacles appear out of nowhere. In order for robots to be useful day to day, they need to understand and make sense of the spaces where we live and work, and adapt to them as they gain experience. This requires new forms of machine intelligence.

Will robotdog Aibo become you smart assistant at home

Sony says you can now use a web-based API to program its adorable Aibo robot dog to do new tricks — and you might even be able to make it your smart home’s best friend. Who needs Alexa or Google home if a nice robot dog might be able to help you out around the house instead. Sony is inviting developers to make “services and applications” that can work with Aibo.

Sensitive skin for a complete robot

Sensitive synthetic skin allows robots to feel their own body and environment, a crucial ability to be in close contact with people. Inspired by human skin, a team from the Technical University of Munich has developed a system that combines artificial skin with control algorithms and is used to create the first autonomous humanoid robot with full body artificial skin. Each cell is equipped with a microprocessor and sensors to detect contact, acceleration, proximity and temperature. With such an artificial skin, robots can perceive their environment in much more detail and with more sensitivity. This does not help them to move more safely and work near people.

Samsung mobile robot with smart assistant

The Samsung mobile robot consists of a ball with a ring around it, which can rotate independently of each other. A touchscreen display is also placed in the ring, which will also have a fingerprint scanner or an iris sensor. Other important components that are integrated in the outer ring are an audio module and a battery. The ball will be equipped with artificial intelligence and smart loudspeaker.

Alexa Amazon voice assistant gets more applications

Amazon the creator of Alexa, a smart speech assistant comes up with multiple applications and improvements to existing products to stimulate use. A good example is Show and Tell with Amazon Alexa. For example, the blind and visually impaired can hold things from the kitchen in front of the machine's camera, such as the Amazon Echo, after which Alexa can tell you exactly what you are holding. Amazon uses both computer vision and machine learning.

Boston dynamics makes itself heard

Spot, the 4-legged robot from the robot company Boston Dynamics, will soon be on sale, but not for everyone. Companies that want the robot have to come up with a good plan before they can order the robot.

Medisana home care application on Temi robot platform

The health care specialist medisana presents its first home care robot on the German market. It supports people to live independently at home. With smart services and artificial intelligence, the home care robot makes everyday life easier – and increases safety thanks to various health and emergency services.

MRI-guided biopsy robot for patients with breast cancer

Machnet Medical Robotics is a new UTwente spinoff that focuses on developing a robot for MRI-guided biopsies. The application is primarily focused on taking biopsies of early-stage breast cancer.

Vex exoskeleton from Hyundai

Hyundai has developed a new exoskeleton - the Vest EXoskeleton or VEX. The exoskeleton can be worn as a vest and is intended to support employees in the (car) industry in the heavy work they do above all. The VEX reduces fatigue and increases the physical strength of the user by imitating the movements of the joints and supporting the activities under heavy load.

Beam, gets acquired by Blue Ocean Robotics

Beam, a telepresence robot with a big screen that a person can remotely control and use to communicate via video, became a breakthrough success in the world of robotics in part because of its role in helping high-profile, but movement-limited, people Blue Ocean Robotics has acquired all the assets and rights associated with the Beam telepresence robot from Suitable Technologies Inc.

Robot should increase interest in Buddhism

In an attempt to introduce Buddhism to a young audience last week, the world's first Buddhist robot was activated in the 400-year-old Kodaiji temple in Kyoto, Japan, Mindar. The Kodaiji temple hopes that Mindar will be able to reach younger generations in a way that traditional monks cannot.

Amazon delivery robot Scout to work

Scout, Amazon's delivery robot, starts delivering parcels after a successful small-scale test. From Monday to Friday, the robot drives around the Irvine region in California. The reason Amazon starts in sunny California is because of the weather. It doesn't rain much and the sun shines a lot, so there's little chance that the robot will have to drive in all weathers to deliver a package. In Seattle, where the robot was tested, it was different.

TIAGo service robot ready for two-armed tasks

PAL Robotics announced last month its TIAGo++, a robot that includes two arms with seven degrees of freedom each. TIAGo is used in diverse European-funded projects where end users from different sectors, from healthcare to industry, are involved.

These are the Toyota Robots for 'Tokyo 2020'

As a global partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Toyota aims to offer mobility solutions that go beyond the provision of official vehicles. One of the ways they do this is by participating in the "Tokyo 2020 Robot Project", a project led by the Tokyo Organising Committee that brings together the Tokyo Metropolitan government and the games' partners with experts in robotics. During 'Tokyo 2020', Toyota robots will be used to support people's mobility. By helping people make their dreams come true, the brand believes it will be able to further contribute to the experience and success of the games ahead.

Robotic prosthesis with feeling, luke arm

Research into robotic prostheses is progressing by leaps and bounds, but a feeling of touch is difficult to overcome. This feeling helps us, among other things, to keep our grip power under control. Researchers at Utah University, among others, have developed a new method that mimics the feeling of a real hand, which is vital when it comes to fine motor control for handling delicate objects, according to the team in the journal Science Robotics.

Humanoid robots for patient simulation in medical training

A team of researchers and engineers from Gaumard Scientific have developed a robot that provides a more realistic situation for medical training. The robot, called HAL, looks like a boy and also behaves like a boy. He can follow a finger with his eyes, answer questions, cry for his mother and experience anaphylactic shock.

Are we going to connect our brains to computers

Elon Musk wants to connect the human brain to computers. A first step in this plan is to implant fine wires into the cerebral cortex. The operation, which must be as safe and fast as having your eyes lasered, will be carried out by a robot. People with a disability; The goal is initially to insert brain implants into the brains of, for example, paralyzed people, and to enable them to operate computers and telephones. It should also be able to restore speech, vision and hearing.

Amazon High-End Echo and Home Robot update

Amazon originally intended to reveal the robot, known internally as “Vesta,” as early as this year, but the machine isn’t ready to be mass-produced, the people said. While Amazon could choose never to release the robot, in recent months it has pulled engineers from other projects to work on it , Maybe a signal the company plans to sell Vesta at some point. It’s unclear what tasks the Amazon robot might perform. People familiar with the project speculated last year that the Vesta could be a sort of mobile Alexa, accompanying customers in parts of their home where they don’t have Echo devices.

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