Uncategorized – RobotorY

Quand on évoque le thème des robots, on pense souvent à des robots de forme humanoïde… puis viennent ensuite les robots qui roulent et les robots qui serpentent, mais avez vous déjà imaginé un robot cubique ?

Tone-deaf robots teach each other to sing, passionately butcher a Happy Birthday rendition

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 28th 2009 at 1:38AM

After what must’ve been a few painful minutes of rehearsal, a few robots built by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research have performed what we assume to be their first and last paid gig: a rendition of Happy Birthday to celebrate the 100th of the Science Museum in the UK.

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Kondo bot battles rage in Japan, vision of humanity’s imminent destruction crystallize

Kondo bot battles rage in Japan, vision of humanity's imminent destruction crystallize

by Joshua Topolsky, posted May 10th 2009 at 4:16PM

You may be familiar with the modular line of Kondo robots sold in Japan […]

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star – MIT News Office

David Chandler, MIT News Office

April 9, 2008

A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms. Called Nexi, it is aimed at a range of applications for personal robots and human-robot teamwork.
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